Karnataka: PM Modi to launch Rs 15,600-crore projects, flag off Bengaluru-Mangaluru-Madgaon Vande Bharat today
The Prime Minister's day-long visit covers Bengaluru and Mysuru and includes a metro ride, four redeveloped railway stations and two rail line upgrades. He travels to Gujarat on Saturday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Karnataka on Friday to inaugurate, dedicate and lay the foundation stones of development projects worth more than Rs 15,600 crore, and flag off a Vande Bharat Express linking Bengaluru with Mangaluru and Madgaon in Goa.
According to All India Radio, the Prime Minister will begin the day at the golden jubilee celebrations of Prashanti Kutiram, the campus of the Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana. In the afternoon in Bengaluru he will flag off and ride a metro train from Tavarekere to the IIM Bangalore station, before the projects event.
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The rail projects
The new Vande Bharat service will connect Bengaluru with Mangaluru and Madgaon, extending the existing Mangaluru-Madgaon run, and inaugural trains are to start simultaneously from Bengaluru and Mangaluru. The 16-coach train, with chair car and executive class, will serve Bengaluru Urban, Hassan, Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Uttara Kannada districts and South Goa, and is fitted with the indigenous Kavach collision-avoidance system. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw is to attend.
Modi will also inaugurate four stations redeveloped under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme, at Chamarajanagar, Chikkamagaluru, Sakleshpur and Subrahmanya Road. He will dedicate a 45-km doubled stretch between Bagalkot and Wandal, part of the 284-km Gadag-Hospet doubling project, and the 55-km electrified ghat section between Sakleshpur and Subrahmanya Road.
Reports did not give a project-by-project break-up of the Rs 15,600-crore total.
Mysuru and Gujarat
Later in the day the Prime Minister will plant a tree at Bharat Vann in Mysuru and, in the evening, inaugurate the COSMOS-Mysuru Planetarium. On Saturday he will travel to Gujarat to offer prayers at the Ambaji temple in Banaskantha district.
Why it matters
The new service gives coastal Karnataka a direct Vande Bharat link to the state capital, and the electrified ghat section removes a gap on the line through the Western Ghats. The projects also add to the Centre's railway spending in a state ruled by the Congress.
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