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PM Modi Karnataka Visit 2026: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is arriving on an important visit to Karnataka today i.e. on Friday, 13 November 2026. During his one-day visit to Karnataka, the Prime Minister will inaugurate, inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of development projects worth more than ₹ 15,600 crore related to infrastructure, urban transport, railways, renewable energy and science education in the capital Bengaluru and cultural city Mysuru. The Prime Minister will land at Bengaluru’s HAL airport at around 10:05 am, from where he will begin his day’s hectic schedule. Tight security arrangements have been made in both Bengaluru and Mysuru cities regarding his arrival and there is tremendous enthusiasm among the general public about these new projects.
According to the official program released by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), PM Modi will attend the golden jubilee celebrations of ‘Prashanti Kutiram’, the residential headquarters of Swami Vivekananda Yoga Research Institute (S-VYASA) located in Jigani, at around 10:45 am. On this occasion, he will lay the foundation stone of the Golden Jubilee Administrative Block, inaugurate the off-campus center of the institute in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala and meet veteran thinker late H.V. Will address the meeting organized to commemorate the birth centenary of Sheshadri ji. After this, at around 12:45 pm, the Prime Minister will flag off the elevated corridor of the much-awaited ‘Pink Line’ of Bengaluru Metro at Tavarekere metro station and will also ride the metro himself from Tavarekere to IIM Bangalore metro station. With the commencement of this new metro line, lakhs of daily commuters of South Bengaluru will get great relief from heavy traffic jams.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate various development projects worth over ₹15,600 crore to the nation at a grand ceremony to be held at the auditorium of IIM Bengaluru at around 1:15 pm. Giving a new dimension to rail connectivity, PM Modi will flag off the Bengaluru-Mangaluru-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express, which will connect major tourist and business centers like Hassan, Sakleshpur, Mangaluru, Udupi, Murudeshwar, Gokarna and Karwar with Madgaon in Goa. Along with this, he will also inaugurate four railway stations redeveloped under Amrit Bharat Station Scheme (Chamarajanagar, Chikkamagaluru, Sakleshpur and Subrahmanya Road), 45 km long Bagalkot-Vandal rail doubling and electrification of 55 km long Sakleshpur-Subrahmanya Road ghat rail section. In the energy and petroleum sector, he will also inaugurate India’s largest underground LPG storage cavern (80,000 MT capacity) built at a cost of over ₹850 crore in Mangaluru and renewable and solar energy transmission projects at Koppal-II, Gadag-II and Bidar.
After the programs in Bengaluru, Prime Minister Modi will leave for Mysuru by air at 2:30 pm. After reaching Mysuru, he will first participate in the plantation program in ‘Bharat Vann’, a 17.63 acre urban forest being developed using Japanese Miyawaki technology under the ‘One Tree in the Name of Mother’ campaign. After this, between 3:30 to 4:00 pm, PM Modi will grandly inaugurate the ‘Cosmos-Mysuru Planetarium’ built within the Mysuru University campus at the foothills of Chamundi Hills. This is India’s first LED dome planetarium designed by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA). Unlike traditional projector-based planetariums, its 15 meter tilted dome is fitted with 42 million individual LEDs across approximately 6,150 panels, providing an extremely lifelike and immersive experience of the universe and astronomy in real-time. Special astronomical shows will be shown here in Kannada, Hindi and English languages.
After inaugurating the planetarium in Mysuru and addressing the public meeting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave from there at around 6:05 pm. In the second phase of his two-day visit, tomorrow i.e. Saturday, 14 November 2026, the Prime Minister will visit and offer special prayers at the famous Ambaji Temple, one of the 51 Shaktipeeths located in Banaskantha district of Gujarat. These projects being launched today in Karnataka will not only take the state’s infrastructure and green energy potential to new heights, but will also generate new interest in science and space research among the youth and students.