Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Bengaluru on Friday to launch the Bengaluru Metro’s Pink Line and dedicate infrastructure projects worth more than Rs 15,600 crore across Karnataka, including a new Vande Bharat Express service and major energy and railway works.
Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar received Modi at HAL airport. Governor Sudha Yadav was also present. After his arrival, the Prime Minister attended the golden jubilee celebrations of Prashanti Kutiram, the headquarters of S-VYASA.
Modi is scheduled to flag off the Bengaluru Metro’s Pink Line at 12.45 pm. A public programme is expected to begin at around 1.15 pm, during which projects valued at over Rs 15,600 crore will be dedicated to the nation, according to the report.
The projects include the Bengaluru-Mangaluru-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express, which will connect Bengaluru with coastal Karnataka and Madgaon in Goa. The package also covers an 80,000-tonne underground LPG storage cavern at Mangaluru and MRPL’s Devangonthi Marketing Terminal.
The Prime Minister will also dedicate railway track-doubling and electrification works, along with four redeveloped railway stations. Renewable energy transmission projects are included in the infrastructure programme, expanding the day’s agenda beyond urban transport to rail capacity, energy logistics and fuel storage.
The Pink Line is among the major additions to Bengaluru’s mass-transit network. Its scheduled launch comes as the city continues to expand its metro system to serve a growing metropolitan region and provide an alternative to road-based travel. The source report does not provide the line’s length, station count, opening timetable for passenger services or the expected daily ridership.
The programme also includes the foundation stone for a compressed biogas plant at Haralakunte in Bengaluru. The plant is part of the day’s energy and infrastructure announcements, although details about its capacity, investment and completion timeline were not provided in the report.
Modi is scheduled to travel to Mysuru later in the day for a tree plantation programme at Bharat Vann under the ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ initiative. He will also inaugurate COSMOS-Mysuru Planetarium, described in the report as India’s first LED dome planetarium, and address public gatherings in both Bengaluru and Mysuru.
