PM Modi to visit Kedarnath on November 5 to offer prayers, inaugurate reconstruction projects

New Delhi, October 18: In the major development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to visit the Kedarnath on November 5 to offer prayers and inaugurate Kedarpuri reconstruction projects worth Rs 250 crore.

 

After offering prayers at the shrine, the PM will unveil a statue and a building dedicated to Adi Shankaracharya. Modi has visited Kedarnath several times since becoming prime minister in 2014. He could not come to Kedarnath last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami confirmed Modi's visit next month. He said, apart from offering prayers at the Himalayan temple, the prime minister is likely to inaugurate Kedarpuri reconstruction projects worth ₹250 crores. “The prime minister is also likely to lay foundation stones of the second phase of Kedarpuri reconstruction projects worth ₹150 crores," Dhami said.

 

 

This will be his second visit to the state within a month. Earlier, he had visited the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Rishikesh on October 7 to inaugurate an oxygen plant there.

 

 

The prime minister has been closely monitoring Kedarpuri reconstruction projects. The portals of Kedarnath are scheduled to be closed for winter on November 6 on the occasion of Bhaiyya Dooj.

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