NEW DELHI, June 3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said Uttar Pradesh would be a driving force for India in the next 10 years, giving momentum to India’s growth story. He was speaking at the Uttar Pradesh Investors Summit in Lucknow.
Modi also laid the foundation stone for 1,406 projects worth Rs 80,000 crore in diverse fields, including agriculture, IT and Electronics, MSME, manufacturing, renewable energy, pharma, tourism, defence and aerospace, handloom and textile. UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh were also present at the event. Gautam Adani, Kumar Mangalam Birla and other leading industrialists are attending the mega summit organised by the Uttar Pradesh government. The first Uttar Pradesh Investors Summit was held on July 29, 2018 and the second one took place on July 28 the next year.
“Today, agreements of investment of more than Rs 80,000 crore have been done here. This record investment will create thousands of employment opportunities. I congratulate the youth of UP for it as they will be most benefitted from it,” he said. “We recently completed eight years of governance at the Centre. In these years, we progressed on the mantra of ‘reform, perform, transform’, focused on policy stability, coordination and ease of doing business,” Modi added.
(Manas Dasgupta)