Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Lucknow on Friday to take part in the third ground-breaking ceremony of projects committed during the 2018 UP Investors Summit and lay foundation stones of 1,406 projects worth Rs 80,000 crore.
The ceremony will be attended by leading industrialists Gautam Adani, chairman of Adani Group; Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of the Aditya Birla Group; Niranjan Hiranandani of the Hiranandani group, Matthieu Eyries of Air Liquide; Sanjeev Puri of ITC Ltd, Sajjan Jindal of Jindal group, and Yusuf Ali of Lulu Group among others, the government said.
The Prime Minister’s Office said the projects for which the foundation stones will be laid, include diverse sectors like agriculture and allied industry, IT and electronics, MSME, manufacturing, renewable energy, pharma, tourism, defence & aerospace, and handloom & textiles, among others.Among the projects, whose foundation stones will be laid on Friday, 805 belong to the MSME ( micro, small, and medium enterprise) sector. “MSME sector plays a major role in UP’s economy. We need to strengthen it further,” PM Modi had said at the investors’ summit in 2018.
