DEE News | UP GIS 2023: Minister Hardeep Singh Puri says – By 2024, India will have second largest metro rail network after China

Feb 12,2023

At the UP Global Investors Summit today, Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that India will be among the developed countries by 2040. He said that by 2024, India will be the second largest country in the world with metro services after China.

Lucknow, Jagran Correspondent. In Uttar Pradesh, from June 2015 to March 2017, the then chief secretary and secretary-level officials of the state government did not allow the central government to take advantage of the schemes. Not even listed for PM Awas Yojana. In 2017, after the government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, more than 17 lakh people got a roof over their heads. Metro is needed for city development. The metro was started in 2002 by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Bapjayi.

The country has more than 850 km of metro system.
Today we have more than 850 km metro system and soon metro will run on 139 km By 2024, we will be the second largest country in the world with metro services after China. The central government will build affordable houses for senior citizens and Uttar Pradesh will spearhead the project. Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri gave this information at a session on ‘Reimagining City to become new Growth Center of Uttar Pradesh’ organized at Vyas Hall on the occasion of UP Global Investors Summit.

By 2040 we will be a developed country
Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that India is fast moving towards a five trillion dollar economy.
By 2040 we will be a developed country. Our goal is to reach a $25 trillion economy by 2047.
With Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath calling for more smart cities, the face of cities is changing today.
Hardeep Singh Puri also said that government projects cannot be completed without the private sector.
Warehouses are being constructed on PPP model under the Smart City Mission.

For affordable housing, the state government provides land and the central government provides subsidy, but the private sector prepares it with quality at low cost.
Today we have grown from the ninth to the fifth largest economy. Per capita income has doubled in the last six-seven years.
Investors flock to the Global Investors Summit. They know that good governance boosts industrial sector and industrialists get good returns.
Earlier, garbage used to be the address of the house

Urban Development Minister AK Sharma said that the state government has done a great job in cleanliness. More than 4,000 landfills have been eliminated. A Muslim thanked by making a video. He said, if someone came earlier, they would say that the house is next to garbage. Now that the garbage pile has moved, our home address has changed. Additional Chief Secretary, Housing and Urban Planning, Nitin Ramesh Gokorn said that UP will achieve one trillion economy through housing and urban development. The state capital region will be modeled after NCR. At the same time 100 new townships are going to be built in UP. Land use will be changed by introducing TOD policy on both sides of metro. It will increase business activities. 59 cities in the state have GIS-based master plans in the pipeline. Deloitte’s Debashish Biswas said tourism in UP has immense potential to boost the economy.