RAJKOT: Gujarat chief minister and BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will inaugurate the project of filling 115 dams of Saurashtra with Narmada waters on Monday.

Modi is scheduled to preside over an inaugural ceremony of the project at Race Course Ground on Monday.

The government had announced this project on September 25, 2012, in Rajkot after which tenders were floated. The project was to link the dams with Narmada waters first through canal and then through pipelines. Tenders worth Rs 5,900 crore are at the last stage of completion. The first phase of this project will be accomplished after two years which will have covered half of the 115 dams. The government aims to finish the project by 2017 state assembly election.

Apart from Modi, ministers from his cabinet - Nitin Patel, Saurabh Patel - ministers from Saurashtra - Babu Bokharia, Govind Patel, Vasu Trivedi, Jayesh Radadiya, Jenti Kavadia, Parsottam Solanki, Vasan Ahir from Kutch and Nanu Vanani from Surat are also expected to arrive in Rajkot to attend the function.

