Pakistan will shiver when cannons under defence corridor will be built in Bundelkhand: Yogi Adityanath

BANDA: Attacking India’s hostile neighbour, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath said in Banda on Friday that cannon factories will be set up under the Rs 20,000-crore defence corridor project in Bundelkhand and “when these cannons will thunder, Pakistan will shiver". He said the defence corridor will create lots of job opportunities for the region.
After opening the three-day Kalinjar Mahotsav in Banda district, the CM inaugurated 133 projects and laid the foundation stone of 169 projects — a total of 302 projects worth Rs 665.26 crore inaugurated and the foundation stone laid.
“This was the Prime Minister's intention that Bundelkhand should witness development. When I came on my first yatra to Bundelkhand after our government was formed, only we had taken a pledge for the region’s growth. Today, the Bundelkhand Expressway is in front of you. We are going to build an airport right here in Chitrakoot. We are doing the work of connecting Ken and Betwa rivers. In the times to come, Bundelkhand will become a heaven on Earth. Our Bundelkhand will not be left behind now.”
He said that of the Rs 33 lakh crore investment proposals received by the state at the Global Investors Summit, proposals worth Rs 4.5 lakh crore have come for Bundelkhand. He said these projects will lead to mushrooming of new industries in Bundelkhand, till now considered the most backward region of the state, and will thus generate lots of employment.
He also inaugurated two tall statues of Maharana Pratap of Mewar and Maharaja Khet Singh Khangar of Khangar dynasty at separate chowks in Banda city on Friday. “Banda looks like Delhi when one sees wide and clean roads,” said Yogi while praising the improved infrastructure of the Bundelkhand city. “Roads in Bundelkhand have now been widened and that is allowing people to travel smoothly and faster. Travel time for long distances has now reduced due to better roads.”
On tourism promotion, Yogi said, “By reviving historical forts, promoting tourism, we will increase the employment potential of the youth here...Those who made Bundelkhand hollow by looting its resources and by doing politics of casteism, we have to keep away from these families forever.”
The possibilities of tourism development will further be explored by linking all forts. He said to preserve forts, they will be developed as tourist zones, and hotels and restaurants will be established. He said the Kalinjar festival will be organised in a grand manner as a state festival.
“In Banda district, more than 88,000 PM houses have been built in rural areas. 634 families from the tribal community have received houses under the CM scheme. Earlier SP and BSP governments had deprived the poor of facilities. In Banda, we have given pensions to 13,595 elderly people in the last five years, 2,536 widows were given pensions as they were not getting it earlier. All this is a glimpse (of our work) through which we want to tell people that the benefits of the government's schemes are being given without discrimination,” Yogi said.
He said Sajar stone and Kathia wheat will be further promoted under ‘one district one product district’, so that the farmers and traders of this region will get better value for it.
While giving a cheque of Rs 9 crore to self-help groups, he said under the CM's self-employment scheme, a cheque of Rs 25 lakh was given to a beneficiary. Yogi also said that two crore youths will be given tablets by the state government. Along with this, certificates were distributed to the beneficiaries of Ayushman Bharat Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Vikas Samman Nidhi Yojana and other schemes.
State jal shakti minister Swatantra Dev Singh and minister of state for jal shakti Ramkesh Nishad also gave information about various development works. MP Banda-Chitrakoot RK Singh Patel, MP Mahoba-Hamirpur Pushpendra Singh Chandel, district panchayat president Sunil Patel, MLA Naraini Ommani Verma, MLA Sadar Prakash Dwivedi, MLC Jitendra Singh Sengar and Babulal Tiwari also addressed the large gathering.