As PM Modi inaugurates Kushinagar International Airport today, let’s see how Yogi Sarkar has transformed UP into ‘Airport Pradesh’ in last 4.5 years:
In 2016, UP had 2 functional airports ~ Lucknow & Varanasi. Today, it has 9 functional airports ~ 3 international & 6 domestic.
Prayagraj Airport:
Prayagraj Airport’s new terminal was completed & inaugurated in 2019. Today, there are 11 daily flights from this airport. Recently, it achieved the landmark of 12000 flights & 1 million passengers served since the launch of new terminal.
Gorakhpur Airport:
Gorakhpur Airport too got a new terminal building, which was inaugurated in September 2018 ~ phase 1 & 2 of expansion plan completed. Now, it's the fastest growing airport of North India & has 12 daily flights up from only one flight few years back.
Kanpur Airport:
While expansion work for a new terminal building is ongoing currently at Kanpur Airport, many new flight routes have been added in last couple of years increasing number of daily flights. New terminal is expected to be completed by March'22.
Hindon Airport:
New terminal building at Hindon Airport was Inaugurated in March 2019 by PM Modi & subsequently new flight routes were introduced. Hindon is now the second functional airport of NCR region. Today, flights to 8 cities available from Hindon Airport.
Bareilly Airport:
Bareilly’s new civil terminal was inaugurated in 2019 & first commercial flight started in March this year. Today, flights to Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow & more destinations available from Bareilly Airport. This became the 8th functional airport of the state.
Kushinagar Airport:
Inaugurated today by PM Modi, this becomes UP's 3rd International & overall 9th functional airport. A big boost for Buddhist Tourism, this is going to become an important growth engine of Purvanchal. At 3.2 kms, it has the longest runway in the state.
Lucknow Airport:
Capital's Airport is being expanded for future requirements. T3 terminal being built at ₹1383 crores with a built up area of 1 million sqft. T3 completion is targeted in 2022, post which airport will be able to handle 10 million passengers annually.
Varanasi Airport:
2nd international airport of the state is also being expanded with a new swanky terminal. It’s expected to be completed by 2024 & will be able to handle 4.5 million passengers annually then. A new highway connecting airport to city was inaugurated recently.
3 new no-frills airports are ready to be added to the aero-map of UP. The civil work for terminal building & runway has been almost completed at these airports & very soon flights will be inaugurated from here:
Pic1 ~ Azamgarh
Pic2 ~ Aligarh
Pic3 ~ Shrawasti
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In the same year, a new industrial township on the outskirts of Noida was established - Greater Noida
By 1995, Greater Noida started attracting global automakers. Next few years saw many giants establish their manufacturing base here.
What happened next? A thread.
It started with South Korean automaker Daewoo Motors in 1995.
Daewoo set-up a huge manufacturing facility with 1 lakh vehicles annual production capacity for its iconic brands like Matiz and Cielo.
200 acres plant, located in Surajpur Industrial Area, was set-up with an investment of almost Rs 4,500 crores in multiple phases, generating thousand of jobs.
After Korean, next came the Japanese global giant - Honda Motors.
Two years after Daewoo, Honda commissioned its plant in Surajpur Industrial Area - in 1997.
Huge 150 acres manufacturing facility was set-up with an investment of Rs 1620 crores in phases to manufacture popular brands like City, Accord & CR-V.
Plant started with 30,000 vehicles capacity initially, ramping up to 1,00,000 vehicles annually later.
In one week from now, the largest religious festival ever happened on this earth will begin in Prayagraj.
The Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati Sangam will witness an unprecedented show of devotion, faith, and humanity.
A thread on what it means.
First the context!
Mahakumbh is organized every 12 years at 4 places ~ Prayagraj, Ujjain, Nashik & Haridwar.
Why 4 places? It is because during Samudra Manthan, the Amrit drops from the Kumbh fell in these 4 locations.
Why 12 years? Because Jupiter takes 12 years to orbit around the Sun.
Prayagraj Kumbh is organized when Jupiter is in Taurus, the Sun, Moon are in Capricorn.
Now the scale.
This year's Maha Kumbh is special as planetary alignment are auspicious which happens once in 144 years only:
🔸4,000 hectares Mela Area
🔸40 crores devotees expected to come
🔸Rs 6,382 crores budget allocated by the government
🔸Mela Kshetra is declared as 76th district of UP with all administrative powers of a DM given to Mela Adhikari.
Some big events, major achievements and initiatives that have potential to change the socio-economic conditions of Uttar Pradesh forever.
Here is a thread on flashback 2024. Read on:
The year started on a truly auspicious note with the Pran Pratishtha of Shri Ram Lalla Sarkar in Ayodhya.
A civilizational wound was finally healed ~ a 500 years wait of Hindu Samaj finally over. Bharat celebrated the day like an early Deepawali festival and entire Ayodhya was lit with millions of Diyas on 22 January 2024.
Over 5 lakh people had Darshan of Shri Ram Lalla on the very first day of the Ram Mandir opening. Since then, more than 100 million devotees have visited Ayodhya.
Ram Mandir has started changing the economic face of Ayodhya and its people as well. The city got a swanky railway station, an international airport and many other infrastructure projects.
The transformation continues in coming years.
Jai Shri Ram🚩
2024 was a great year for One District, One Medical College!
As many as 16 medical colleges became operational this year ~ a maximum for any state since independence.
Of these, 13 are state medical colleges and 3 developed on PPP mode with viability gap finding by the government.
With these medical colleges, 1650 additional MBBS seats were added in the state.
Districts which got new medical college this year: