NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on January 19 and launch multiple development projects in the three states, said an official release on Wednesday.
According to an official release from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), “The Prime Minister will visit Maharashtra and, around 10.45 am, he will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects in Solapur, Maharashtra”.
Thereafter, around 2.45 pm, the Prime Minister will inaugurate the Boeing India Engineering and Technology Centre and launch the Boeing Sukanya Programme in Bengaluru, Karnataka. “Then, around 6 pm, the PM will participate in the opening ceremony of Khelo India Youth Games 2023 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu”, it said.
During a public programme in Solapur, the Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone of 8 AMRUT (Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation) projects worth around Rs 2,000 crore in Maharashtra. He will dedicate more than 90,000 houses completed under PMAY-Urban in Maharashtra.
Further, he will also dedicate 15,000 houses to Raynagar Housing Society in Solapur, whose beneficiaries comprise thousands of handloom workers, vendors, powerloom workers, ragpickers, bidi workers and drivers, among others. Further, the PM will kickstart the distribution of first and second instalments to 10,000 beneficiaries of PM-SVANIDHI in Maharashtra during the programme.
In Bengaluru, the PM Modi will inaugurate the new state-of-the-art Boeing India Engineering and Technology Center (BIETC) campus. Built with an investment of Rs 1,600 crore, the 43-acre campus is Boeing’s largest such investment outside the USA.
Boeing’s new campus in India will become a cornerstone for partnership with the vibrant startup, private and government ecosystem in India, and will help develop next-generation products and services for the global aerospace and defence industry.
The Prime Minister will also launch the Boeing Sukanya Programme which aims to support the entry of more girl children from across India into the country’s growing aviation sector. The programme will provide opportunities for girls and women from across India to learn critical skills in the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) fields and train for jobs in the aviation sector.
For young girls, the programme will create STEM Labs at 150 planned locations to help spark interest in STEM careers. The program will also provide scholarships to women who are training to be pilots.
The Prime Minister will be the chief guest at the opening ceremony of the 6th Khelo India Youth Games 2023 which will be held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai. The unwavering commitment of the Prime Minister to promote grassroots sports development and nurture budding sports talent resulted in the start of the Khelo India Youth Games.
This is the first time that Khelo India Youth Games are being held in South India. The Games will be played across four cities of Tamil Nadu, namely Chennai, Madurai, Trichy and Coimbatore from January 19-34, 2024. As per the release, the mascot for the games is Veera Mangai. Rani Velu Nachiyar, fondly called as Veera Mangai, was an Indian queen who waged a war against British colonial rule.
The mascot symbolises the valour and spirit of Indian women, embodying the strength of women’s power. The logo for the games incorporates the figure of the poet Thiruvalluvar. Over 5,600 athletes will be participating in this edition of the Khelo India Youth Games, spread across 13 days in 15 venues with 26 sporting disciplines, over 275 competitive events and one demo sport, it said.
The 26 sporting disciplines are a diverse mix of conventional sports such as Football, Volleyball, Badminton etc. and traditional sports such as Kalaripayattu, Gatka, Thang ta, Kabaddi and Yogasana. Silambam, a traditional sport of Tamil Nadu, is being introduced as a demo sport for the first time in the history of the Khelo India Youth Games.
During the inaugural ceremony, the Prime Minister will also launch and lay the foundation stone of projects related to the Broadcasting sector worth about Rs 250 crore. This includes the launch of the revamped DD Podhigai channel as DD Tamil; 12 Akashvani FM projects in 8 States; and 4 DD transmitters in Jammu and Kashmir. In addition, the Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone for 26 new FM transmitter Projects in 12 states. (ANI)