Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during a public meeting, in Jorhat district. | Photo Credit: PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled development projects worth ₹17,500 crore in Assam on March 9. The PM unveiled the projects strengthening the health, oil and gas, railway and housing sectors at a function in Jorhat. He laid the foundation stone of projects under the Prime Minister’s Development Initiative for North Eastern Region (PM-DevINE) scheme. Among these projects are a Medical College and Hospital at Sivasagar and a Hemato-Lymphoid Centre in Guwahati. Also Read | Congress would have taken 20 years to do what we did in 5 years in Northeast: PM Modi He also laid the foundation stone for the capacity expansions of the Digboi Refinery from 0.65 to 1 mmtpa and Guwahati Refinery from 1.0 to 1.2 mmtpa, among others. Mr. Modi inaugurated a new medical college and hospital at Tinsukia and the 718-km-long Barauni- Guwahati Pipeline, built at a cost of about ₹3,992 crore. He also inaugurated about 5.5 lakh homes under PM Awas Yojana-Gramin, constructed at …