Mangaluru LPG storage, the Devanagundi terminal and sixty Amrit Bharat stations in the Karnataka projects package

13 November 2026

The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone for and dedicated projects worth more than Rs 15,000 crore at Bengaluru, with connectivity and energy security as the stated focus. The Pink Line of the Bengaluru Metro was dedicated to the public. On the energy side the package includes a liquefied petroleum gas project at Mangaluru that adds 80,000 metric tonnes of storage, the Devanagundi Marketing Terminal, and a compressed biogas plant in Bengaluru that is to produce about 13 tonnes of biogas a day. On the railway side, more than sixty stations in Karnataka have been taken up as Amrit Bharat Stations. The address also recorded that more than 40,000 families in Karnataka have installed rooftop solar plants under the PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana. The Amrit Bharat Station Scheme is the Indian Railways programme for the long-term redevelopment of stations, taken up in phases across the country. Karnataka Governor Sudha Yadav, Chief Minister D K Shivakumar and State Minister Krishna Byre Gowda were among those present.