Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Gujarat on Monday, accompanied by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, to jointly inaugurate the TATA Aircraft Complex for C-295 aircraft manufacturing at the TATA Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) campus. This complex will produce 40 out of the total 56 aircraft in the C-295 programme, with 16 aircraft being directly delivered from Airbus in Spain. This facility marks India’s first private sector Final Assembly Line (FAL) for military aircraft, creating a comprehensive ecosystem for the manufacture, assembly, testing, qualification, delivery, and maintenance of the aircraft’s lifecycle. Alongside TATA, leading defense public sector units such as Bharat Electronics Ltd. and Bharat Dynamics Ltd., as well as various private Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises, will support this initiative.
Earlier, in October 2022, PM Modi had laid the foundation stone for the Vadodara Final Assembly Line. Later in the day, he will visit Laxmi Vilas Palace in Vadodara, before heading to Amreli to inaugurate Bharat Mata Sarovar. He will also lay the foundation stone for various development projects worth over ₹4,800 crores, benefiting citizens across Amreli, Jamnagar, Morbi, Devbhoomi Dwarka, Junagadh, Porbandar, Kachchh, and Botad districts.
Among the projects to be inaugurated are road developments exceeding ₹2,800 crores, including the four-laning of sections of NH 151, NH 151A, and NH 51, along with the Junagadh bypass. The Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone for the four-laning project from the Dhrol bypass in Jamnagar to Amran in Morbi. Additionally, he will dedicate the Bhuj-Naliya Rail Gauge Conversion Project, completed at a cost of approximately ₹1,100 crores. This project features 24 major bridges, 254 minor bridges, 3 road overbridges, and 30 road underbridges, and is crucial for the socio-economic development of Kachchh district.
PM Modi will also inaugurate water supply projects worth over ₹700 crores in Amreli district. This includes the Navda to Chavand bulk pipeline, which will supply an additional 28 crore liters of water to about 67 lakh beneficiaries across 36 cities and 1,298 villages in Botad, Amreli, Junagadh, Rajkot, and Porbandar districts. He will lay the foundation stone for the second phase of the Pasavi Group Augmentation Water Supply Scheme in Bhavnagar district, which will benefit 95 villages in the Mahuva, Talaja, and Palitana talukas. Lastly, the Prime Minister will initiate tourism-related projects, including transforming the Karli Recharge Reservoir in Porbandar district into a sustainable eco-tourism destination.
