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Lucknow, July 29: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched various projects worth Rs. 60, 000 crore at the ground-breaking ceremony in UP’s capital city Lucknow. At least 1500 industry leaders, investors, bankers, foreign delegates and a group of union ministers are in attendance at the ground breaking event.
The union ministers who attended the ground-breaking ceremony included commerce and industry minister Suresh Prabhu, defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman and electronics and information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. Others in attendance at the UP Investors Summit event included Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani, Nandan Nilekani, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Subhash Chandra, N Chandrasekaran and CII chairman Rakesh Bharti Mittal.
The projects to be started in this phase pertain to Reliance Industries, Infosys, World Trade Center, BNSL etc. and is expected to create around 2.1 lakh job opportunity in the state. The ceremony was telecasted live at all the district headquarters.
The ceremony also marked the implementation of 81 out of the 1,045 Memorandums of Understandings (MoUs) signed at the Uttar Pradesh Investors’ Summit which was held in the month of February this year.
PM Modi who is on a two-day visit to Lucknow, attended the concluding session of ‘Transforming Urban Landscape’ convention yesterday. PM Modi made a beeline of announcements highlighting that the government was trying to build a system in which people aren’t devoid of education, employment et al. He further added that his government would try to facilitate every Indian with an accommodation by the year 2022. “Our pledge to make lives of Indians simple and comfortable has become stronger after 3 years. We will give ‘pakka makaan’ to people who are poor and homeless,” he said.
In past three years, Rs 50,000 cr have been saved in electricity bills because of the LED bulbs were set up in households under Ujala scheme. If I had announced a concession of this amount, 'Wah Wah Modi' would have been the headlines for a week: PM Modi in Lucknow pic.twitter.com/0pvsxWm4u1
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) July 29, 2018
PM Modi in Lucknow Live News Updates: Seeing developments in UP make me happy: PM Modi
Today the nation is becoming a hub of mobile manufacturing for the world. Uttar Pradesh is leading this manufacturing revolution. More than 50 mobile manufacturing company are working in UP & the largest mobile manufacturing unit in the world has also been established here: PM pic.twitter.com/SjntNgIA1A
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) July 29, 2018
PM Modi in Lucknow Live News Updates: PM Modi also took a dig at previous governments saying they did not have the will and their intentions weren’t clear, hence no development was seen earlier.
PM Modi in Lucknow Live News Updates: Every household in India is expected to get electricity until March 2019, says Modi.
These projects will prove to be a big step in giving a new direction to Digital India and Make in India. Be it setting up of fiber or establishment of IT center for internet service in Uttar Pradesh, digital infrastructure will give a new direction, new pace to the state: PM Modi pic.twitter.com/a9rOoHjBfe
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) July 29, 2018
PM Modi in Lucknow Live News Updates: UP’S MSME sector will benefit in the time to come through these projects, said PM Modi.
PM Modi in Lucknow Live News Updates: These 81 investment projects will play a crucial role in the ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’ schemes launched by government.
People are calling this event a ground-breaking ceremony. But I call this a record-breaking ceremony. The manner in which development works have been carried out in such a short span of time & old methods have been changed, was never seen before in Uttar Pradesh: PM in Lucknow pic.twitter.com/mxyViLlZdT
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) July 29, 2018
PM Modi in Lucknow Live News Updates: This is record-breaking event, says PM Modi.
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