Kanpur, Sept. 3 -- The Uttar Pradesh government is making all-out efforts to identify the state as a global hub for defence production, and recently detailed discussions were held in Kanpur on preparations for the next phase of the UP Defence Industrial Corridor (UPDIC).
At the 'Kanpur Regional Defence Workshop', organised in partnership with Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and the state government, it prominently emerged that Kanpur will become a major centre of defence production in the coming days. IIT Kanpur and BHU will support new technologies.
District Magistrate Jitendra Pratap Singh stated here on Thursday that Kanpur, known as the 'Manchester of the East', has the full potential to become a major defence manufacturing centre ...