Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor project : Key Points

Key Points : Uttar Pradesh Industrial Corridor Project - Current Affairs

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid down the foundation stone of UP defence industrial corridor at Jhansi while concluding three-day ‘Rashtra Raksha Samarpan Parv’ event on 19th november 2021. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated this event on November 17, 2021
• Out of two defense industrial corridor, one is situated in Tamil Nadu and other one in Uttar Pradesh
• A plant for propulsion system for Anti-Tank Guided Missiles (Bharat Dynamics Ltd) will be built at Jhansi
• The major cities of UP that will connected under this corridor are Agra, Jhansi, Lucknow, Aligarh, Chitrakoot, and Kanpur.
• The project will cost around 400 crores at Jhansi