OPINION | How Yogi plans to make UP a $1 trillion economy
India TV NewsThe sheer scale of investment proposals received by the Uttar Pradesh government at the ongoing UP Global Investors Summit in Lucknow bodes well for the people of the state. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced at the summit that his government has already signed 18,643 memorandums of understanding worth Rs 32.92 lakh crore. He mentioned how Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in one of his speeches, "UP plus Yogi, bahut hain ab upyogi". Addressing the investors' summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, Uttar Pradesh used to be one of the 'Bimaru', and it was lagging behind others because of rampant crimes, but in the past few years, law and order situation has improved and the state has emerged as an engine of growth. UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath vowed to scale up the state's economy to one trillion dollars in the coming years.