Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Bengaluru on Friday and received a warm welcome from Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, Governor Dr Sudha Yadav and senior BJP leaders at HAL Airport.
Former Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, BJP state president B Y Vijayendra, Assembly Leader of Opposition R. Ashoka, Legislative Council Leader of Opposition Chalavadi Narayanaswamy and Union Minister of State Shobha Karandlaje greeted the Prime Minister.
Authorities made elaborate security arrangements for his visit. BJP workers gathered along his route, waving flags and cheering as his convoy passed through the city. Roads featured saffron and BJP flags.
During his visit, PM Modi will launch and dedicate development projects worth more than Rs 15,600 crore, according to R Ashoka.
The Prime Minister will attend the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Prashanti Kutiram, the headquarters of Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (S-VYASA). He will lay the foundation stone for its Golden Jubilee Administrative Block and launch the institution’s off-campus centre in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
PM Modi will inaugurate Bengaluru Metro’s Pink Line, built at Rs 3,470 crore. The line will take the Namma Metro network beyond 100 km.
He will also lay the foundation stone for GAIL’s Rs 123.42-crore compressed biogas plant at Haralakunte in Bengaluru. The facility will process 300 tonnes of wet waste daily and supply piped cooking gas to 25,000 households.
In Mangaluru, Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate an underground LPG storage facility with a capacity of 80,000 metric tonnes. The project cost Rs 854 crore.
Other programmes include the inauguration of the COSMOS-Mysuru planetarium and the flag-off of the Bengaluru-Mangaluru-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express. He will also launch railway station redevelopment works and lay foundation stones for power transmission projects worth over Rs 10,000 crore across Karnataka.
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