In another gift to poll-bound Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of nine highway projects through video conferencing on Monday. The PM will also inaugurate optical fibre internet services under which all the 45,945 villages of Bihar will be connected through optical fibre internet service. A statement from PMO said that the nine highway projects involve a road length of about 350 kilometres at a cost of Rs 14,258 crore. Modi had declared a special package for significant infrastructure development of Bihar in the year 2015. "They will utilise this workforce to not only implement this project but also make it professionally run to provide Optical Fibre Internet Services for common citizens at every village of Bihar.

Source: dna September 21, 2020 01:59 UTC