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Gorakhpur: Before 2014, the country was known to import urea, and shortage of fertilizers used to make headlines, but now the situation has improved, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a fertilizer plant here on Tuesday.
Addressing a rally in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s home constituency Gorakhpur ahead of the assembly elections in the state, Modi said his government has stopped misuse of urea, and issued soil health cards to farmers so that they can Know what type of fertilizer is needed.
The Prime Minister said that his government has also taken steps to increase urea production by reviving the closed fertilizer plants.
He said that the sugarcane arrears paid by the Yogi Adityanath government in four and a half years is more than the total amount paid by the previous governments in the state in 10 years.
Modi was addressing the rally after inaugurating three big projects, including AIIMS and a fertilizer plant, in Gorakhpur.
The other project he inaugurated is a regional medical research center of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
The cost of the three mega projects is more than Rs 9,600 crore.
The newly constructed fertilizer plant will be operated by Hindustan Fertilizer Rasayan Limited (HURL).
The Gorakhpur AIIMS, built at a cost of Rs 1,011 crore, will benefit not only the people of eastern Uttar Pradesh but also a large population of Bihar, Jharkhand and Nepal with its world-class health facilities, officials said.
Similarly, the Regional Medical Research Center established at a cost of Rs.36 crore will provide facilities for testing and research of vector-borne diseases, he said.
The hi-tech lab will reduce the region’s dependence on big cities for tests related to vector-borne diseases.
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