PM in Pune on Aug 1, to be conferred Lokmanya Tilak National Award

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Pune in Maharashtra on Tuesday during which he will perform pooja at Dagdusheth Mandir will be conferred Lokmanya Tilak National Award and will lay the foundation stone for various development projectsPrime Minister Modi will visit Pune on August 1 and at around 11 am he will perform darshan and pooja at Dagdusheth Mandir a statement issued by the Prime Ministers Office PMO saidAt 1145 am he will be conferred the Lokmanya Tilak National Award Thereafter at 1245 pm the Prime Minister will flag off metro trains and inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for various development projectsModi will flag off Metro trains marking 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 saidThe foundation stone for the project was also laid by Prime Minister Modi in 2016The new sections will connect important places of the Pune city like Shivaji Nagar Civil Court Pune Municipal Corporation office Pune RTO and Pune Railway StationThe inauguration is an important step towards realising the vision of the Prime Minister to provide the citizens with modern and environmentfriendly mass rapid urban transport systems across the country the statement saidThe design of some of the metro stations on the route draws inspiration from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj it saidThe Chhatrapati Sambhaji Udyan Metro Station and Deccan Gymkhana metro stations have a unique design resembling the headgear worn by soldiers of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj also known as Mavala PagadiThe Shivaji Nagar underground Metro station has a distinctive design which reminds of the forts built by Chhatrapati Shivaji MaharajAnother unique feature is that the Civil Court metro station is one of the deepest metro stations in the country having the deepest point at 331 metres The station roof is made in such a manner that direct sunlight falls on the platformPrime Minister Modi will also inaugurate the Waste to Energy Plant under Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation PCMCDeveloped at a cost of about Rs 300 crore it will use up about 25 lakh MT of waste annually to produce electricityMoving ahead towards the mission of achieving housing for all Prime Minister Modi will hand over more than 1280 houses constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana by PCMCHe will also hand over more than 2650 PMAY houses constructed by the Pune Municipal Corporation Further Modi will also lay the foundation stone for around 1190 PMAY houses to be constructed by the PCMC and of more than 6400 houses constructed by the Pune Metropolitan Region Development AuthorityThe Prime Minister will also be conferred Lokmanya Tilak National AwardThe award was constituted by Tilak Smarak Mandir Trust in 1983 to honour the legacy of Lokmanya TilakThe award is given to people who have worked for the progress and development of the nation and whose contribution can only be looked upon as remarkable and extraordinaryIt is presented every year on the 1st of August Lokmanya Tilaks death anniversaryPrime Minister 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 othersThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever