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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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