AIIMS, IOCL refinery among Vajpayee’s big contributions to Odisha

Bhubaneswar | Thursday | 16th August, 2018

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PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the Rs 35,000-crore project on February 7, 2016. Around 400 km of the road passes through Odisha connecting Berhampur and Balasore.Union tribal affairs minister Jual Oram, who also served in similar capacity in Vajpayee’s cabinet, recalls how the NDA I government led by Vajpayee carved out a separate ministry for tribal development. To hear about his health is very distressing. Mr Vajpayee is a great leader; …very good experience to have worked under him.”While the Vajpayee-led government conceived the idea of having six AIIMS in different parts of the country, he laid the foundation stone of AIIMS Bhubaneswar on July 15, 2003. The institution has already made a mark as an apex centre of healthcare in this part of the country.Vajpayee also had laid the foundation stone of the Indian Oil Corporation’s Paradip oil refinery on May 24, 2000..