PM Modi will inaugurate Varanasi-Prayagraj highway project
Date: 30/11/2020
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi on Monday to launch the Varanasi-Prayagraj highway project and participate in Deepotsav celebrations at the Ganges ghats.
As the city prepared for the Prime Minister’s visit, security personnel, along side the dog squad, were seen checking boats at the ghats. They were thoroughly checking other locations near Rajghat also , consistent with press agency ANI.
Modi will inaugurate the six-lane widening project of the Handia (Prayagraj) - Rajatalab (Varanasi) section of National Highway 19 during his visit. The 73-km stretch of the newly widened and 6 laned NH19, made with a complete outlay of Rs 2447 crore, is predicted to scale back the time period between Prayagraj and Varanasi by one hour, the Prime Minister’s office said during a statement.
The Prime Minister also will attend Dev Deepawali, a festival of sunshine and fervour in Varanasi celebrated on every Poornima of the Kartik month, i.e. on the complete moon of the Hindu calendar month Kartika — 15 days after Diwali. PM Modi will light an earthen lamp on the Raj Ghat of Varanasi, which can be followed by lighting of 11 lakh diyas on each side of River Ganges
During the tour to his parliamentary constituency, the Prime Minister also will visit the Kashi Vishwanath Temple Corridor Project site to review its progress. He also will see the sunshine and sound show at the archaeological site of Sarnath, which he had inaugurated earlier this month.
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