Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Karnataka on Friday, 13 November, to launch development projects worth more than Rs 15,600 crore in Bengaluru and other parts of the state.
According to the Prime Minister’s Office, the visit will cover urban mobility, power transmission, renewable energy, petroleum infrastructure, waste management and railways.
01. What is on the schedule
The Prime Minister will begin the day at Prashanti Kutiram, the headquarters of Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (S-VYASA), where he will take part in its golden jubilee celebrations at around 10:45 am and address the gathering.
At around 12:45 pm, he will flag off the Bengaluru Metro’s Pink Line from Kalena Agrahara to Tavarekere, built at a cost of around Rs 3,470 crore, and take a metro ride from Tavarekere to IIM Bangalore station.
At around 1:15 pm, he will inaugurate, dedicate to the nation and lay the foundation stone for various development projects worth over Rs 15,600 crore in Bengaluru, and address the gathering.
02. Vande Bharat and Mysuru planetarium
One of the highlights of the visit will be the flagging off of the Bengaluru-Mangaluru-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express, which will connect Bengaluru with coastal Karnataka and Goa, passing through Hassan, Sakleshpur, Mangaluru, Udupi, Murdeshwar, Gokarna and Karwar.
The Prime Minister will also dedicate to the nation India’s largest underground LPG storage cavern in Mangaluru, and inaugurate four redeveloped railway stations under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme: Chamarajanagar, Chikkamagaluru, Sakleshpur and Subrahmanya Road.
Later in the day, he will travel to Mysuru, where he will take part in a tree plantation programme at Bharat Vann under the ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ initiative at around 3:30 pm. At around 4 pm, he will inaugurate the COSMOS-Mysuru Planetarium, India’s first LED dome planetarium, built by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics with a 15-metre dome containing over 4.2 crore LEDs.
On Saturday, 14 November, the Prime Minister will visit Gujarat, where he will offer prayers at the Ambaji Temple in Banaskantha district.
