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Modi lays foundation of Rs 15,000 crore Bundelkhand Expressway

Terms Bundelkhand region as future 'Make in India' hub

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during a programme to distribute assistive aids and devices to differently-abled people. PTI

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
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

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