DREAM city project will help Surat emerge as safest diamond trading hub: PM

Ahead of the Gujarat Assembly polls due later this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a roadshow in Surat and said the city will emerge as the safest and convenient diamond trading hub in the world once the Diamond Research and Mercantile (DREAM) City project is completed.

The PM later also held a roadshow in Bhavnagar city where women showered rose petals on his car and artistes performed folk dances on stages erected by local administration at several places along the route.

In Surat, Modi addressed a rally in Limbayat area after laying the foundation stone and inaugurating a host of projects worth Rs 3,400 crore, including inauguration of the main entrance gate and phase-1 works of DREAM City, an ambitious project coming up on 700 hectares of land near Khajod village on the outer Ring Road of Surat.

He also said the Indian Railways has come up with a plan to run a special train between Surat and his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi for convenient transportation of