Varanasi: Ahead of the festival of Diwali, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate at least 24 ready projects of Rs 375 crore and lay the foundation of 18 new projects worth Rs 520 crore in his parliamentary constituency through video conferencing.
Officials said that the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) will finalise the date of the PM’s virtual event, which is likely to be on or before November 12.
In view of the proposed event, a series of meetings to finalise the list of projects, which will be inaugurated and also those for which Modi will lay foundation, were held at divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal’s office on Thursday. The commissioner along with district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma, municipal commissioner Gaurang Rathi and other officials discussed segregation of the ready projects belonging to education sector to be excluded from the list of projects to be inaugurated by the PM in view of the promulgation of model code of conduct for MLC (teachers’ constituency) elections.