PM Modi to gift 13 new projects worth Rs 1,200 cr to Varanasi in July

Varanasi will receive 13 new projects worth Rs 1,200 crore when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits his parliamentary constituency in July.

Modi will also inaugurate around 33 ready projects worth Rs 600 crore during his visit.

Divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal and district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said that the final date for the Prime Minister’s proposed visit has not been received from the PMO so far, but there is a possibility of his coming to Varanasi between July 7 and 10.

The officials are finalising the list of projects ready for inauguration by the Prime Minister.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed officials that only the projects which would start operating immediately after inauguration, should be included in the list.