Jammu, July 17: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here on Friday on a day-long visit to the current winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir.

The special plane carrying the prime minister landed at the technical space of Jammu airport around eleven a.m.

Governor N.N.Vohra, Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed and senior cabinet ministers received Modi at the airport.

The prime minister can attend the birth centenary functions of a senior Congress leader, the late Girdhari Lal Dogra, who was conjointly the state minister of finance.

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley, who is married to Dogra’s daughter, arrived here on Thursday for the centenary functions.

Modi is attending the most operate within the Zorawar Singh area of Jammu University around that a thick blanket of security has been thrown.

Senior Congress leader and former chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Congress veteran Karan Singh also are attending the operate, which will begin a santoor recital by Shivkumar Sharma, an internationally celebrated master who hails from Jammu.

All eyes are on this visit because the prime minister is predicted announce a Rs.70,000 crore development package for Jammu and Kashmir.

Modi is regular to fly back to New Delhi within the afternoon.