Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi lay foundation stone of AIIMS in Raebareli

Lucknow:  Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of Uttar Pradesh's first All India Institute of Medical Sciences complex in her parliamentary constituency, Raebareli.

Sonia Gandhi, accompanied by her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, performed "bhoomi pujan" near old sugar mill at Munshiganj after which construction work for the building has begun. The project is estimated to cost Rs 1,000 crore.

The Congress President also visited the District Agriculture Science Centre and launched Tata Consultancy Services' (TCS) training programme. Sonia Gandhi later laid the foundation stone of city resource center of housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry, to be constructed by HUDCO.

She also met a girl - 17-year-old Renu - treated by the Smile Train, which provides free cleft and palate treatment across India, at SimHans hospital at Gora Bazar, and enquired about her health.

Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi visit Raebareli

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Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi visited her Parliamentary constituency Raebareli on Tuesday along with her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. The Congress President in the morning laid foundation stone of city resource centre of housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry at Gora Bazar. She also laid the foundation stone for an AIIMS in Munshiganj area. Sonia Gandhi later presided over a meeting of the central vigilance and monitoring committee. After this, Sonia Gandhi met a girl treated by the Smile Train, which provides free cleft and palate treatment across India, and also interacted with the youths getting training at an Agriculture Science Centre. In the afternoon, the Congress President laid the foundation of rail wheel factory to be set up by SAIL near the Rail Coach Factory(RCF) at Lalganj.

Priyanka Gandhi in Raebareli at the foundation-stone ceremony of rail wheel plant at Lalganj

Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi accompanied by her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, laid the foundation stone of an ambitious rail wheel manufacturing unit in Lalganj at Raebareli. This factory will be the biggest of its kind in the country. The unit will come up within the coach manufacturing unit already functioning in the region.