LUCKNOW: Even before he enters parliament as MP of Varanasi and India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has already started development plans for his parliamentary constituency as well as the rest of the country. Sources in the government told TOI, Team Modi has reached out to the bureaucracy and sounded the bugle call on development initiatives for the holy city.Apart from the plans for cleaning up Ganga and the rest of the city, schemes are also afoot for easing the traffic congestion in the city. Top sources in the government said Modi had already issued directions to his team, directing them to draw up a list of tasks that need to be taken up for the city on priority basis.Among the major plans that are already beginning to take shape, Modi's BJP team in Varanasi has proposed nearly 60 flyovers inside the city and connecting the two banks of the Ganges. In addition, the communication cell of the party has also started off an online campaign asking people to set the agenda for the Modi government for implementation in the next 100 days and one year. Professor of political science at BHU, KK Mishra, said, "Team Modi plans, primarily, to focus on restoring the Ganga to the glory it had known in the 1970s. There are also plans afoot to crack down on commercial activities on the ghats."In Varanasi, though, the BJP men have been out and about seeking advice from the city's intellectuals on things that the city needs. From the Chamber of Commerce to professors at the Benaras Hindu University , everyone has been asked to chip in with advice on ways to improve the city and create a framework for the development model it needs. A senior BJP leader said, "We have been advised to reach out to people seeking advice on the changes they think Varanasi and the rest of East UP needs. While Varanasi will be developed as a model city, the ripple effects will also be felt in the neighbouring districts."Leaders in the party confirmed they will be taking a leaf out of the much-hyped Gujarat model of development in much of what they plan for Varanasi. "That Kashi is set to see considerable change is certain. The model of development that Gujarat saw implemented - transparently and efficiently - is what has been envisaged for Varanasi and other Eastern pockets as well," a party functionary said.There's a minor blip, though, in all the plans the BJP appears to have in store for Varanasi. Local say after the decimation of the Samajwadi Party at the hands of the BJP, it is unlikely they will assist the party's development initiatives. It helps, of course, that the almost all the political leadership within Varanasi belong to the saffron camp. When it comes to the Centre-state division of work though, it could be an uphill task that is difficult for the BJP to pull off.