PM To Launch Developmental Projects In Pune

Receive Lokmanya Tilak Award…

On Tuesday, 01 August 2023, PM Modi will visit Pune.He will lay the foundation stone for a number of projects.

He will receive the Lokmanya Tilak National Award as well.

After his arrival in Pune, Prime Minister Modi will perform pooja at Dagdusheth Mandir.

At 11.45 am, he will be conferred the Lokmanya Tilak National Award, constituted by Tilak Smarak Mandir Trust in 1983.

This is in honor of the legacy of Lokmanya Tilak, as per a statement issued by the Press Information Bureau (PIB).

The award is given to those who have worked for the progress and development of the country.

Their contribution can only be looked upon as remarkable and extraordinary, it said.

It is presented every year on August 1, the death anniversary of Lokmanya Tilak, the statement said.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar has been invited as chief guest for the event, organizers said.

PM Modi will become the 41st recipient of the award.

It has previously been presented to luminaries such as Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, Pranab Mukherjee, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indira Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, N R Narayana Murthy, E Sreedharan, among others.

At 12.45 pm on Tuesday, the prime minister will flag off Metro trains and inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for various development projects, the PIB statement said.

PM Modi will flag off Metro trains marking the inauguration of services on completed sections of the two corridors of Pune Metro Phase I.

These sections are from Phugewadi station to Civil Court station and Garware College station to Ruby Hall Clinic station, it said.

The new sections will connect important places of Pune city like Shivaji Nagar, Civil Court, Pune Municipal Corporation office, Pune RTO, and Pune Railway Station.

The inauguration is an important step towards realizing the vision of the prime minister to provide the citizens with modern and environment-friendly mass rapid urban transport systems across the country, the statement said.

PM Modi will also inaugurate the Waste to Energy Plant under Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC).

Developed at a cost of about Rs. 300 crores, it will use up about 2.5 lakh MT of waste annually to produce electricity, the statement said.

Moving on to the mission of achieving housing for all, PM Modi will hand over more than 1,280 houses constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) by the PCMC.

PM Modi will hand over more than 2,650 PMAY houses constructed by the Pune Municipal Corporation.

Further, PM Modi will also lay the foundation stone for 1,190 PMAY houses to be constructed by the PCMC.

More than 6,400 houses were constructed by the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority, the statement said.