Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a two-day visit to Tamil Nadu and Karnataka on Friday which will see him inaugurate the Khelo India Youth Games 2023 at Chennai and Boeing's new global engineering and technology centre campus near Bengaluru.
He will be in Bengaluru on Friday morning to inaugurate American aircraft manufacturer Boeing's new global engineering and technology centre campus near here. Built at a cost of Rs 1,600 crore, the 43-acre state-of-the-art Boeing India Engineering and Technology Centre (BIETC) campus is the aviation giant's largest such investment outside the US, they said.
The prime minister will also launch the 'Boeing Sukanya Programme' that "aims to support the entry of more girl children from across India into the country's growing aviation sector", an official said.
After that, Modi will leave for Tamil Nadu to inaugurate the Khelo India Games is being held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here. Over 5,500 athletes will take part in 26 competitive sports from January 19-31, the state government said on Thursday. Through this mega event, the government hopes to repeat the spectacular success and fame achieved by organising the 44th Chennai Chess Olympiad in 2022.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit multiple temples in Tamil Nadu, including Sri Ranganathaswamy temple in Tiruchirappalli and Sri Arulmigu Ramanathaswamy temple in Rameswaram on January 20-21.
At Sri Ranganathaswamy temple, Modi will listen to scholars reciting verses from the Kamba Ramayanam on January 20 morning. He will reach Rameswaram in the afternoon and perform darshan and pooja at Sri Arulmigu Ramanathaswamy temple, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.
On January 21, Modi will visit Kothandaramaswamy temple in Dhanushkodi. The prime minister will also visit Arichal Munai which is believed to be the place from where the Ram Setu was built.
Earlier in the day, Modi is in Mumbai to inaugurate or lay the foundation stones of several development projects in Maharashtra's Solapur on Friday, according to an official release.
At a public programme scheduled to be held around 10.45 am in the southern Maharashtra city, he will lay the foundation stones of eight AMRUT (Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation) projects in the state worth around Rs 2,000 crore, it said. He will also dedicate more than 90,000 houses built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban).
Further, the PM will dedicate 15,000 houses of the Raynagar Housing Society in Solapur whose beneficiaries include thousands of "handloom workers, vendors, powerloom workers, rag pickers, Bidi workers and drivers", it said.
(With PTI inputs)
