BENGALURU: Union Minister of State for Agriculture, Farmers Welfare and Food Processing Industries, Shobha Karandlaje, declared open a Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Kendra at Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal in Bengaluru on Tuesday. Bengaluru Central MP P C Mohan and Divisional Railway Manager Yogesh Mohan were also seen with her.
Earlier, this kendra was launched here and at Bangarpet railway station by Prime Minister Modi from Ahmedabad virtually along with numerous other railway projects worth Rs 1.06 lakh crore across the country.
Karandlaje also declared open the 'One Station One Product' stall dealing with millets at the SMVT station. This was among the 40 such stalls Modi had launched across the Bengaluru Railway Division.
The PM also flagged off the Mysuru-MGR Chennai-Mysuru Vande Bharat Express (Train no. 20663/20664) and the Kalaburagi-SMVT Bengaluru-Kalaburagi Vande Bharat Express (Train no 22231/22232) along with eight other VB trains across India.
The trains stopped at multiple routes enroute with another flagging off organized at the local level. At Krishnarajapuram station, MLA BA Basavaraj and MLC Gopinath Reddy launched the VB launched earlier in the day from Chennai to Mysuru.
The redeveloped Goods shed at Penukonda, a Gati Shakti Multimodal Cargo Terminal at Oddarahalli near Doddaballapur were among the infrastructure projects launched in the South Western Railway Zone.