55 High-Definition Cameras, 1 Drone: Grand Coverage For PM's Kashi Event

A team of about 100 persons, from Doordarshan (DD), including 55 camerapersons, senior officials and other staff are camping in Varanasi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today inaugurate the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor project in a grand ceremony, and with 55 high-definition cameras, four jimmy jibs and one huge drone, the national coverage of his event in Varanasi is also set to be "equally monumental", officials sources said.

A team of about 100 persons, from Doordarshan (DD), including 55 camerapersons, senior officials and other staff are currently camping in the holy city to showcase ''Divya Kashi, Bhavya Kashi''.

"With 55 HD cameras, seven uplink satellite vans, four cellular mobile news gathering units, one RF (radio frequency) camera, four jimmy jibs, and one drone mid-air, it will be a monumental coverage of an event of this nature, and truly massive in scale," a highly-placed official source told PTI.

Prior to this, PM's Kedarnath temple visit has also been covered by DD in a big way, but the "Kashi coverage will be truly massive, and equally monumental as the event itself tomorrow", the source said.