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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil the Kashi Vishwanath corridor in Varanasi during a two-day visit to his Lok Sabha constituency on December 13 and 14. Before that, he is also expected to visit Gorakhpur on December 7 to inaugurate AIIMS, nine hi-tech ICMR laboratories at BRD Medical College, and a fertiliser plant. The fertiliser plant, once operated by a central PSU, was closed for the last three decades.
On December 13, Modi will be inaugurating his dream project, ‘Shri Kashi Vishwanath Dham’, following which each house in Varanasi will receive  ‘prasad’ from the temple as also a book on the project. Also, a programme, ‘Bhavya Kashi Divya Kashi’, will be organised on both days of his visit.
Significantly, during the 2017 elections, Modi had campaigned in Varanasi for three days and attended different programmes. This time too, he will be taking part in more than a dozen events during his visit.
He will attend a dialogue programme with all the chief ministers of BJP-ruled states as well as with over 200 mayors. The PM is also likely to address a public meeting at the inauguration of the Kashi Vishwanath corridor. He may also visit Sewapuri, the country’s first model block. Along with this, the PM is expected to interact with farmers on “zero budget" farming and inspect a newly-constructed biogas plant in Shahanshahpur.
In Gorakhpur, the fertiliser plant built by Hindustan Fertilizers and Chemical Ltd will produce 12.7 lakh metric tonnes of neem-coated urea annually. Large-scale production of fertilisers could help reduce the import of fertilisers.
The factory of Fertilizer Corporation of India, established in 1968 at Gorakhpur, was closed after an accident in 1990. After that, no attempt was made by the previous governments to revive the fertiliser plant.
After becoming an MP from Gorakhpur in 1998, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath pushed for revival of the fertiliser plant or setting up of a new plant. After becoming prime minister in 2014, Narendra Modi accorded priority to the demand by Yogi Adityanath and on July 22, 2016, he laid the foundation stone of a new plant.
After Adityanath became the CM in March 2017, the construction work of the new fertiliser factory started. Under this joint venture, about Rs 8,000 crore have been spent. A special rubber dam has also been built in the factory premises at the cost of Rs 30 crore. The installed production capacity of this fertiliser plant is 3,850 MT per day while the annual capacity is 12.7 lakh MT.
The fertiliser plant will ensure large-scale supply of neem-coated urea in eastern Uttar Pradesh as well as in adjoining states and even in Nepal. The trial production in the plant will begin on November 30.