Technology Day: PM Modi to lay foundation stone of LIGO-India project today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to lay the foundation stone of Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory – India on Thursday. Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Plant to be launched PM Modi will also dedicate to the nation a Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Plant at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre campus at Visakhapatnam and a Fission Moly-99 Production Facility in Mumbai, to produce the radioisotope used in more than 85 per cent of imaging procedures for early detection of cancer and heart disease. The projects whose foundation stone would be laid include Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory – India, Hingoli; Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Jatni, Odisha; and Platinum Jubilee Block of Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. The projects that will be dedicated to the nation include Fission Molybdenum-99 Production Facility, Mumbai; Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Plant, Visakhapatnam; National Hadron Beam Therapy Facility, Navi Mumbai; Radiological Research Unit, Navi Mumbai; Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Visakhapatnam; and Women & Children Cancer Hospital Building, Navi Mumbai, it said. Rare Earth Permanent Magnets production facility has been developed on the campus of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre at Visakhapatnam.