PM Narendra Modi Japan visit: Kashi to go Kyoto way

Kyoto: Nursing the ambition of creating 100 smart cities in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his Japan visit on Saturday on a significant note with a pact being signed under which his constituency Varanasi will be developed as a “Smart City” in partnership with Kyoto.

 

The Partner City Affiliation MoU marks the launch of smart heritage city programme, between the two countries as a detailed road-map of cooperation will be prepared to form the base for further under standing.

 

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Mr Modi and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, who made a special gesture of flying to Kyoto to meet his Indian counterpart, oversaw the ceremony where the pact was signed by Indian Ambassador to Japan Deepa Wadhwa and Daisaku Kadokawa, Mayor of Kyoto, the Japanese “Smart City” which is a confluence of heritage and modernity. The pact was signed soon after Mr Modi arrived in the first leg of his five-day tour amid his “great expectations”.