Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Gujarat on October 30 and 31 for a two-day programme spanning Banaskantha in North Gujarat and Ekta Nagar, home of the Statue of Unity, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said in a release on Thursday, October 29. In Banaskantha he will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for development projects worth over Rs 14,000 crore, release about Rs 19,000 crore as the 24th instalment of PM-KISAN, and flag off two train services, ANI reported.
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The visit begins on the morning of October 30 at Bhildi in Banaskantha, where the Prime Minister will visit the Embryo Transfer Technology–IVF Laboratory and dedicate the Bharat Bovine Breeding and Research Centre (BBBRC) to the nation. Spread over 127 acres, the centre is designed to strengthen bovine breeding and genetic improvement and will be the country's first facility dedicated to the Kankrej cattle breed, expected to accelerate breed improvement by 10 to 20 times, IANS reported.
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Metro extensions, an eight-lane highway and dairy plants
In Banaskantha, Modi will lay the foundation stones for two Banas Dairy Bio-CNG plants at Tharad and Radhanpur, able to process 75 and 100 metric tonnes of cattle dung a day, and for the Ahmedabad Metro Phase-2A airport extension — over 6 km with five stations from Koteshwar Road to the airport — and the Phase-2B GIFT City extension, over 3.3 km with three stations. He will also launch the widening of the Ahmedabad–Mehsana Road (State Highway-41) from four lanes to eight at a cost of around Rs 2,600 crore, ANI reported.
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The programme also includes foundation stones for 4,030 new child-friendly Anganwadi centres and the inauguration of 361 completed centres — an Rs 800 crore initiative expected to benefit more than four lakh people — the dedication of 521 Agriculture Infrastructure Fund projects worth around Rs 4,950 crore, the expansion of the potato processing plant at Sanadar, and a new automated storage system for UHT products at Palanpur. Modi will flag off the Ahmedabad (Sabarmati)–Varanasi Express and the Mehsana–Becharaji–Sabarmati MEMU, and mark the start of on-ground work under 12 horticulture clusters covering about 1.46 lakh hectares and over 1.3 lakh farmers, two of them potato clusters in North Gujarat, IANS reported.
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PM-KISAN release follows the earlier date announcement
The Rs 19,000 crore PM-KISAN release is the on-ground event for the 24th instalment whose October 30 date was announced earlier, on October 23, and reported by Awaaz Punjab at the time: Rs 2,000 will go by direct transfer to each eligible farmer family, with reports putting the number of beneficiary families at over 9.3 crore. What is new in Thursday's PMO release is the full visit programme built around that release — the project launches, the two train services and the Ekta Nagar schedule.
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Bharat Parv, Ekta Prakash Parv and Ekta Diwas at Ekta Nagar
On the evening of October 30, Modi will inaugurate Bharat Parv 2026 at Ekta Nagar, a festival of state and Union Territory culture, food, handicrafts and tourism that runs until November 15, and witness Ekta Prakash Parv, an illumination festival using more than 1.5 crore LED lights, including a 530-metre illuminated Valley of Flowers Road and a 180-metre Glow Tunnel, before attending the Narmada Aarti, ANI reported.
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On October 31 he will offer floral tributes at the Statue of Unity and launch projects worth over Rs 400 crore in Ekta Nagar, including a sewage and water treatment plant, facade lighting, the upgraded Narmada Ghat, an IRCTC hotel and the Rainforest, Unity and Eco Trail, with foundation stones for the Gora–Bhandra Road, a zero-waste smart waste-management project, Khalwani eco-tourism and the Cactus and Butterfly Garden. He will then join the Rashtriya Ekta Diwas celebrations for Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's 151st birth anniversary, where the Ekta Parade by central and state police forces will spotlight the security forces' fight against Left-Wing Extremism, and a National School of Drama presentation, 'Naxal Mukt Bharat', will feature around 2,000 artists from 126 formerly affected districts, IANS reported.
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The two-day visit ties together farm support, dairy and cattle science, metro and highway connectivity and the national-unity celebrations at the Statue of Unity — with the PM-KISAN transfer on October 30 the single largest payout of the programme.