UP Elections Won, Yogi Govt Spurs Defence Corridor Work on War-footing
News 18With the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections won comfortably, the Yogi Adityanath government is embarking on completion of its ambitious Defence Corridor Project for indigenous manufacturing of military goods and has started the process of development of four nodes of the plan after inaugurating one in Aligarh last year. Bids were invited by the UP government on March 11 for services to design the development of the nodes in Jhansi, Chitrakoot, Lucknow and Kanpur where the defence industries will come up. So far, the state has signed 74 MoUs worth investment of Rs 4,000 crore in the Defence Corridor and allotted 74 hectares of land to 22 companies in the Aligarh node with a confirmed investment of nearly Rs 1,250 crore. On Tuesday, the Uttar Pradesh government also signed an extension of an MoU with IIT Kanpur and IIT BHU for the next three years to help it as knowledge partners for increasing investment in the Defence Corridor project.
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