Indian PM Modi inaugurates Terminal 2 of Bengaluru International Airport

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated Terminal 2 of the KempeGowda International airport in Bengaluru. The terminal has been built at a cost of Rs13,000 crore to cater to additional 2.5 crore passengers annually.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, Union Minister for Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi and others were present on the occasion. The Prime Minister took a tour of the swanky Terminal 2, billed as a garden terminal.

He also flagged off the Vande Bharat express train and Bharat Gourav Kashi Darshan train, according to Indo-Asian News Service Vande Bharat express train travels at a speed of 160km per hour and can pick up the speed of 100km per hour within 52 seconds.

After flagging off trains at the Sangolli Rayanna Railway Station in Majestic, the Prime Minister alighted from his vehicle and walked towards the huge crowd and waved at them.

Statue of Prosperity Modi also unveiled the 'Statue of Prosperity', the 108-foot tall bronze statue of Bengaluru founder Nadaprabhu Kempegowda, on the premises of the Bengaluru International Airport. It has been built to commemorate the contribution of Kempegowda towards development of the city.

After unveiling the statue, the Prime Minister poured sacred water on the feet of the statue of Kempegowda. No other airport in the world has such a tall statue of its founder and this goes as a record in the World Book of Records, Karnataka Higher Education Minister Ashwathnarayan said. The project comprising the Kempegowda statue and a 23-acre theme park has been built at a cost of around Rs84 crore.