Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Karnataka and Maharashtra on January 19, where he is scheduled to lay foundation stones and inaugura...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Karnataka and Maharashtra on January 19, where he is scheduled to lay foundation stones and inaugurate projects worth more than Rs 10,800 crore in the former and worth Rs 38,800 crore in the latter.
Modi’s
visit to Karnataka holds significance as Assembly elections are due to be held
there in May this year. The BJP is in power in Karnataka and keen to return to
power there.
He
will distribute title deeds (hakku patra) to about 50,000 beneficiaries of
newly declared revenue villages in Karnataka.
Modi will also lay the foundation stone of Yadgir multi-village
drinking water supply scheme under the Centre’s Jal Jeevan Mission.
He
will also inaugurate Narayanpur Left Bank Canal – Extension Renovation and
Modernisation Project (NLBC – ERM), which is expected to benefit more than
three lakh farmers of the region.
The
Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone of two Greenfield highway
development projects in Karnataka, which are part of the Surat-Chennai
expressway.
Later
in the day, Modi will dedicate two Mumbai metro rail lines to the nation.
He will be laying the foundation stone of seven sewage treatment plants as well.
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