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Narendra Modi inaugurates Tuirial dam in Mizoram

Mizoram CM :- Lal Thanhawla, 

Governor :- Lt. General (Retd.) Nirbhay Sharma.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 60-megawatt Tuirial hydroelectric power project from Aizawl, Mizoram. 
• Mizoram had become the third power- surplus state in the north-east after Sikkim and Tripura.
• The earthfill and gravity dam over Tuirial river has been constructed as a central sector project and implemented by North Eastern Electric Power Corporation(Neepco) under the administrative control of the ministry of power.

• The Tuirial project was announced and cleared in 1998 by the then Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. 
• It was the first major central project to be successfully commissioned in Mizoram. 
• Prime Minister also inaugurated the Shillong - Nongstoin Rongjeng Tura road.
• The first unit was commissioned on August 25 and the second one on November 28 this year.

President of India Lays Foundation Stone of ‘NYAYA GRAM’ Project

The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, laid the foundation stone of the 'Nyaya Gram project' of the High Court of Allahabad in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.

• As per the President, the Nyaya Gram project would prove to be a milestone in fulfilling the requirements of the Allahabad High Court.
• The President said that citizens have faith in the judiciary.
• And yet common people tend to avoid knocking on its door.
• It is important to change this situation.
• On all of us lies the responsibility of providing justice on time, making the justice system less expensive, providing judgments in a language understandable to the common citizen, and ensuring justice for women and weaker sections in society.

(In the year 1866, the High Court for the North-Western Provinces came into existence at Agra.

The first Chief Justice of High Court of North-Western Provinces- Sir Walter Morgan.

The seat of the High Court for the North-Western Provinces was shifted from Agra to Allahabad in 1869 and its designation was altered to ‘the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad’.)

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