Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharam, will visit state for two day from August 27 next, officials confirmed.
The Finance Minister will attend several official programmes as well as participate in party events. She will also discuss and review the central projects and financial matters of the state with the concerned ministers and officials. She is also expected to inaugurate some projects.
According to the schedule Sitharaman will first review the status of Emergency Assistance Projects at the State Guest House.
She is also expected to inaugurate as many as 11 projects as part of her visit to Mohanpur project site and Gandhigram Covid vaccination centre on the first day.
The projects included- 132 KV sub-station at Mohanpur, constructed under North Eastern Region Power System Improvement Project (NERPSIP) funded by World Bank (Rs. 38.03 Cr), inauguration of 80,000 Functional Household Tap Connections provided under Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) along with 132 Drinking Water Supply Schemes– Project cost Rs. 66 crore, inauguration of 7 projects implemented under RIDF/SPA Project cost Rs. 65 crore and inauguration of three Surface Water Treatment plants at Rampur, Pragati and Badharghat, funded by ADB under North East Region Urban Development Project (Project Cost Rs. 20 crore).
In the evening, she is also scheduled to visit the house of a Freedom Fighter at Badharghat.
On the next day, Sitharaman will visit Matabari and on her way back to Agartala, she will visit Dasarath Deb Memorial School Ground at Killa village council under Gomati district where she will hold a meeting and interact with the members of women-run Self-Help Groups. She will depart from Maharaja Bir Bikram airport, Agartala in the afternoon.
Earlier, she was scheduled to visit Tripura on August 18 to take part in the 113h birth anniversary celebration of Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya but the visit was deferred following an urgent meeting over the Afghanistan crisis
