Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Sunday inaugurate the 'Smriti Van' memorial and launch projects worth Rs 4,400 crore at Bhuj in Gujarat's Kutch district during the second day of his visit to the state where the Assembly elections are due later this year.
The PM will also lead a three kilometre long roadshow in Bhuj while on way to the Smriti Van. The Smriti Van memorial has been built in nearly 470 acre area to celebrate the spirit of resilience following the death of 13,000 people during the 2001 earthquake which had its epicentre in Bhuj.
The memorial carries names of the people who lost their lives during the earthquake. It also has a state-of-the-art Smriti Van Earthquake Museum, as per a government release.
The museum showcases Gujarat's topography, rebuilding initiatives and success stories after the 2001 earthquake, and informs about different kinds of disasters and future readiness for any type of disaster.
It also has a block to relive the experience of an earthquake with the help of a 5D simulator and another block for people to pay homage to the lost souls, the release said.
PM Modi will also inaugurate a Kutch branch canal of the Sardar Sarovar Project to provide irrigation and drinking water in 948 villages and 10 towns of the district.
He will also inaugurate a new automatic milk processing and packing plant of Sarhad Dairy, a Regional Science Centre at Bhuj, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Convention Centre at Gandhidham, Veer Bal Smarak at Anjar, and Bhuj 2 substation at Nakhatrana.
The PM will later address a programme marking the commemoration of 40 years of Suzuki in India at the Mahatma Mandir convention centre in Gandhinagar, where he will lay the foundation stones of Suzuki Motor Gujarat Electric Vehicle Battery Manufacturing Facility at Hansalpur in Gujarat and Maruti Suzuki's upcoming vehicle manufacturing facility at Kharkhoda in Haryana.
