To put Uttar Pradesh firmly on India's defence manufacturing map, the Yogi Adityanath government is speeding up defence and military-ware projects totalling Rs 23,000 crore.
These 110 projects pertain to different categories of defence hardware such as drones, arms, ammunition, missiles, propellant systems, parachutes, defence textiles etc.
The mega Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor (UPDIC) spans six nodes viz. Lucknow, Kanpur, Jhansi, Aligarh, Agra and Chitrakoot.
The UPDIC is a critical part of the 'Make in India' and 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' (self-reliant India) themes to reduce the country's dependency on costly foreign defence imports.
So far, nodal agency UP Expressways Industrial Development Authority #UPEIDA has signed 197 memorandum of understanding (MoUs) with leading defence and aerospace companies for setting up production units in the UPDIC nodes.
The UP Defense Corridor will not only transform UP’s industrial landscape but also position India as a global defence manufacturing hub.
Major investors in the UPDIC include Adani Defence and Aerospace, BrahMos Aerospace, Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL), Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Tata Technologies, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) etc.
Lucknow-based BrahMos Aerospace is an Indo-Russia joint venture between India's DRDO and Russia's NPOM to develop next generation supersonic missiles.
He said the UPDIC has been strategically aligned with major initiatives such as 'One District, One Product' (ODOP) and 'Make in UP'.
Interestingly, the Corridor is among the key projects of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who regularly monitors its progress to realise its full potential for industrial growth and job creation.
With the overarching objective of boosting India’s defence and aerospace self-reliance, about 62 UPDIC projects have so far been allotted 977 hectares of land.
These projects involve investments of almost Rs 12,000 crore. Together with additional 110 projects worth Rs 23,000 in the pipeline, the UPDIC has amassed investment proposals to the tune of Rs 35,000 crore with a job creation potential of over 52,000.
Meanwhile, UPEIDA has approved 2,100 hectares of land across the six nodes, while 1,600 hectares are currently available for allotment to industry.
Aligarh tops with the allotment of land to maximum 24 companies while Kanpur ranks first in total land allotment of 210 hectares allocated to five companies.
In Jhansi, 17 companies have been allotted 571 hectares; in Lucknow 16 companies have received 131 hectares of land. The allotment process will soon begin in Chitrakoot.
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