PM Modi will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for development projects worth over Rs 15,600 crore in Bengaluru, spanning metro and rail connectivity, renewable energy, petroleum infrastructure and urban development.PM Modi will also attend programmes in Mysuru and take part in the golden jubilee celebrations of Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Karnataka on Friday to launch Bengaluru Metro's Pink Line, flag off a Vande Bharat Express and inaugurate four redeveloped railway stations, news agency Press Trust of India reported.During the visit, PM Modi will lay the foundation stone and inaugurate development projects worth more than Rs 15,600 crore in Bengaluru.
He will also attend programmes in Mysuru and take part in the golden jubilee celebrations of Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana.According to an official statement cited by PTI, the prime minister will flag off services on the new Pink Line and travel by Metro from Tavarekere to IIM Bangalore station. He will also address a gathering.The Pink Line stretch from Kalena Agrahara to Tavarekere has been developed at a cost of about Rs 3,470 crore.
PM Modi will inaugurate the Transmission Scheme for Integration of Renewable Energy Zones, Phase II, in Koppal-II and Gadag-II. The project has been developed at an investment of about Rs 4,450 crore.
He will also inaugurate the Transmission Scheme for the Solar Energy Zone in Bidar, built at a cost of about Rs 1,370 crore.The prime minister will lay the foundation stone for the Transmission Scheme for the Integration of the Davanagere-Chitradurga and Ballari Renewable Energy Zones, involving an investment of more than Rs 3,450 crore. He will also lay the foundation stone for a project to strengthen the transmission system for integrating additional renewable energy capacity at Davanagere and Ballari.
The project will cost more than Rs 1,100 crore. āThe prime minister will dedicate to the nation India's largest underground LPG storage cavern in Mangaluru, constructed at a cost of over Rs 850 crore. With a storage capacity of 80,000 metric tonnes, the facility will significantly strengthen India's LPG storage infrastructure,ā the official statement said.The project includes a 9.4-km LPG pipeline connecting New Mangalore Port to the main terminal to support the transportation and storage of LPG.PM Modi will also dedicate to the nation Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited's Devangonthi Marketing Terminal in Bengaluru.
Built at an investment of Rs 330 crore, the facility will strengthen the storage and distribution of petroleum products in Karnataka.He will lay the foundation stone for GAIL's compressed biogas plant at Haralakunte in Bengaluru. The plant will process about 300 tonnes of municipal solid waste a day to produce 12.6 tonnes of compressed biogas.The prime minister will inaugurate the redeveloped railway stations at Chamarajanagar, Chikkamagaluru, Sakleshpur and Subrahmanya Road under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme.
He will also dedicate to the nation the doubling of the 45-km Bagalkot-Wandal railway section, part of the 284-km Gadag-Hospet doubling project.PM Modi will also dedicate the electrification of the 55-km Sakleshpur-Subrahmanya Road Ghat railway section to the nation.He will flag off the Bengaluru-Mangaluru-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express, which will provide faster rail connectivity between Bengaluru, coastal Karnataka and Goa.PM Modi will then travel to Mysuru, where he will take part in a tree-plantation programme at Bharat Vann, inaugurate the COSMOS-Mysuru Planetarium and address a gathering.The prime minister will also attend the golden jubilee celebrations of Prashanti Kutiram, the residential headquarters campus of Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana, or S-VYASA. He will lay the foundation stone for the Golden Jubilee Administrative Block and launch the S-VYASA off-campus centre in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.The programme will also commemorate the birth centenary of former RSS general secretary H V Sheshadri.PM Modi's Karnataka visit will cover Metro, railway, energy, waste-processing and petroleum infrastructure projects, along with programmes in Mysuru and the S-VYASA golden jubilee celebrations.- Ends