Uttar Pradesh will acquire about 2,500 acres to set up a manufacturing centre under the mega Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor (AKIC).
It will identify land at three proposed places: Chola in Bulandshahr district, Naini in Prayagraj (Allahabad) district or Bhaupur in Kanpur district, for the project called integrated manufacturing cluster, according to directions issued by UP chief secretary Rajendra Kumar Tiwari.
K Sanjay Murthi, chief executive officer and managing director of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor and Development Corporation (DMICDC), met Tiwari on Wednesday to discuss land acquisition.
According to Murthy, work on the 351-km Khurja-Bhaupur section under the AKIC will finish by March