Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid the foundation stone of 296 km Bundelkhand Expressway, estimated to cost nearly Rs 15,000 crore, in Chitrakoot district of Uttar Pradesh.
Addressing the ceremony, Modi said the expressway together with the UP Defence Corridor in Bundelkhand would transform the socioeconomic landscape of the region, facilitate defence hardware exports globally and become a major ‘Make in India’ hub in future.
Noting that the two projects were interlinked, he said Bundelkhand Expressway would energise the Defence Corridor, whose foundation was also laid by Modi last year. In the recent DefExpo 2020 in Lucknow, the Yogi Adityanath government had signed 23 memorandum of understanding (MoU) with private companies entailing total investment of Rs 50,000 crore in the Corridor.
