The Uttar Pradesh government and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K), have joined hands to set up a Centre of Excellence for the proposed Bundelkhand Defence Corridor.
The proposed centre would entail investment of about Rs 3.65 billion, to be contributed by the state government and IIT-K, official sources told Business Standard.
UP chief secretary Anup Chandra Pandey has asked IIT-K deputy director Manindra Agarwal to prepare the detailed project report (DPR) so that the work begins as soon as possible.
After inaugurating UP Investors’ Summit on February 21 in Lucknow, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that a Defence Corridor would

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