By Bizodisha Bureau, Bhubaneswar, December 19, 2018: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Odisha visit on December 24 will dedicate the new campus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)- Bhubaneswar to the nation. Besides, he will lay the foundation stone and inaugurate host of projects worth Rs 16,000 crore.

The premier engineering institute has come up on around 900 acres of land at the out skirts of Bhubaneswar. The project cost of IIT Bhubaneswar is pegged at Rs 1880 crore billion. According to officials, the PM will inaugurate all the projects from the IIT Bhubaneswar campus itself.

The other projects to be inaugurated by Modi includes the foundation laying of Paradip-Hyderabad products pipeline (PHPL) of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) with cost pegged at Rs 3800 crore, Bokaro- Angul section of Jagdishpur- Haldia pipeline and Bokaro-Dhamra pipeline project of GAIL India ltd (Rs 3437 crore), for construction of permanent campus of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) at Berhampur (Rs 1229 crore), six laning of Chandikhole-Bhadrak section of NH-5 on Hybrid Annuity model (Rs 1522 crore), four-laning of Cuttack-Angul Section of NH- 42 on engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) mode (Rs 1991 crore), six laning of of Bhubaneswar-Puintola section of NH-5 of 132.14 kilometers (Rs 1937 crore) and inauguration of an ESIC hospital in Bhubaneswar, among others.

Sources said, after inauguration of the projects, Modi is also slated to address a public rally in Khurda.