Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a two-day visit to Surat and Varanasi on Sunday which will see him inaugurate the new integrated terminal building at Surat Airport and the Surat Diamond Bourse, tagged the world's largest corporate office.
A press release from the Prime Minister's Office said Modi will inaugurate the new integrated terminal building at Surat Airport around 10:45 am. The new integrated terminal building is equipped to handle 1,200 domestic passengers and 600 international passengers during peak hours and has provision for further increasing the peak hour capacity to 3,000 passengers with the annual handling capacity increasing to 55 lakh passengers.
Following this, at around 11:15 AM, the Prime Minister will inaugurate the Surat Diamond Bourse, the statement said. The Diamond Bourse will be a global centre for trading for both rough and polished diamonds as well as jewellery. It will comprise a state-of-the-art 'Customs Clearance House' for import and export, jewellery mall for retail jewellery business and a facility of international banking and safe vaults, the statement added.
He will then leave for his parliamentary constituency Varanasi to participate in the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra around 3.30 pm. At around 5.15 pm, he will inaugurate the Kashi Tamil Sangamam 2023 at Namo Ghat. He will also flag off the Kanyakumari -Varanasi Tamil Sangamam train.
"Tomorrow evening onwards, I will be among my sisters and brothers of Kashi. I will take part in the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra and later will inaugurate the @KTSangamam, a landmark forum that celebrates our unique cultural traditions and diversity," Modi wrote on social media X on Saturday.
On December 18, the Prime Minister will visit the Swaraveda Mahamandir at around 10.45 am. Modi will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for several development projects worth more than Rs 19,150 crore. Modi will inaugurate the New Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Nagar-New Bhaupur Dedicated Freight Corridor Project built at a cost of around Rs. 10,900 crore.
Other railway projects which will be inaugurated include the Ballia-Ghazipur City rail line doubling project and; the Indara-Dohrighat rail line gauge conversion project.
He will flag off the second Varanasi-New Delhi Vande Bharat Express train, Dohrighat-Mau MEMU train and a pair of Long Haul goods trains at the newly inaugurated Dedicated Freight Corridor. He will also flag off the 10,000th locomotive made by Banaras Locomotive Works, it said.
(With inputs from PTI)
