Nagpur: Prime minister Narendra Modi is landing here on Saturday morning and will be spending the day in Maharashtra. Launching of two new trains virtually, Eklavya schools for tribals, an irrigation scheme and a rail electrification project will be the highlights of the visit that will see him halting at Pandharkawda in Yavatmal and later at Dhule in Khandesh.For a couple of hours on Friday morning there was speculation that Modi may cancel the visit in the aftermath of Pulwama attack that killed over 40 CRPF personnel on Thursday. But with Lok Sabha elections likely to be announced any time and the political compulsion to announce many projects that could be reflected in the government’s progress sheet, the Pandharkawda and Dhule visits got clearance.As per official sources, the prime minister will be landing by a special plane at the city airport at 9.55 am from Delhi. He will be received by Governor C Vidyasagar Rao, chief minister Devedra Fadnavis, Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari. Immediately after that, accompanied by the three, Modi will take a helicopter to Pandharkwada reaching there by 10.30am.At the public rally venue, he will first interact with select women self-help groups members for around 20 minutes. Once he gets on the dais, he will virtually inaugurate Eklavya Model Residential School of Nanded. The state-of-the-art school with a capacity of 420 is aimed at improving education quality of tribal students. He will then hand over keys to selected beneficiaries marking e-gruhpravesh of houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.This will be followed by flagging off of Ajni-Pune AC train through a video link. Modi will then press the button to lay foundation stone of roads under Central Road Fund. He will also distribute cheques and certificates under Maharashtra State Rural Livelihoods Mission to women SHGs.While Yavatmal guardian minister Madan Yerawar and local MP and Union minister of state for home Hansraj Ahir have been alloted three minutes each for welcome addresses, Fadnavis and Gadkari get 10 minutes each to address an expected gathering of over a one lakh comprising women SHG members, farmers and tribals. Modi will then deliver his speech that could easily go on for at least half an hour.Modi, Rao, Fadnavis and Gadkari will then fly back to Nagpur to take the plane for Dhule. Before his public address there, Modi will inaugurate Lower Panazara medium irrigation project, lay foundation stones for Dhule water supply project and for Jalgaon-Manmad 3rd line, a new rail line connecting Dhule and Nardana. He will also flag off Bhusaval-Bandra Khandesh Express and an electrification work.

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