Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on April 11, where he will address a public gathering and inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for 44 projects worth Rs 3,880 crore.
Varanasi Divisional Commissioner Kaushal Raj Sharma said that among the projects to be inaugurated are schemes focused on rural development, including 130 drinking water projects, 100 new Anganwadi centres, 356 libraries, a polytechnic college in Pindra, and a government degree college.
The prime minister will also inaugurate a transit hostel at the Police Lines and police barracks in Ramnagar and four rural roads, he said.
Kashi region president Dilip Patel said that the Prime Minister will arrive in Varanasi at 9.30 am on April 11. He will address a public meeting in Mehdiganj. More than 50,000 people of Varanasi district, including intellectuals, women, farmers, businessmen, and students, will participate in the public meeting.
Patel said that preparations have already begun to make this public meeting historic. Given the PM’s visit, a cleanliness drive has been launched in all the wards of the district from April 6 to 10.
As part of the drive, major temples, crossroads, parks, and statues of great personalities will be cleaned.
Patel said that preparations to give a grand welcome to the PM are underway.
The projects scheduled to be inaugurated include two 400 kV sub-stations and 130 rural drinking water projects worth over ₹345 crore of Jal Jeevan Mission, Sardar Patel Government degree college, Barki worth ₹7.6 crore, and three 400 KV substations and relation transmission lines together worth about Rs1000 crore, among others. These KV substations are related to Machhali Shahar, Chandauli, and Ghazipur.
The PM will lay the foundation of tunnel to be constructed near the Lal Bahadur Shashtri International airport here. The project is worth about will ₹652 crore. The Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone of the 220 kV sub-station with ₹191 crore. He will address the public meeting in the program of about two and a half hours. Inauguration of roads worth 100 crores and several other projects.
