UP will get an opportunity to change its image The Uttar Pradesh government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has pulled out all stop to showcase investment opportunities in the state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the two-day 'UP Investors Summit', on Wednesday, which is being attended by at least 5000 people including industry captains from India and abroad, union ministers, chief ministers of states, policy makers and academics. President Ram Nath Kovind will attend the valedictory function on Thursday.Prime Minister Narendra Modi heaped praises on Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during his inaugural speech at Lucknow's Indira Gandhi Pratisthan, the main venue of the summit. "Potential + Policy + Planning+ Performance bringing progress, UP government is ready for super-hit performance", Mr Modi tweeted. The Prime Minister announced a mega defence industrial corridor in Bundelkhand region, which is one of the most backward regions of Uttar Pradesh."One of the two defence industrial corridors mentioned in the budget is for Bundelkhand... this will bring an investment of Rs 20,000 crore and generate employment for 2.5 lakh people," the Prime Minister said at the Investors Summit in Lucknow.Growth and job creation is crucial for the Bhartiya Janta Party in UP, before the parliamentary elections in 2019, as the state sends 80 Members of Parliament to Lok Sabha.Prime Minister Modi lauded Adityanath's new policy 'one district one product' and said that it could prove to be the game changer for the state. Mr Modi also said international airports in Jewar and Kushinagar are in the pipeline.Yogi Adityanath while reviewing the final touches to the preparations for the investors' summit this morning said, "The government is organising this for the betterment of the public and through this event, UP will get an opportunity to change its image".A total of 30 sessions have been planned for the two-day summit, which will be attended by central ministers Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Smriti Irani, Piyush Goyal and Dharmendra Pradhan. Industry leaders including Gautam Adani, Mukesh Ambani, Subhash Chandra, N Chandrashekharan, Anand Mahindra, Kumar Mangalam Birla and Shobana Kamineni are scheduled to speak during various sessions. Business leaders from Mauritius, Japan, The Netherlands, Finland, Czech Republic, Thailand and Slovakia are also in Lucknow to participate in Yogi Adityanath's flagship event. Speaking to reporters in Lucknow, state industries minister Satish Mahana said, "Prime Minister Modi and the Chief Minister want to make UP a dream destination for investors...we want to make history... we have already signed 900 MoUs.The chief minister has instructed the Director General of Police, UP, to ensure that traffic is smooth and security arrangements for the event are in place. Teams of the anti-terrorist squad have been deployed at the Indira Gandhi Pratisthan, and for the first time Special Police Operations Team have also been put on duty said ATS chief Asim Arun.

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