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KASHI CORRIDOR RESTORATION OF THE GLORY OF

KASHI VISHWANATH DHAM

There was a time when it was said
of the infrastructure in Varanasi that
nothing could happen to this city. n It has been built on an area of more than 5 lakh 27
The infrastructure was like a beehive thousand square feet while retaining the original
with heavy encroachment, which no form of the ancient temple. Previously, the temple
one wanted to disturb. On it, it was area was only a few thousand square feet. Now,
difficult to even walk around the Kashi between 50 and 75 thousand devotees can visit
Vishwanath Temple. But Prime Minister the temple and its grounds. That is, first a darshan
Modi took the initiative to change of Mother Ganga, then a bath, and then on to
this saying, and in March 2019, the Vishwanath Dham.
foundation of the Kashi Vishwanath
Corridor was laid.

Kashi has always been
alive and in motion. Kashi
has now shown the entire
country a picture that
includes both heritage
and development. With
such a legacy, the work
of making it grand, divine,
and new is never-ending.
Kashi is a city in constant
development, from the
railway station to the
airport, with roads, streets,
ponds, ghats, and gates.
Narendra Modi
Prime Minister

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