Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Bettiah in West Champaran district of Bihar on Wednesday. This is his second visit to Bihar in five days. He will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for various infrastructure projects related to rail, road, and petroleum and natural gas, totaling over Rs. 8700 crore....
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The projects include the inauguration of the 109-km long Indian Oil's Muzaffarpur-Motihari LPG pipeline, which will provide clean cooking fuel to Bihar and neighboring Nepal. He will also dedicate an LPG bottling plant and storage terminal to the state. Other projects include the inauguration of the two-lane Piprakothi-Motihari-Raxaul section on NH-28A and the two-lane Shivhar-Sitamarhi section on NH-104. Modi will also lay the foundation stone for projects like the six-lane cable bridge over the Ganga parallel to the Patna-Digha-Sonpur rail-cum-road bridge and the four-laning of the Bakarpur Hat-Manikpur section of NH-19 bypass. In total, he will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for development projects worth Rs. 12,800 crore.