Patna: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a day-long visit to Bihar, on Saturday inaugurated the new IIT campus here.
He launched Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayay Rashtriya Gramin Joyti Yojna aimed at power sector reforms in the rural areas.
He also inaugurated Daniyawan-Biharsharief new rail line and construction work of phase-1 of Jagdishpur-Haldia Natural Gas Pipeline here.
Besides, Modi laid the foundation stone for an incubation centre for medical electronics at IIT-Patna.
Modi arrived here earlier and was received by Governor K.N. Tripathi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at the airport.