Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a day-long visit to Assam today. At around 10:30 this morning he will land at the Emergency Landing Facility on Moran Bypass, developed along a national highway in Dibrugarh district, where he will also witness the aerial display of Fighters and Helicopters.

The Emergency Landing Facility is the first of its kind in Northeast India designed and constructed in coordination with the Indian Air Force to support landing and take-off of military and civil aircraft during emergencies.

Mr Modi will inaugurate and flag off various projects worth more than 5,450 crore rupees in Guwahati in the afternoon.

Akashvani correspondent reorts, the Prime Minister will arrive in Guwahati after the Dibrugarh event at around 1 PM, and will inaugurate Kumar Bhaskar Varma Setu across River Brahmaputra connecting Guwahati and North Guwahati built at a cost of 3,000 crore rupees.

After the bridge inauguration, the Prime Minister will proceed to Lachit Ghat, a nearby area to virtually inaugurate the temporary campus of IIM Guwahati and the National Data Centre for North Eastern Region at Amingaon in Kamrup district.

In addition, the Prime Minister will flag off 225 electric buses under the PM-eBus Sewa Scheme for four cities of India. 100 buses for Guwahati, 50 each for Nagpur and Bhavnagar and 25 buses for Chandigarh. At 2 PM, the Prime Minister will address a Booth Sanmilan of BJP workers in Guwahati.