The Uttar Pradesh government has identified about 5,125 hectares of land for the development of the proposed Bundelkhand Defence Corridor.
Land swathes across Aligarh, Agra, Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow, and Chitrakoot comprise the six nodes of the proposed corridor, aimed at bolstering UP amongst the top defence manufacturing states in India.
Earlier, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had directed officials to expedite the consolidation of the land bank, so that it could be allocated to the private defence manufacturers.
There are about 1,100 manufacturing units in UP, which would be divided among the six nodes for defence production once the corridor becomes