PM Modi in Bengaluru: 108 feet bronze statue of Kempegowda unveiled, Vande Bharat also flagged off
PM Modi arrived in Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka today, where he was received by Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot, CM Basavaraj Bommai, Union Minister and BJP's Dharwad MP Pralhad Joshi.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a tour of South India after his election tour of Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. He reached Bengaluru today, where he was received by Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot, CM Basavaraj Bommai, Union Minister and BJP's Dharwad MP Pralhad Joshi. After the welcome program, he paid floral tributes to the statues of poet Kanak Das and Maharishi Valmiki. After this he flagged off the fifth Vande Bharat Express and Bharat Gaurav Kashi Darshan train at KSR railway station in Bangalore. After this, PM Modi inaugurated Terminal 2 of Kempegowda International Airport. It has been built at a cost of around Rs 5,000 crore. This will increase the capacity of the airport from 2.5 crore passengers per annum to 5-6 crore. The gate lounge of this terminal, spread over an area of ​​about 2.5 lakh square meters, will have a seating arrangement of 5,932 passengers.
The journey from Chennai to Bangalore will be completed in three hours
The Vande Bharat train from Mysore to Chennai will be the first semi-high-speed train in South India. According to railway officials, there are many trains from Bangalore to Chennai like Shatabdi Express, Brindavan Express and Chennai Mail. However, this line will have a unique train in its own right in terms of speed and facilities. Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai tweeted on Wednesday with a certificate from the World Book of Records, saying that it is a matter of pride for us that the Statue of Prosperity is the first and tallest bronze statue of the founder of a city according to the World Book of Records. Is. Tribute to Kempegowda, the founder of Bangalore.
Unveiling 108 feet statue of Kempegowda
PM Modi also unveiled a 108 feet statue of Nadaprabhu Kempegowda today. According to the World Book of Records, this is the first and tallest bronze statue of a city's founder. It is called the Statue of Prosperity and is built to remember the contribution of the city's founder Kempegowda towards the development of Bangalore.
A 220-tonne statue has been installed at the airport A 220-tonne statue has been installed at the Kempegowda International Airport. There is only a sword weighing four tons in it. Apart from the statue, the project has a heritage theme park in 23 acres of area dedicated to the 16th century Sardar, at a total cost of around Rs 84 crore. Kempegowda, a feudal ruler under the erstwhile Vijayanagara Empire, founded Bangalore in 1537. He is respected among the Vokkaliga community, who are more numerous in old Mysore and other parts of southern Karnataka.
Renowned sculptor and Padma Bhushan awardee Ram Vanji Sutar has designed the statue. Sutar built the 'Statue of Unity' in Gujarat and the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore. As a harbinger of the unveiling, 'mrittik' (sacred soil) was collected from over 22,000 places across the state, which was symbolically mixed with the soil under one of the statue's four towers. 21 special vehicles had collected sacred soil including villages, towns and cities during the last two weeks.
Andhra Pradesh to lay foundation stone for 6 lane corridor
On November 12, the PM will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for projects worth Rs 10,500 crore in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. He will lay the foundation stone for the Andhra Pradesh section of the six-lane greenfield Raipur-Visakhapatnam Economic Corridor. It will be constructed at a cost of Rs 3,750 crore. Telangana: PM will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of 9,500 crore projects in Ramagundam, Telangana in the name of the nation.
He will dedicate the fertilizer plant at Ramagundam to the nation. The foundation stone of this project was laid by Modi in 2016. The plant will provide indigenous Neem Coated Urea production of 12.7 LMT per annum.