PM to visit Narmada dam on birthday

September 16, 2019 20:16

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who turns 69 on Tuesday, will visit the site of the Gujarat's Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river whose water level has reached its highest mark for the first time to celebrate the feat and kick off "Namami Narmade" festival.

For the first time since the height of the dam was raised in 2017, the water level reached its highest peak at 138.68 metres on Sunday evening.

The prime minister will land at Ahmedabad airport on Monday night. He will visit the dam site at Kevadiya in Narmada district on his 69th birthday on Tuesday morning to attend the "Namami Narmade Mahotsava" to celebrate the water level milestone, according to a state government release issued on Monday.

Before leaving for Kevadiya on early Tuesday morning from Gandhinagar, the PM would visit his nonagenarian mother, Hiraba, in Raisan village near the state capital to seek her blessings, said an official.

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