Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has urged the Indians settled in the USA to invest in Uttar Pradesh and contribute to the state’s target of becoming a 1-trillion dollar economy and India becoming a 5-trillion dollar economy.
The chief minister was addressing a ‘UP Investment and Tourism’ event organised by UP Association of North America through video-conferencing late Sunday night.
Yogi Adityanath said with the cooperation of the entrepreneurs and investors, UP and India had achieved new heights in social, cultural and economic spheres.
He said the NRIs, through their grit and hard work, had earned a new identity for themselves in the global arena and applauded their love and devotion for the motherland.
The NRIs evinced interest in the pharmacy sector, entrepreneur development, software park, solar park, energy, education, entertainment, health and medical facilities.
The chief minister pointed out that Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 24 crore, was a huge market endowed with rich natural resources and the state government was working with sincere commitment for the development of the infrastructure in the state.
Yogi Adityanath said tourism too had a huge potential. He said besides tourism, there was huge potential in developing eco and heritage tourism.
The chief minister said the temple city of Ayodhya would be developed as one of the most developed cities of the world. He recalled the successful organisation of the Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj in 2019, saying the mega event established the image of UP at the global level in terms of security, sanitation and public order.
Yogi Adityanath pointed out that law and order in UP was a model for other states to follow.
Listing the policies for different sectors formulated by the UP government, the chief minister said the state government in the last three years had focused special attention on the development of infrastructure in the state. He said UP ranked second at all-India level in the Ease of Doing Business Index.
The chief minister said despite the resource constraints and limited health infrastructure, UP had done remarkable work in tackling the novel coronavirus pandemic and it was applauded by the World Health Organisation.
About the achievements in infrastructure development, the chief minister said presently four expressways were under construction in the state and Purvanchal Expressway would be thrown open for public in March next year. He said work was underway for the construction of a 600-km-long expressway for linking Meerut with Prayagraj.
Yogi Adityanath said industrial clusters were being developed in each of the 75 districts of the state while work on construction of three airports — at Ayodhya, Jewar and Kushinagar — was underway and metro rail service was in operation in four big cities — Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Noida and Greater Noida.
Besides, he said, the Delhi-Meerut rapid rail and 12-lane Delhi-Meerut expressway were under construction.
The chief minister said the government had also ensured round-the-clock power supply in rural and urban areas of the state.
On the health facilities, he said the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Gorakhpur would commence operation in March next year while work was on for the construction of a sports university in Meerut and a law university in Prayagraj district.
Yogi Adityanath also informed the NRIs that work for setting up a film city and defence industrial corridor was also in progress.
US-based investors Rakesh Agarwal, Akash Agarwal, Rajesh Kshetria, Dr Devendra Shukl, Dr Anil Chopra and Rajiv Agarwal participated in the video conference.
The NRIs appreciated the robust law and order in the state. They said during the last three years a congenial atmosphere for investment had been created in the state and the NRIs were keen to make investment in UP and were keen to cooperate with the UP government in social activities in the state.