Jamnagar (Gujarat), April 19: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar.
He laid the foundation stone in the presence of Prime Minister of Mauritius Pravind Kumar Jugnauth and Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO). Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (GCTM) at Jamnagar will be the first and only global outpost centre for traditional medicine across the world. It will emerge as an international hub of global wellness.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a three-day visit to Gujarat. Earlier in the day, he dedicated to the nation a new dairy complex and potato processing plant at Diyodar, Banaskantha district, built at a cost of over Rs 600 crore.
The new dairy complex is a greenfield project and will enable the processing of about 30 lakh litres of milk, produce about 80 tonnes of butter, one lakh litres of ice cream, 20 tonnes of condensed milk (khoya) and 6 tonne of chocolate daily.
The potato processing plant will produce different types of processed potato products like French fries, potato chips, aloo tikki, patties etc, many of which will be exported to other countries. These plants will empower the local farmers and give a boost to the rural economy in the region.
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