Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Karnataka and Gujarat on 13 and 14 November, launching or laying the foundation for projects worth over ₹15,600 crore in Bengaluru, flagging off a new Vande Bharat Express and visiting the Ambaji temple.
13 November: Bengaluru and Mysuru
At about 10:45 am Modi will join the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Prashanti Kutiram, the campus of the Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (S-VYASA), which was founded in 1975. He will lay the foundation stone of an administrative block and launch the institution's off-campus in Thiruvananthapuram. The event also marks the birth centenary of H.V. Sheshadri, an RSS leader who was its Sarkaryavah from 1987 to 2000.
At about 12:45 pm he will flag off Bengaluru Metro's Pink Line stretch from Kalena Agrahara to Tavarekere, built at about ₹3,470 crore, and ride the metro from Tavarekere to IIM Bangalore station.
At about 1:15 pm he will launch projects across urban mobility, power transmission, renewable energy, petroleum, waste management and railways. They include:
- transmission schemes to bring renewable power to the grid: about ₹4,450 crore for Koppal-II and Gadag-II (about 2 GW) and about ₹1,370 crore for the Bidar solar zone (2.5 GW), plus foundation stones for schemes worth over ₹3,450 crore and over ₹1,100 crore at Davanagere, Chitradurga and Ballari;
- India's largest underground LPG storage cavern in Mangaluru, built for over ₹850 crore, with 80,000 tonnes capacity and a 9.4-km pipeline;
- MRPL's Devangonthi marketing terminal in Bengaluru (₹330 crore) and a GAIL compressed biogas plant at Haralakunte that will process about 300 tonnes of municipal waste a day into 12.6 tonnes of biogas;
- four redeveloped Amrit Bharat stations: Chamarajanagar, Chikkamagaluru, Sakleshpur and Subrahmanya Road;
- the 45-km Bagalkot–Wandal rail doubling and electrification of the 55-km Sakleshpur–Subrahmanya Road ghat section, which completes electrification of the Bengaluru–Mangaluru route;
- the flag-off of the Bengaluru–Mangaluru–Madgaon Vande Bharat Express.
At about 3:30 pm in Mysuru he will inaugurate the COSMOS-Mysuru Planetarium.
14 November: Gujarat
At about noon Modi will offer prayers at the Ambaji temple in Banaskantha, one of the 51 Shakti Peethas.
Source: official release by the Prime Minister's Office, issued through the Press Information Bureau, Government of India (11 NOV 2026 5:14PM by PIB Delhi). Read the full official text: PM to visit Karnataka and Gujarat on 13-14 November.
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- 1.PM to visit Karnataka and Gujarat on 13-14 November — Press Information Bureau, Government of India
