Goa: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Goa on December 19th and attend an event marking Goa liberation day celebrations at the ‘Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium’. PM Modi will felicitate freedom fighters and veterans of ‘Operation Vijay’, undertaken by the Indian armed forces to liberate Goa from Portuguese rule, and will also inaugurate multiple development projects, including the renovated Fort Aguada jail museum, super speciality block at the Goa Medical College and new South Goa district hospital.
Besides these, the prime minister will inaugurate an aviation skill development centre at the Mopa airport and a gas-insulated substation at Dabolim-Navelim in Margao. He will also lay the foundation stone for the India International University of Legal Education and Research of the Bar Council of India Trust at Goa, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said.
Goa is among five states which are headed for assembly polls early next year. The PMO noted that it has been Modi’s constant endeavour to improve medical infrastructure and provide top class medical facilities across the country. In line with this vision, the super-speciality block at the Goa Medical College and Hospital has been constructed at a cost of over Rs 380 crore under the ‘Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana’ scheme, it said.
Modi will also release ‘My Stamp’ depicting the ‘Hutatma Smarak’ at Patradevi, which salutes the great sacrifices made by those who made the supreme sacrifice in the Goa liberation movement. A ‘Meghdoot Post Card’ depicting a collage of pictures of different events during the movement will also be presented to the prime minister, the statement said. He will also distribute awards to the best panchayat/municipality, ‘Swayampurna Mitras’ and beneficiaries of ‘Swayampurna Goa Programme’.