As Rajnath Singh Inaugurates BrahMos Plant In UP, Here's How India's Defence Production Is Set To Skyrocket
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Not only does it establish UP and India on the global map of defence manufacturing, but it is also one of Rajnath Singh's gifts to the people of his constituency, Lucknow
The BrahMos Aerospace Integration and Testing Facility, set up in a joint venture with the Russian government, is one of defence minister Rajnath Singh's pet projects.
Not only does it establish Uttar Pradesh and India on the global map of defence manufacturing, but it is also one of Rajnath Singh's gifts to the people of his constituency, Lucknow.
'Today is personally a big day for me as I have realised the aim to make Lucknow a defence manufacturing hub. 500 direct jobs and 1,000 indirect jobs will be created here," said Singh on Sunday as he virtually inaugurated the BrahMos production unit at the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor in Lucknow amid swirling military tensions with Pakistan.
World's fastest supersonic missile
Touted as the world's fastest supersonic missile, BrahMos production in Lucknow would also see seven ancillary units related to it coming up in the city.
'Private defence manufacturers like PTC Industries are expanding in the region and setting up a titanium and super alloy plant in Lucknow. Very soon the entire region, including Kanpur, would re-emerge as a manufacturing hub," said Rajnath Singh.
Remembering Vajpayee
Stating that BrahMos is a strong message of India's defence might, Rajnath also invoked former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
'On this very day, during Vajpayee ji's tenure as PM, we tested our nuclear capability in Pokhran," he said.
Singh said that the entire BrahMos project had come up in a record 40-month period and was part of the visionary Defence Corridor project announced by Prime Minister Modi.
The BrahMos unit in Lucknow will be the 'centrepiece" of the Defence Corridor Project in Uttar Pradesh.
India will manufacture its next-generation BrahMos (BrahMos-NG) at this unit, and Rs 3,000 crore has been committed as an investment for the project by BrahMos Aerospace, the joint venture of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) of India and NPO Mashinostroeyenia of Russia. Rs 1,500 crore of investment will come in phase one, and more than 100 BrahMos missiles will be manufactured here in the next three years.
80 hectares of land were allotted at a nominal cost. The BrahMos Unit will be the centre of production, which will make the main difference in the upcoming Defence Corridor in UP.
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