Yogi govt sets up investment promotion board in UP

Leading industrialists inducted as members

To accelerate industrialisation and attract investment, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has set up a State Investment Promotion Board.

Leading industrialists have been inducted as members of the Board. The setting up of the Board was among the promises of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in its UP poll manifesto.

While, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is the chairman of the Investment Promotion Board it would, among others, comprise 11 industrialists as members representing different industrial sectors.

These include Jagdish Khattar (Carnation Auto), Pankaj Patel (Zydus Cadila), Kulin Lalbhai (Arvind Mills), Ajay Shriram (Shriram Group), U S Bhartia