Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Chhattisgarh on Saturday to take part in the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the state’s formation, and inaugurate or lay the foundation stones for development projects worth ₹14,260 crore, officials said.

Chhattisgarh, earlier part of Madhya Pradesh, was carved out as a state on November 1, 2000.

The PM will arrive here at 9.40 am and head for Shri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital, Nava Raipur Atal Nagar, where he will interact with 2,500 children who have been successfully treated for congenital heart diseases in the ’Gift of life’ ceremony, an official statement said.

Later, at around 10.45 AM, he will inaugurate `Shanti Shikhar’ of Brahma Kumaris, a ”modern centre for spiritual learning, peace, and meditation”, it said.

Thereafter he wi

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