BENGALURU — Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake an official visit to Karnataka and Gujarat on November 13 and 14, inaugurating and laying foundation stones for infrastructure, energy, and transportation initiatives valued at over ₹15,600 crore.
Schedule of Events in Karnataka
The visit begins on November 13 in Bengaluru at 10:45 AM, where the Prime Minister will attend the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Prashanti Kutiram, the headquarters of the Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (S-VYASA). During the ceremony, he will launch the foundation stone for the institution’s Golden Jubilee Administrative Block and inaugurate its new off-campus facility in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The gathering also commemorates the birth centenary of writer and organizer Sri Hongasandra Venkataramaiah Seshadri.
At 12:45 PM, Prime Minister Modi will inspect the newly built Pink Line of the Bengaluru Metro, inaugurating the section spanning Kalena Agrahara to Tavarekere—a ₹3,470 crore project—and traveling on the line between Tavarekere and IIM Bengaluru stations.
Following a public address in Bengaluru at 1:15 PM to launch the statewide infrastructure projects, the Prime Minister will travel to Mysuru. At 3:30 PM, he will join a tree-planting activity at Bharat Van under the Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam initiative, which utilizes the Miyawaki technique across 17.63 acres to cultivate over 200,000 native trees. At 4:00 PM, he will inaugurate the Cosmos-Mysuru Planetarium at the University of Mysore campus.
Energy and Urban Transport Infrastructure
The ₹15,600 crore development portfolio encompasses major additions to India’s energy and transit networks:
- Petroleum & Gas Facilities: Dedication of India’s largest underground LPG storage facility in Mangaluru, constructed at a cost exceeding ₹850 crore with an 80,000-metric-tonne capacity, along with a 9.4 km connecting pipeline. The Prime Minister will also open the ₹330 crore Devangonthi Marketing Terminal for Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) in Bengaluru and lay the foundation stone for a GAIL compressed biogas plant in Haralkunte designed to process 300 tonnes of municipal waste daily.
- Renewable Energy Grid Interconnection: Commissioning of Phase-II transmission projects at Koppal-II and Gadag-II (₹4,450 crore) to integrate 2 GW of renewable capacity, alongside a solar transmission pooling station in Bidar (₹1,370 crore) for 2.5 GW. Foundation stones will also be laid for transmission integration schemes in Davanagere, Chitradurga, and Ballari totaling over ₹4,550 crore.
- Rail Operations: Flagging off the new Bengaluru-Mangaluru-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express connecting Karnataka’s coast with Goa. The itinerary includes inaugurating four redeveloped rail hubs under the Amrut Bharat Station Scheme—Chamarajanagar, Chikkamagaluru, Sakleshpur, and Subrahmanya Road—dedicating the double-tracked 45-km Bagalkot-Wandal section, and marking the complete electrification of the Bengaluru-Mangaluru corridor via the Sakleshpur-Subrahmanya Road Ghat section.
Scientific and Cultural Milestones
The Cosmos-Mysuru Planetarium, developed by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics at the base of Chamundi Hills, stands as India’s first LED dome planetarium. Built with a 15-meter tilted dome containing roughly 6,150 panels and 42 million individual LEDs, the system replaces traditional projector mechanisms with direct LED illumination for astronomical education and public shows.
On November 14, the Prime Minister will travel to Banaskantha, Gujarat, to offer prayers at the Ambaji Temple, one of the 51 traditional Shakti Peethas.
According to an official statement issued by Press Information Bureau (PIB) Delhi.
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