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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to sojourn Assam connected January 17 and 18 to enactment successful a wide creation lawsuit and execute an initiation ceremonial for the Kaziranga elevated corridor project.
This volition beryllium his 2nd sojourn to the poll-bound State successful little than a month.
According to an authoritative statement, the Prime Minister volition be Bagurumba Dwhou 2026, a wide people creation of the Bodo assemblage astatine the Arjun Bhogeswar Baruah Sports Complex aft landing successful Guwahati connected Saturday (January 17, 2026). More than 10,000 Bodo artists from 81 Assembly constituencies crossed 23 districts of the State are expected to instrumentality portion successful this mega event.
Mr Modi had witnessed akin wide taste events astatine the aforesaid venue earlier. The archetypal was a mega Bihu lawsuit successful April 2023, and the 2nd was the Jhumoir Binandini successful February 2025.
₹6,950 crore Kaziranga project
On Sunday (January 18, 2026), the Prime Minister volition execute the ‘bhoomi pujan’ for the Kaziranga elevated corridor task astatine Kaliabor successful cardinal Assam’s Nagaon district. Worth implicit ₹6,950 crore, the four-lane task is envisaged to guarantee the uninterrupted question of animals, trim human-wildlife conflict, and heighten determination connectivity.
“The 86 km agelong Kaziranga corridor is an environmentally conscious National Highway project. It volition diagnostic 35 km of elevated wildlife corridor that volition walk done Kaziranga National Park, 21 km bypass section, and 30 km widening of the existing road conception of NH-715 from 2 to 4 lanes,” the connection said.
“The task aims to amended determination connectivity portion ensuring extortion of the park’s affluent biodiversity,” it said.
During the programme, the Prime Minister volition emblem disconnected 2 caller Amrit Bharat Express trains, 1 betwixt Guwahati (Kamakhya) and Rohtak and the different betwixt Dibrugarh and Lucknow (Gomti Nagar).
