Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Varanasi on July 13 to unveil new projects totaling Rs 1,200 crore. According to Kaushal Raj District Magistrate Sharma and Deepak Agrawal Divisional Commissioner, the PMO has not yet provided a precise date although he could visit Varanasi between July 7 and July 10.
Maximum 11 of the 33 completed projects worth a total of Rs 600 crore are the responsibility of the urban development division and are being completed by Smart City.
According to officials, these 11 projects include phase-I work at Namo Ghat a bathing jetty CNG boat infrastructure development for the Lahartara-Chowkaghat flyover Dashashwamedh market complex, and sewage projects.
Twenty-two other projects from the PWD home department including the construction of a new police station sports electricity higher education women's and children's welfare tourism religious affairs and Jal Shakti departments have also been listed.
The Prime Minister will lay the cornerstone for several significant projects including the six-lane widening of the Lahartara BHU-Vijaya crossing the four-lane widening and strengthening of the Kutcheri-Sandada road and the four-lane widening of the road from the Pandeypur flyover to the ring road all of which cost more than Rs 242 crore.
