Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on Friday, January 19, to launch multiple development projects in the three states.
According to an official release, PM Modi will visit Maharashtra around 10.45 am and inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of a few projects in Solapur. From Maharashtra, he will travel to Bengaluru in Karnataka. Following his visit to Bengaluru, the Prime Minister will participate in the opening ceremony of Khelo India Youth Games 2023 in the evening in Tamil Nadu’s Chennai.
PM Modi in Maharashtra
PM Modi will begin his three-state visit on Friday by laying the foundation stone of eight Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) projects worth around 2,000 crore in Maharashtra. He will also dedicate more than 90 thousand houses completed under PMAY-Urban in the state.
Further, the Prime Minister will also dedicate 15,000 houses of the Raynagar Housing Society in Solapur, whose beneficiaries comprise thousands of handloom workers, vendors, power loom workers, rag pickers, Bidi workers, drivers, among others.
PM Modi will kickstart the distribution of 1st and 2nd installments to 10,000 beneficiaries of PM-SVANIDHI in Maharashtra during the programme.
PM Modi in Karnataka
Following his visit to Maharashtra, Prime Minister Modi will reach Bengaluru in Karnataka in the afternoon and will inaugurate the new state-of-the-art Boeing India Engineering & Technology Center (BIETC) campus. He will further launch the Boeing Sukanya Program aiming to support the entry of girl children from across India into the country’s growing aviation sector. The program will also provide scholarships to women who are training to be pilots.
PM Modi in Tamil Nadu
The Prime Minister will be the Chief Guest for the opening ceremony of the 6th Khelo India Youth Games 2023 which will be held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Notably, this is the first time that Khelo India Youth Games are being held in South India.
The Games will be played across four cities of Tamil Nadu – Chennai, Madurai, Trichy and Coimbatore from January 19 to 31, 2024.
During the inaugural ceremony, PM Modi will also launch and lay the foundation stone of projects related to the Broadcasting sector worth about Rs 250 crore. This includes the launch of the revamped DD Podhigai channel as DD Tamil; 12 Akashvani FM projects in 8 States; and 4 DD transmitters in Jammu and Kashmir. In addition, the Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone for 26 new FM transmitter Projects in 12 States.
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