Uttar Pradesh on track to become trillion dollar economy: PM Modi

'I believe that UP would not take much time to achieve the challenge and become a trillion dollar economy,' Modi noted

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said  Uttar Pradesh was on track to becoming India’s first trillion dollar economy.

After inaugurating UP Investors’ Summit 2018 on February 21 here, Modi had thrown a challenge to Maharashtra and UP as to which among the two states could emerge as the first state to touch the trillion dollar economy level.

Modi, who laid the foundation of projects worth Rs 600 billion here today, said the ‘groundbreaking ceremony’ was actually ‘record-breaking ceremony’ given the short time that the Yogi Adityanath government had taken to start work on such high-value projects.

“What the UP