Modi Varanasi visit LIVE Updates: PM launches projects worth Rs 1800 crore

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi on Thursday during which he inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of multiple development initiatives worth over Rs 1,800 crore focussed on improving infrastructure and enhancing the ease of living.

In the last eight years, Modi has put a lot of focus on infrastructure development in Varanasi and this has resulted in the transformation of the landscape of the city, the statement from the PMO said, adding that the primary focus of this endeavour has been enhancing the ease of living for the people.

Here are the live updates on PM Narendra Modi's visit to Varanasi:

Varanasi, UP | Street vendors are now eligible to get bank loans. As many as 33 lakh people have yet received that benefit in the country, many of them hail from Kashi as well: PM Narendra Modi pic.twitter.com/TLr9sZIjGi
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) July 7, 2022

Varanasi, UP | For us, development means poor, underprivileged, backward, tribals, women & old people feel empowered... That is why we try if a house is built, it should be under the name of a woman, we're ensuring work to get each poor a pucca house: PM Narendra Modi pic.twitter.com/HL3wVllNYc
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) July 7, 2022

Varanasi, UP | Projects being launched in Varanasi will give momentum to the city's development journey, further them in the 'ease of living index'... In this city, one work ends & another begins. Even today projects worth more than 1700 cr have been launched: PM Narendra Modi pic.twitter.com/l0bvN1iu9q
— ANI (@ANI) July 7, 2022

Uttar Pradesh | PM Modi inaugurates & lays the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth over Rs 1800 crores in Varanasi pic.twitter.com/4586RhIrJr
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) July 7, 2022

#WATCH | Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a free-wheeling interaction with children in Varanasi pic.twitter.com/fncXna5a3A
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) July 7, 2022

# The foundational aim behind the National Education Policy is to bring education out from the limits of narrow thought-process & to integrate it with the modern ideas of the 21st century, says Modi.

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# Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates Akshaya Patra Mid-Day Meal Kitchen which will have a cooking capacity of 1 lakh students.

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh | Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates Akshaya Patra Mid-Day Meal Kitchen which will have a cooking capacity of 1 lakh students pic.twitter.com/dZHEsHJor5
— ANI (@ANI) July 7, 2022

# "Leaving for Varanasi to attend various programmes. Always a delight to be among the people of Kashi. At around 2 pm will inaugurate the Akshaya Patra Mid-Day Meal Kitchen which will have a cooking capacity of 1 lakh. Many students will benefit from this," PM Modi tweets.

# Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan overviewed last-minute preparations at the Rudraksh International Convention Centre in Varanasi.

Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan overviewed last-minute preparations at the Rudraksh International Convention Centre in Varanasi
"PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate the three-day Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Samagam tomorrow, July 7," tweeted Union Minister Pradhan pic.twitter.com/TJF9PX7wri— ANI (@ANI) July 6, 2022

# Around 2 pm, Modi will inaugurate the 'Akshay Patra Mid Day Meal Kitchen' at LT College, Varanasi, which has the capacity of cooking mid-day meals for around 1 lakh students.

# Around 2:45 pm, Modi will visit the International Cooperation and Convention Centre -- Rudraksh -- where he will inaugurate 'Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Samagam' on the implementation of the National Education Policy.

# Around 4 pm, Modi will reach Dr Sampurnanand Sports Stadium, Sigra where he will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple projects worth over Rs 1,800 crore.

# At Dr Sampurnanand Sports Stadium, Modi will inaugurate projects worth over Rs 590 crore. Among these are multiple initiatives under Varanasi smart city and urban projects.

प्रधानमंत्री श्री @narendramodi के 7 जुलाई, 2022 को वाराणसी में सार्वजनिक कार्यक्रम। pic.twitter.com/6WtLMc2pY3
— BJP Uttar Pradesh (@BJP4UP) July 6, 2022

# Modi will also inaugurate various road projects.

# Social and education sector-related projects to be inaugurated include ITI at Village Mahgaon, Phase-II of 'Vedic Vigyan Kendra' in Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Government Girls Home at Ramnagar, Theme Park in Government Old Age Women Home at Durgakund.

# He will inaugurate a synthetic athletic track and synthetic basketball court in Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Sports Complex, Bada Lalpur and various police and safety fire projects including non-residential police station building at Sindhaura, construction of hostel rooms, barracks in Mirzamurad, Cholapur, Jansa and Kapsethi police stations and building of Fire Extinguisher Centre in Pindra, it said.

# Modi will also lay the foundation stone of projects worth more than Rs 1,200 crore. Among these are multiple road infrastructure projects to help reduce the traffic load on city and rural roads.

# Modi will lay the foundation stone of multiple projects, including the development work of the Sarnath Buddhist Circuit under the World Bank-aided UP pro-poor tourism development project, construction of 'Paavan Path for Asht Vinakaya', 'Dwadash Jyotirling Yatra', 'Asht Bhairaw', 'Nav Gauri Yatra', tourism development work of five stoppages in 'Panchkosi Parikrama Yatra Marg' and tourism development of various wards in Old Kashi.

# The prime minister will also lay the foundation of Phase 1 of redevelopment works of the sports stadium at Sigra. He will inaugurate 'Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Samagam' at International Cooperation and Convention Centre -- #Rudraksha.

(Edited by : Priyanka Rathi)

First Published: Jul 7, 2022 10:08 AM IST

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Modi Varanasi visit LIVE Updates: PM launches projects worth Rs 1,800 crore

The foundational aim behind the National Education Policy is to bring education out from the limits of narrow thought-process & to integrate it with the modern ideas of the 21st century, says Modi.

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