Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Goa on Sunday on a brief visit to lay foundation for two major projects, ahead of the state assembly elections early next year.
During his three-hour visit to the BJP-ruled state, second visit to the state in two months (after the BRICS summit last month), PM Modi will remotely lay the foundation stone of a greenfield airport at the Mopa plateau and an electronic city in Tuem – both located in North Goa’s Pernem sub-district.
The Mopa airport is Goa’s first civilian airport being developed by GMR Airports and the Tuem Electronic City is expected to host manufacturing units for electronics components, envisaged under the Make in India scheme.
Goa chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Saturday said the prime minister is unlikely to make any election-related announcement in his address to a 10,000-strong crowd after laying the foundation stones from Shama Prasad Mukherjee stadium outside Panaji.
By Baishakhi Dutta
