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Yogi pitches UP as Japan’s second home with Rs 2,000 crore investment
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday pitched the state as a destination for Japanese investment, announcing at the UP-Japan Investment Meet that investment commitments worth Rs 2,000 crore had been…
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday pitched the state as a destination for Japanese investment, announcing at the UP-Japan Investment Meet that investment commitments worth Rs 2,000 crore had been secured. He said a dedicated Japan City was being developed and that a new facility capable of producing 60,000 tractors annually would be set up.
Adityanath invited Japanese companies to treat Uttar Pradesh as their 'second home', highlighting the state’s 96 lakh MSME units, 22,000 startups, and its position as the third-largest economy by state GDP. He said the state accounts for 55% of India’s mobile phone production and spans nine climatic zones, contributing 21% of national food grain output.
The chief minister also pointed to infrastructure projects including the Bundelkhand and Purvanchal Expressways, completed ahead of schedule and under budget. He said the state was developing semiconductor, data centre and electronics manufacturing units, along with an EV bus plant and a defence manufacturing hub.
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Uttar Pradesh is India’s most populous state and its third-largest economy by state GDP, yet it has historically attracted far less foreign direct investment than Gujarat, Maharashtra or Karnataka. The Japan City project, modelled on industrial townships such as the Neemrana Japanese Zone in Rajasthan, is part of a broader push by the Yogi Adityanath government to shift the state’s image from a law-and-order problem to an investment destination. The Rs 2,000 crore announced at this meet is modest compared to the Rs 33,000 crore in investment proposals the state claimed at the 2023 UP Global Investors Summit, but the focus on Japanese capital and semiconductor units signals a targeted pitch for high-value manufacturing. The next concrete test will be how many of these memoranda convert into operational factories, the state’s track record on land acquisition and power supply will determine that.
Source: indiatoday.in
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