Bokaro: With the Lok Sabha elections just a year away, PM Manmohan Singh on Tuesday turned the foundation-laying ceremony of the Bokaro Steel Plant's expansion and modernisation programme into an occasion for announcing sops for Jharkhand. He said the Centre was planning to open a new university and an institute of management in Jharkhand. He added that the Centre would give Rs 120 crore for upgrading the Ranchi-based Rajendra Prasad Chikitsha Bigyan Sansthan. He also proposed schemes to convert the Barhi-Jamshedpur, Hazaribag-Ranchi, Ranchi-Jamshedpur roads into four-lane highways. Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad will be brought under the purview of the JNURM. PM also gave emphasis to rural electrification which he said was necessary for industrialisation and urbanisation of the state. Singh said the Centre would spend Rs 1,500 crore on rural electrification in 22 districts under the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Project. For industrial and urban development, the Centre will set up two power projects of 4,000 MW and 1,000 MW each. Meanwhile, police arrested 55 BJP supporters when they tried to hold protests against Singh's visit and price rise.