PM Modi to lay foundation stones for Rs 80,000 crore projects in UP today

The Prime Minister’s Office said the projects for which the foundation stones will be laid, include diverse sectors like agriculture and allied industry,  IT and electronics, MSME, manufacturing, renewable energy, pharma, tourism, defence & aerospace, and handloom & textiles, among others.

Among the projects, whose foundation stones will be laid on Friday, 805 belong to the MSME ( micro, small, and medium enterprise) sector. “MSME sector plays a major role in UP’s economy. We need to strengthen it further,” PM Modi had said at the investors’ summit in 2018.

In Friday’s ceremony, a total of Rs 4,459 crore will be pumped into new MSMEs being set up in the state.

However, in terms of investment, the big investment projects will be the seven data centres for which the state will see an investment of Rs 19,928 crore.

An official statement from the UP government said the investment in the Friday’s ceremony will fund at least 275 projects in agriculture and allied industries, and 65 in pharmaceuticals and medical supplies.

Among others, there will be six education sector projects worth Rs 1,183 crore, seven related to dairy worth Rs 489 crore, and six in animal husbandry worth Rs 224 crore, the release said. Two of these units will be started in Agra, three in Aligarh, two in Amethi, one in Ayodhya, seven in Barabanki, two in Bareilly, one in Chandauli, one in Etawah, two in Fatehpur, one in Firozabad, and 40 in Gautam Budh Nagar and Ghaziabad, among other places in the state.

Others include 275 projects of agriculture and allied sector worth Rs 11,297 crore, 26 projects of IT and electronics sector worth Rs 7,876 crore, 13 infrastructure projects worth Rs 6,632 crore, 27 manufacturing projects worth Rs 6,227 crore, 46 handloom and textile projects worth Rs 5,642 crore, 23 renewable energy projects worth Rs 4,782 crore, 19 housing and commercial projects worth Rs 4,344 crore, and eight healthcare projects worth Rs 2,205 crore.

Foundation stones will also be laid for about 23 defence projects worth Rs 1,774 crore, 26 warehousing and logistics projects worth Rs 1,295 crore, education sector projects worth Rs 1,183 crore, and 65 pharma and medical supplies projects worth Rs 1088 crore among others.

A government release said that 23 tourism and hospitality projects worth Rs 680 crore and a Rs 100-crore project related to the film industry will see their foundation stones being laid.

This will be the third ground-breaking ceremony for the projects that were committed in the 2018 investors summit.

The first ground-breaking ceremony took place on July 29, 2018, when foundation stones of 81 projects worth Rs 61,500 crore were laid.

A year later – on July 28, 2019 – the second ground-breaking ceremony was held where foundation stones of 290 projects worth Rs 67,000 crore were laid.