Nagpur, May 26 -- Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Monday laid foundation stone of Swasti Niwas Panthagar, a residential home for cancer patients and their relatives, at the National Cancer Institute here, in presence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

Stating that it was a dream project of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to start a charitable hospital for cancer patients in Nagpur and from Central India after his father's death due to cancer, Shah recalled that Fadnavis had started the work of the Cancer Institute, when he was a minister.

"Such works of service get the blessings of God and society and that is why the banyan tree of the National Cancer Institute stands here and is removing sorrow from the l...