The stage is set for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally on Tuesday in Kurukshetra, from where he will sound the poll bugle in Haryana for the ensuing Lok Sabha polls.

The Prime Minister will address the “Swachh Shakti-2019” programme at Kurukshetra. On the occasion, he would inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of several major development projects including Shri Krishna Ayush University, Kurukshetra, Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya University of Health, Karnal and National Institute of Ayurveda, Panchkula and inauguration of National Cancer Institute (NCI) at Badhsa village in Jhajjar.

The Chief Minister Manohar Lal, several Union Ministers, Haryana Cabinet Ministers will attend the programme.

About 7,500 women representatives from across the country and 15,000 women Panches and Sarpanches from across the state will participate in the “Swachh Shakti-2019”. Modi will address the participants and also honour women achievers at the Kurukshetra event.

Giving details of the projects to be launched by the Prime Minister, Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Monday said that PM Modi would lay the foundation stone of three major projects of Health and Ayush Department and inaugurate National Cancer Institute (NCI) at Badhsa village in Jhajjar,

Vij said that the Prime Minister would lay the foundation stone of Shri Krishna Ayush University, Kurukshetra, which is first of its kind in the world. It would provide the facility of education and treatment through Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathic medical systems.

It would be constructed on about 94.5 acres at an estimated cost of about Rs 475 crore. Similarly, he would also lay the foundation stone of  Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya University of Health, Karnal and National Institute of Ayurveda, Panchkula, the Minister said.

He said that the National Cancer Institute, which has been constructed in Badhsa at the cost of about Rs 2,035 crore, has 710 beds. The institute would provide treatment of all stages of cancer.

Apart from doctors’ rooms, about 800 rooms have been constructed for the attendants of patients in the institute. Besides this, a Center of Excellence is being set up as

University in Kutail of Karnal District, which would have super speciality hospital with a trauma centre and would provide graduate and post-doctoral courses for students. This university would be developed on over 144 acres at an estimated cost of about Rs 750 crore, Vij said.

National Institute of Ayurveda would be set up in Panchkula to provide unprecedented medical facilities in the field of Ayurveda. It would be constructed on 19.87 acres with the support of the Centre Government. About Rs 270.50 crore would be spent on its construction. Its inpatient department (IPD) would have 250 beds and would provide education facility to about 500 students in graduation, post graduation and PhD courses, the Minister added.

Earlier, the Prime Minister had addressed a rally on October 9 last year in the Jat heartland of Rohtak. On the same day, he had unveiled the statue of  venerated Jat farmer leader Deenbandhu Sir Chhotu Ram in Rohtak’s Sampla and also laid the foundation stone of Rail Coach Factory to be built on 163 acres in Barahi at Sonepat.