PM Modi hails ‘investment of crores of rupees’ in UP at Global Investors Summit in Lucknow | LIVE

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (February 19) addressed the Uttar Pradesh Global Investors Summit in Lucknow and said that a condusive atmosphere for investment and employment was not present nearly seven years ago, but today crores of rupees are being invested in the state.

“We are gathered here with the resolve to build ‘Viksit Uttar Pradesh’ for ‘Viksit Bharat’. I have been told that through technology, lakhs of people from more than 400 Vidhan Sabha seats of UP are connected to this event…7-8 years back, we couldn’t even think that there could be such an atmosphere in Uttar Pradesh regarding investment and employment. There used to be news of crime, riots and snatching. At that time, if someone said that UP would be developed, perhaps nobody would have been ready to even hear that…Today, lakhs and crores of rupees of investment are coming into Uttar Pradesh…” he said.

Unprecedented positivity regarding India seen across globe: PM Modi

The Prime Minister said that the world is looking at India with “unprecedented positivity” today.

“I am not assessing today’s event only in terms of investment. The hope, the hope for better returns I am seeing in all investors has an extensive context. Today, you can go anywhere in the world – unprecedented positivity regarding India is seen,” he said.