Prabhat Ranjan Deen
Lucknow, May 14. The top heads of the Indian Industry will be present in Lucknow for the Ground Breaking ceremony on June 3. Kumar Mangalam Birla, Gautam Adani, Sanjiv Goenka, Sajjan Jindal, and Sudhir Mehta have confirmed their presence at the proposed event.
Gearing up to make Uttar Pradesh a hub of industrialisation, the state government is expecting investment proposals of more than 75,000 crores coming on the ground. This would be the third groundbreaking ceremony under the Yogi Adityanath government in the last five years.
The biggest corporates who are going to attend the event include Kumar Mangalam Birla, the Chairman of the Indian multinational Aditya Birla Group, which operates in 36 countries across six continents. Gautam Adani, who will also be present, is the chairman and founder of the Adani Group along with Sanjiv Goenka, founder, and chairman of RPSG Group, Sajjan Jindal, the chairman and managing director of JSW Group of companies, and Sudhir Uttamlal Mehta who operates Torrent Group comprising Torrent Pharma, Torrent Power, and Torrent Gas. Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chairman of the Board of Tata Sons and chairperson of the Vedanta group will also be participating in the ceremony.
The third groundbreaking ceremony, to be held at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan, will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Among the prominent projects that would take off in the ceremony are Rs 4,900-crore and Rs 9,100-crore data centres of Adani and Hiranandani groups respectively along with Rs 2,100-crore software development centres of Microsoft. Besides, the work on a cement manufacturing plant of Rs 600 crore by Dalmia Group in Mirzapur and the detergent plant of Hindustan Unilever Limited would also begin.
According to the officials of the Industrial Development department of UP, of the projects, beginning in the ceremony Rs 21,000 crore investment is in the information technology (IT) and electronic sector only. Besides, many other projects of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME), textile, tourism, energy, food processing and pharma would also begin.
To strengthen the export facilitation mechanism, on the lines of Udyam Saarthi App, the UP government will be soon developing the ‘Niryaat Sarathi App’ which will provide every information related to export of goods at one click. It is worth mentioning here that Uttar Pradesh exports have almost doubled in the last five years from Rs 88,967 crore in 2017-18 to more than Rs. 1.50 lakh crore in 2021-22. The One District One Product (ODOP) schemes constitute about 72 percent of the total exports from UP.
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