LUCKNOW: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has appealed to NRIs from Uttar Pradesh to act as brand ambassadors and encourage people to invest in the state. Addressing a session — Atmanirbharta: Global Indians and Uttar Pradesh: A Partnership’ at the India Global Week 2020 — on Saturday, the CM said a strong law and order system was the first condition for investors to move to UP and his government had shown zero-tolerance to crime.
“The state’s perception has changed in past three years. People want security for themselves and for their investments. I assure you that both will be safe in UP,” he said.
The CM highlighted various sectors in which new investments were possible, including the defence corridor, tourism, electronic vehicle manufacturing, logistics and food processing.
“We used the lockdown to our advantage and began producing sanitizers and PPE kits. Now, we are in a position to export PPE kits. With Unlock 2 in place, we have managed to kick-start 80-90% of our industries. New policies have been brought in for MSMEs, logistic and private industrial parks,” the CM said, adding for 1,000 days, almost all labour laws had been suspended to ease setting up of industries.
The chief minister also spoke about the network of expressways in the state, airports, freight corridors, giving industry status to warehousing and launching ease-of-doing business to showcase UP’s investment potential. He added that UP was emerging as a tourism hotspot in South Asia and had the potential for religious, heritage, adventure and eco-tourism.
Yogi Adityanath said, by virtue of its population, UP was the largest market in India. He said, the state had the third largest GDP and contributed 8% to national growth with 17% Indians living in the state. “At least 56% of the population is of working age. During lockdown, almost 40 lakh migrant workers returned and we set up a Shramik Ayog and managed to place more than 11 lakh migrant workers in various industries,” he said.
The CM added that under Garib Kalyan Yojna launched by PM Narendra Modi recently, UP had provided employment to 1 crore people.
“The state’s perception has changed in past three years. People want security for themselves and for their investments. I assure you that both will be safe in UP,” he said.
The CM highlighted various sectors in which new investments were possible, including the defence corridor, tourism, electronic vehicle manufacturing, logistics and food processing.
“We used the lockdown to our advantage and began producing sanitizers and PPE kits. Now, we are in a position to export PPE kits. With Unlock 2 in place, we have managed to kick-start 80-90% of our industries. New policies have been brought in for MSMEs, logistic and private industrial parks,” the CM said, adding for 1,000 days, almost all labour laws had been suspended to ease setting up of industries.
The chief minister also spoke about the network of expressways in the state, airports, freight corridors, giving industry status to warehousing and launching ease-of-doing business to showcase UP’s investment potential. He added that UP was emerging as a tourism hotspot in South Asia and had the potential for religious, heritage, adventure and eco-tourism.
Yogi Adityanath said, by virtue of its population, UP was the largest market in India. He said, the state had the third largest GDP and contributed 8% to national growth with 17% Indians living in the state. “At least 56% of the population is of working age. During lockdown, almost 40 lakh migrant workers returned and we set up a Shramik Ayog and managed to place more than 11 lakh migrant workers in various industries,” he said.
The CM added that under Garib Kalyan Yojna launched by PM Narendra Modi recently, UP had provided employment to 1 crore people.
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