Nand Gopal Gupta, the Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh has recently informed a central panel on industrial corridor that a multimodal logistics and transport hub is being planned in UP for which about 1,143 hectares of land has been acquired in Noida and Greater Noida. Another 205 hectares of land is being planned to be acquired in the region in the coming months. The central panel on industrial corridor is the Apex Monitoring Authority for the National Industrial Corridor Development Programme.
Mr. Gupta further revealed areas of Agra-Prayagraj-Noida in the state are included under the Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor among the country’s 11 industrial corridors. The work on an industrial township in Noida is going on a fast mode and land has been allotted to six companies. Simultaneously, our multi-modal logistic hub and multi-modal transport Hub in Dadri, near Noida are also coming up, Gupta informed. Coming to the PM Gati Shakti Plan, he said the projects that have been sent under the ‘PM Gatishakti’ initiative have been approved by the central government. The industrial corridor has a very important role in making Uttar Pradesh a one trillion dollar economy. Our government is committed to completing the nodes (Agra, Prayagraj, Greater Noida) of Uttar Pradesh in a time-bound manner, he said.