Historic Moment as PM Modi Launches AIIMS in Rajkot, Gujarat

The first All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Gujarat was opened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday in Rajkot. At AIIMS Rajkot’s opening, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya were in attendance. Giving Gujarat a brand-new AIIMS! Dedicated to the nation, Prime Minister @NarendraModi dedicated AIIMS, Rajkot “On X, Mansukh Mandaviya posted. Along with other hospital administrators and the Union Health Minister, PM Modi visited the facility prior to its official opening. In a video conference in December 2020, Prime Minister Modi laid the institution’s foundation. Rs 1,195 crore was spent building the hospital.

In addition to numerous other health projects across the nation, the statement stated that PM Modi will open a 300-bed satellite center of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical and Educational Research (PGIMER) in Sangrur, Punjab, and a medical college of JIPMER at Karaikal, Puducherry. The “Sudarshan Setu,” which connects the Beyt Dwarka island and the Okha mainland and was constructed at a cost of about Rs 980 crore, was officially opened by the prime minister earlier in the day. According to a statement from the PMO, the 2.32 km long cable-stayed bridge is the longest of its kind in the nation. According to the statement, Sudarshan Setu has a distinctive design with a footpath flanked on both sides by pictures of Lord Krishna and Bhagavad Gita verses.

It also has solar panels installed on the upper portions of the footpath, generating one megawatt of electricity, the statement said.
Before the construction of the bridge, pilgrims had to rely on boat transport to reach Beyt Dwarka.
PM Modi kicked off his two-day Gujarat visit with a roaring roadshow in Jamnagar on Saturday.