Jammu, Apr 25 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi showed keen interest in a photo exhibition depicting rural heritage organised by the Jammu chapter of INTACH during his visit to Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Monday.

The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) held the exhibition at Palli panchayat, the venue of the prime minister's public rally to commemorate the National Panchayat Day in Samba district on Sunday, they said.

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Prime Minister Modi's speech was relayed to all gram panchayats across the country and during the event, he inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of several projects for the union territory.

The officials said the photo exhibition was based on heritage temple corridors of Mandal/Purmandal, Uttar-behni and Birpur as well as the traditional route to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine.

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Convener of INTACH, Jammu Chapter, S M Sahni, along with Shastri Rajinder Kumar of the Purmandal complex briefed the prime minister about the rural heritage corridor photographs, the officials said.

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