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UP Investors' Summit 2018: Union Cabinet heaps praise on Yogi govt

After defence corridor, Bundelkhand to benefit from railway project

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and UP Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma attend the UP Investors Summit 2018 at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan in Lucknow on Thursday. Photo: PTI
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Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and UP Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma attend the UP Investors Summit 2018 at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan in Lucknow on Thursday. Photo: PTI

Sahil MakkarVirendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
Union Cabinet ministers continued to dominate the second and final day of the Uttar Pradesh investors’ summit, most of them praising Chief Minister Adtiyanath for the improved law and order situation in the state. 

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal announced the setting up of a coach-refurbishment factory in the drought-prone region of Bundelkhand and a rail ancillary park in Fatehpur. He said the capacity of the Rae Bareli coach factory would be tripled in the next three years.

“We shall produce 1,000 coaches next year, 2,000 the year after, and 3,000 in the third year,” Goyal said, adding that the Dudhwa-Lakhimpur