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significant strides in ease of doing highways, expressways, and rail traf-
business. fic, in addition to making the state
Lauded the state’s Nivesh Mitra crime-free. Today UP has become
initiative, the chairman of the Aditya a hub of investment because of its
Birla Group said investors were tak- transparent policies, reforms, and
ing note of the changing face of Uttar strict law and order. Uttar Pradesh
Pradesh, as over the last three years has become the center of hope for a
ending in September 2022, the state new India.”
had attracted FDI worth USD 1.1 He added: “The golden era of
billion. This is the highest in the last UP has begun. Both industry and
two decades. cooperation are needed for the
“Aditya Birla Group will invest development of the state. UP is
Rs 25,000 crore in UP in the fields of becoming an ‘enterprise state’ by
cement, metals, chemicals, financial imbibing the mantra of PM Modi,
services, and renewable energy,” Bir- ‘Reform, Perform and Transform.’
la said. He added that India was on There is greater harmony between
course to becoming the third-largest rural and urban India in UP. In or-
economy in the world by 2030. der for India to become a $5 tril-
“Under the leadership of PM lion economy, UP must become a
Modi, India’s economy is growing $1 trillion economy state. The state
rapidly. A statement has gone viral Reliance Industries Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani at the Uttar Pradesh is progressing toward this goal un-
on social media in which he says ‘UP Global Investors Summit 2023 (ANI) der the leadership of CM Yogi”.
and Yogi are very important’ and Yo- “Ambani said that Reliance Jio
gi-ji has proved it,” said Birla. would complete its rollout of 5G in
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister the online system for signing Mem- from Uttar Pradesh on the occasion. UP covering every town and village
Yogi Adityanath on Friday said that orandum of Understanding (MoUs) Hailing Prime Minister Naren- of the state by December 2023 and
the state has attracted investments and monitoring their implementa- dra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief that the company planned to invest
proposals worth Rs 32.92 lakh crores tion for the convenience of investors, Minister Yogi Adityanath for driving an additional Rs 75,000 crores in the
through the roadshows for the Glob- as well as Nivesh Sarathi, the online change in the country and the state re- next four years across Jio, retail and
al Investors Summit 2023 and is incentive and customer relationship spectively, the leading industrialists of renewable energy businesses provid-
ready to play the role of the growth management portal (Nivesh Sarathi), the country and abroad, said on Friday ing an additional 1 lakh jobs to the
engine of the country in line with the are proving to be immensely useful in that the UP Global Investors Summit youths of the state,” statement in-
Prime Minister’s vision and by imbib- facilitating investments. (GIS), 2023, was going to play a big formed.
ing his mantra of ‘Reform, Perform According to him, 406 services role in fulfilling the CM’s goal of mak- He further remarked that Reli-
Transform’. of 33 departments are available ing the state USD 1 trillion economy, ance Industries is working in the field
Speaking at the inaugural cer- on the online single window portal an official statement informed. of bioenergy and that the venture
emony of the summit, the UP CM ‘Nivesh Mitra’. Udyami Mitra is be- As per an official statement, the would benefit farmers as well as help
described it as the “Mahakumbh’ of ing deployed to assist the investors. industrialists exuded confidence in with solid waste management and
investment and said that the invest- Yogi Adityanath also said that the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s improve the environment. “In a nut-
ments, which will take place through $1 trillion target is to be achieved in co- leadership and described UP as the shell, Reliance will continue to work
18645 MoUs signed between the operation with everyone’s cooperation. most reliable state for investors. Re- for UP, jee jaan se,” he said.
government and the companies in CM Yogi also informed the gath- liance Industries, CMD, Mukesh Daniel Bircher, CEO of Zurich
diverse sectors such as renewable en- ering about the preparations that went Ambani, said: “Uttar Pradesh is on Airport of Asia, said, “CM Yogi Ad-
ergy, real estate, education, tourism, into organizing roadshows in 21 cities its way to becoming Uttam Pradesh. ityanath has emerged as the major
electronic vehicle manufacturing, of 16 countries and nine cities in dif- The UP government has created a indicator of development. Due to his
housing, food processing etc., will ferent states of the country for the GIS good environment for investment cooperation, the Noida International
create 92.50 lakh job opportunities by teams led by a group of ministers by facilitating infrastructure such as Airport is able to take shape. Noida
in the state. Inviting investors to take International Airport is the best ex-
part in the development of Uttar ample of a private-public partner-
Pradesh, CM Yogi said that the State ship. This airport will provide new
Government, under the guidance of opportunities for the state’s develop-
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has ment and will also be crucial in the
made the environment of the state development of western UP”.
favorable for industrial development Tata Sons Chairman N Chan-
by ensuring better law and order and drasekaran, said: “There is immense
bringing 25 sectoral policies provid- potential for development in UP. The
ing ease of business for the investors. agriculture and manufacturing sec-
The Chief Minister made tors are expected to grow in tandem
his remarks in the presence of in UP. The sectors can significantly
the Prime Minister, the Defense contribute to the government’s goal
Minister Rajnath Singh, the Gov- of making UP a trillion-dollar econo-
ernor, several Union Ministers, my, creating jobs and a better quality
world-class policy makers, the of life. Tata Group will be a big con-
top leadership of the corporate tributor to the development of UP.”
world, business delegations, aca- There was a time UP was seen
demia, think tanks and intellectuals. The gathering at the inauguration of Uttar Pradesh Global Investors Summit 2023, as a state with a lot of backwardness.
Yogi Adityanath further pointed in Lucknow on Friday (ANI) Now, it is the central part of BJP’s
out that the Nivesh Sarathi portal, project to boost the Indian economy.

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