PM Modi's Pune visit: From Lokmanya Tilak award to metro trains inauguration. See schedule, traffic restrictions here

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Narendra Modi on Tuesday will visit Maharashtra's Pune city wherein he will be conferred Lokmanya Tilak National Award. Apart from this, The Prime Minister will also lay foundation stone for various development projects in the city. As per the statement issued by Prime Minister's Office (PMO), he will visit Pune at around 11 am and will perform 'darshan and pooja' at Shreemant Dagdusheth Halwai Ganpati Mandir in Budhwar Peth.

Later at 11.45 am, he will be conferred the Lokmanya Tilak National Award which was constituted by Tilak Smarak Mandir Trust in 1983, to honour the legacy of Lokmanya Tilak. The award is given to people who have worked for the progress and development of the nation and whose contribution can only be looked upon as remarkable and extraordinary and is presented every year on the 1st of August which is also Lokmanya Tilak's death anniversary. After the award is conferred, PM Modi Modi will become the 41st recipient of the award.

Moving on, later at around 12.45 pm, he will flag off metro trains and inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for various development projects, PMO statement said. Speaking of the metro trains, Modi will inaugurate services on completed sections of the two corridors of Pune Metro Phase I. These sections are from Phugewadi station to Civil Court station and Garware College station to Ruby Hall Clinic station for which the foundation stone was laid by the Prime minister in 2016.