Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said there were tremendous investment opportunities in the defense corridor during an interaction with businessmen linked to the defense sector in Mumbai on Wednesday. He stressed that UP had IIT-Kanpur and IIT-BHU as knowledge partners for the development of the corridor.
Inviting investments in the sector, Yogi said that there were six nodes in the defense corridor in the state and that there was sufficient land available at all six nodes, including Jhansi, Chitrakoot, Aligarh, Agra, Kanpur and Lucknow.
He said that India will not only become self-sufficient in the defense sector, but also become an exporter of defense products with the efforts made by everyone.
He added that such an effort would help make Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat” dream come true.
Yogi said the state government appreciated the suggestions of those willing to invest in the defense industrial corridor.
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He also said that the prime minister had made the announcement about the creation of the defense corridor at the first Uttar Pradesh investor summit in 2018. Uttar Pradesh had the largest number of MSME (Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) units and the state government tied 10.50 lakh of such units to banks, it said.
He said that the state was creating a supporting highway infrastructure, which was a great achievement for the Uttar Pradesh government.
The President of the Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority, Awanish Kumar Awasthi, introduced the entrepreneurs to the prime minister.
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