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foreign investment

with the success UP eyes foreign investors the Indian partners like Jet,
ighly enthused
Tatas and Mahindra. It may be
of its national for KUmbh mela 2019 pointed out here that the state
investors sum- government is finalising the
H mit organised in UP Defence and Aerospace
Lucknow earlier this year, the Manufacturing Policy 2018. In
government is all set to lure Beside boosting other sectors and industries, the IT sector, they met giants like
in global investors to the state. UP team is promoting Ardh Kumbh Mela as both Oracle, Intel, Sisko who have
Part of this ambitious plan is tourism and a spiritual opportunity, especially for shown interest in investing in
also to unfold and promote Noida, Uttar Pradesh’s IT city.
the government’s Hindu- the NRIs, writes Kulsum mustafa Appreciating the US’s fo-
tva flagship project, Ardh cus on ‘preventable’ strategies
Kumbh Mela, on foreign land, in the health sector, Singh said
presently slated to be held that as health minister he is all
at Allahabad from January up for this model and UP will
15 to March 4, 2019. The UP collaborate on JE prevention
team ensured that they used strategies study with Stanford
this project to promote Ardh University.
Kumbh Mela as both tourism The minister also talked
and spiritual opportunity, about low-cost technology
especially to the NRIs. developed by Indian diaspora
A high-level government in the US that will be deployed
delegation led by Siddharth in place of MRI procedure. Ini-
Nath Singh, State Health tially, this technology will be
Minister visited the US earlier used in the trauma centre.
this month. Singh informed The major collaborations
the press that some major are going to be in the Indian
companies in the health, aviation industry which is
Information Technology, ity of the country and also on project. The 20,000 crore increasing by 15 percent and
defence, are ready to invest the foreign investments. defence corridor covering as many new airports are
in Uttar Pradesh in a huge The minister said that sev- 3,000-hectare land will run coming up but there is still
manner. He said that the US eral international companies through Aligarh to Chitrakoot no Maintenance and Repair
is just the beginning; the state including Boeing, Lockheed via Kanpur, Lucknow and Overhaul (MRO) units for
government delegation will Martin have shown interest to Jhansi. repair of aircrafts in India
be planning trips to Europe, invest in the UP government’s He said that the govern- and aircrafts are being sent
Korea and other countries to ambitious defence corridor ment will also be speaking to to Sri Lanka for this. After this
invite investment in the state. agreement, MRO units will
Happy with the ‘positive be set up in Meerut in Uttar
feedback’ from the US, Singh Pradesh.
said that they were told by uP Defence Corridor project The e-marketing giant
the US representatives that Amazon which is promoting
“never before Uttar Pradesh khadi may soon tie up with
was represented in such a ♦ 20,000 crore project the state government to help
planned, structured way.” ♦ Will cover 3,000 hectare of land. promote the concept of ‘One
The minister said that he District, One Product (ODOP)’
is confident that Indo-US ♦ Single window system for entire Defence through this. This said the
strategic partnership, with Corridor in place. minister will bring nearly
special reference to Uttar five crore artisans on a single
Pradesh, is in an expansion ♦ Will run through Aligarh to Chitrakoot via global platform.
mode. Singh said that the rep- Kanpur, Lucknow and Jhansi. Another important area of
resentation was able to stress ♦ Identification and Notification of land collaboration will be on traffic
the great hidden potential of initiated. decongestion. Here the uni-
UP. He said Uttar Pradesh is versity has shown interest too
the backbone of the country ♦ Pre-feasibility report to be ready by and public health services.
and its progress will have an August end.
overall effect on the prosper- letters@tehelka.com

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