Dasara-like illumination for PM’s visit to Mysuru

NT Correspondent
Mysuru

The streets in and around a star hotel in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi will stay overnight on June 20 on the eve of the International Day of Yoga celebrations, will be illuminated as is done during the Dasara festival.

Co-operation and district- in-charge Minister S.T.Somashekhar said this after inspecting the hotel in which Modi will stay, the roads on which he will travel and security arrangements for the PM following his participation in a yoga event organised in front of Mysuru palace on June 21.He said Mysuru City Corporation is spending Rs 15 crore on asphalting of roads and repair of footpaths in the Central Business District of which Rs 10 crore has been released to the corporation.

As many 15 roads have been asphalted and footpaths remodelled. Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Company Limited has been asked to illuminate the roads on which the PM will travel along with the illumination of Mysuru Palace. Somashekar said the PM’s interactive programme with beneficiaries of various central government schemes in the last three years would be organised in consultation with the Union government.

Arrangements would be made for 60,000 people to watch this programme. The PM has been requested to visit Chamundi Hill and Suttur Mutt during his visit. Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha, MLAs L Nagendra, S.A.Ramdas, Mayor Sunanda Palanethra and others were present.