PM To Launch Developmental Initiatives In Pune Tomorrow, Obtain Lokmanya Tilak Award

Pune:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday go to Maharashtra’s Pune metropolis the place he’ll lay the muse stone of varied improvement tasks and likewise obtain the Lokmanya Tilak Nationwide Award.

After his arrival, PM Modi will carry out ‘darshan and pooja’ at Dagdusheth Mandir.

At 11.45 am, he shall be conferred the Lokmanya Tilak Nationwide Award, constituted by Tilak Smarak Mandir Belief in 1983, to honour the legacy of Lokmanya Tilak, as per a press release issued by the Press Info Bureau (PIB).

The award is given to individuals who have labored for the progress and improvement of the nation and whose contribution can solely be appeared upon as exceptional and extraordinary, the PIB assertion stated.

It’s introduced yearly on August 1, the dying anniversary of Lokmanya Tilak, the assertion stated.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar has been invited as chief visitor for the occasion, organisers earlier stated. Rohit Tilak, vp of the belief, confirmed on Monday that Pawar will attend the award ceremony.

“There is no such thing as a change within the programme. Pawar Saheb, who’s the chief visitor, shall be attending the occasion. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, deputy chief ministers Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar, Maharashtra Governor Ramesh Bais, and Sushil Kumar Shinde, who can be a trustee, can even be attending the occasion,” he stated.

Rohit Tilak stated theirs is an apolitical organisation and the award has been conferred on individuals from all walks of life.

PM Modi will grow to be the forty first recipient of the award. It has beforehand been introduced to luminaries corresponding to Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma, Pranab Mukherjee, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indira Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, NR Narayana Murthy, E Sreedharan, amongst others.

At 12.45 pm on Tuesday, the Prime Minister will flag off Metro trains and inaugurate and lay the muse stone for varied improvement tasks, the assertion stated.

PM Modi will flag off Metro trains marking the inauguration of providers on accomplished sections of the 2 corridors of Pune Metro Part I. These sections are from Phugewadi station to Civil Court docket station and Garware School station to Ruby Corridor Clinic station, it stated.

The inspiration stone for the undertaking was additionally laid by PM Modi in 2016.

The brand new sections will join vital locations of Pune metropolis like Shivaji Nagar, Civil Court docket, Pune Municipal Company workplace, Pune RTO and Pune Railway Station.

The inauguration is a crucial step in direction of realising the imaginative and prescient of the Prime Minister to offer the residents with fashionable and environment-friendly mass speedy city transport methods throughout the nation, the assertion stated.

Prime Minister Modi can even inaugurate the Waste to Power Plant underneath Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Company (PCMC).

Developed at a value of about Rs 300 crore, it’ll dissipate about 2.5 lakh MT of waste yearly to supply electrical energy, the assertion stated.

Shifting forward in direction of the mission of reaching housing for all, Prime Minister Modi will hand over greater than 1,280 homes constructed underneath the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana by PCMC.

He can even hand over greater than 2,650 PMAY homes constructed by the Pune Municipal Company. Additional, PM Modi can even lay the muse stone for round 1,190 PMAY homes to be constructed by the PCMC, and of greater than 6,400 homes constructed by the Pune Metropolitan Area Improvement Authority, the assertion stated.

In the meantime, the opposition Congress’s youth wing has put up posters in some components of Pune metropolis as a mark of protest towards the unrest in Manipur.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone I) Sandeep Singh Gill stated they’re in contact with the Pune Municipal Company to take away these unauthorised posters.

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