President Draupadi Murmu on two-day visit to Madhya Pradesh on November 15-16

 

Bhopal: President Draupadi  Murmu will be on a two-day visit to Madhya Pradesh on November 15-16. She will attend the Tribal Pride Day state-level programme at Shahdol on November 15 and will lay the virtual foundation of two projects from Bhopal. President Murmu will attend the Women’s Self-Help Group Conference on November 16 at Motilal Nehru Stadium, Bhopal.
As per the schedule, President Murmu will reach Jabalpur on November 15 at 11.30 am and will reach Shahdol at 12.25 pm. She will participate in the Tribal Pride Day celebrations in Shahdol from 1.45 pm. The President will leave Shahdol at 3 pm and will reach Jabalpur at 3.55 pm and then Bhopal at 5.25 pm.
President Murmu will virtually lay the foundation of the Ratapani-Obaidullaganj-Itarsi Four lane Project (NH-46) of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and the Maximum Microbial Containment Laboratory (BSL-4) at the Defence Research and Development Institute, Gwalior, of the Ministry of Defence from Raj Bhavan at 6.30 pm.
President Murmu will attend the Women’s Self-Help Group Conference on November 16 at 11.30 am at Motilal Nehru Stadium. She will leave for Delhi by plane from Bhopal at 12.55 pm.
TRIBAL PRIDE DAY: President Smt. Murmu will attend the state level programme of Tribal Pride Day at Lalpur, Shahdol on Bhagwan Birsa Munda Jayanti. President will officially enforce the PESA act in Madhya Pradesh at this occasion. Governor Mangubhai Patel, Chief Minister hivraj Singh Chouhan, Union Minister for Tribal Affairs  Arjun Munda will be present.

Upgradation of Ratapani Obaidullaganj-Itarsi Highway to four lane

This project is a part of NH-46 (old NH-69) Obaidullaganj to Betul Inter Corridor route in Bharatmala Pariyojana, which provides connectivity from Bhopal to Nagpur. 12.38 km block of this route comes under the Ratapani Wildlife Sanctuary and the Ratapani block is an incomplete part of the Bhopal-Nagpur Corridor. The project includes all the mitigation measures needed to protect wildlife and the environment. The provisions of animal underpass in the wildlife sanctuaries area will facilitate movement of wildlife.

The total length of the project is 12.38 km. Its construction will cost Rs 417 crore 51 lakh. The construction work of the project will be completed in a period of 18 months. 

In order to reduce the impact of widening of this route on the movement/habitat of wild animals, 5 large animal underpasses (100m., 420m., 1226m., 65m. and 65m.) and 2 small animal underpasses (10m. and 10 m.) sub-structures will be made. A minor bridge and 2 vehicle underpasses are also to be constructed in the project.