Ahmedabad: PM Narendra Modi arrived here tonight on his second back to back Gujarat visit within a week, during which tomorrow on his birthday he will dedicate the Sardar Sarovar Dam on river Narmada to the people.

PM Modi arrived at the SVBPI airport by the special aircraft of the Indian Air Force. Governor O P Kohli, CM Vijay Rupani, Minister of State for home Pradipsinh Jadeja and other ministers, Assembly speaker Ramanlal Vora, Guajrat BJP in-charge Bhupendra Yadav, state BJP president Jeetu Vaghani, Chief Secretary J N Singh, DGP Geeta Johri, Collector Avantika Singh, Mayor Gautam Shah and others welcomed him.

PM Modi soon departed for Rajbhavan for night stay.

Tomorrow he would also physically review the progress of the statue of unity project about construction of 182 meter high statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on Sadhu bet, an island in central Gujarat and also inaugurate a plant of Amreli District Cooperative Milk Producers Association or Amar Dairy one of the over a dozen such dairies associated with the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, the umbrella organization which owns brand Amul.

Modi had concluded his successful two day Gujarat visit on September 14 during which he had participated in various events including ground breaking of Mumbai Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (Bullet Train) Project and 12 th India Japan Annual Summit apart from a grand 8 km long road show with visiting Japanese PM Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie Abe.

Tomorrow he would dedicate the Sardar Sarovar dam to people in Kevadiya in Narmada district of central Gujarat during a mega event in which CMs of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, BJP president Amit Shah and other distinguished personalities will remain present. Noted Singer Anuradha Podhwal would perform Narmada Stuti on the occasion. He would review the statue of unity project there and then move to Dabhoi college ground in neighbouring Vadodara district to address a meeting likely to be attended over one lakh people.

A five tier security arrangement has been made for his events in Kevadiya and Dabhoi for which around 1600 and 2500 police and other security personnel respectively would be deployed.

In the morning on his birthday tomorrow after taking the blessings of mother Hiraba in Gandhinagar he would leave for Kevadiya by chopper. In Kevadiya he would do the puja of Narmada and dedicate Sardar Sarovar Dam to people. The 30 gates of the dam were closed a few weeks back increasing its height and water storage capacity along with electricity production through Hydel power projects associated with it and marking the completion of the dam construction work. He would also do the physical review of the progress of the statue of unity project.

PM Modi would them go to Dabhoi to address a meeting in the college ground there on the occasion and also to mark the end the Ma Narmada yatras.

Later that day he would go to Amreli to inaugurate the new building of APMC there and also a plant of Amar Dairy and launch some of its products including honey. He would return to Delhi tomorrow itself.

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