Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday hailed Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for creating an investment-friendly atmosphere in Uttar Pradesh.
She was in the state capital to attend a programme for Ganga Expressway securitisation loan sanction.
Speaking at the event, Sitharaman said, "There was a bit of hesitation when the defence industrial corridor was announced for Uttar Pradesh. Industrial climate prevails in many states like Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Haryana and others while agriculture and medium and small scale industries (MSME) were more important to Uttar Pradesh. But today, the chief minister has shown it by doing it.”
"I am very proud of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath who understands the larger national interest, translates that into state's policies and takes it at the execution level to the last mile," she added.
Sitharaman said that UP would become the backbone of economic development in the coming times. She said that in the last four to five years a series of world class infrastructure projects like Purvanchal Expressway, Bundelkhand Expressway, Gorakhpur and Ballia Link Expressway and now Ganga Expressway had been created, and it had introduced the country to a new UP.