Invest India: Uttar Pradesh plans to become trillion-dollar economy

30 Jul 2021 CW Team

On Tuesday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath told the media that the state government is working to make Uttar Pradesh a trillion-dollar economy and would work with Invest India to push the economy of the state.

He also said that the state government is planning to ask officers to coordinate with the plan of Invest India. He said this after a virtual presentation on the UP trillion-dollar economy by Invest India.

The UP state government is working to make UP a trillion-dollar economy. UP has emerged as an economy to attract investments, and the state government has completed exemplary work in the past 4.5 years, he said.

The state would attract investors and bring capital investment to the state. The government should work for short and long term schemes to attract investments, he said.

Siddhart Nath Singh, Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME), said that UP is the second to do business ranking and second-biggest economy in terms of Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP). CEO of Invest India, Deepak Bagla, said that the company would cooperate in making UP a trillion-dollar economy. He also said that Invest India is a non-profit organisation that works to boost investment. It was previously working on Rs 37,000 crore projects in 37 sectors across the state and led the creation of jobs on a large basis.

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