Diversification of agriculture towards energy, power need of hour: Union minister Gadkari
Lucknow: Stressing that diversification of agriculture towards energy and power sectors is the need of the hour, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Monday asked Uttar Pradesh to move ahead in hydrogen production so that the country could become an energy exporting country. The Union minister also said that Uttar Pradesh, which was once regarded as bimaru pradesh, is moving towards development now and hailed Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for improving the law and order of the state.
“Diversification of agriculture towards the energy and power sector is the need of the hour and to make our farmers prosperous, Uttar Pradesh has sugarcane farmers in large numbers. “The Narendra Modi government has made policies to change the future of the farmers and it is bringing a change,” the minister said.
He was speaking after jointly inaugurating two national highway projects worth over Rs 3,300 crores in the state capital with local MP and union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. In his address, Rajnath Singh hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath respectively for their vision and mission in writing a new chapter of Lucknow and Uttar Pradesh. The two National Highway projects inaugurated included a four-lane elevated corridor at Madiaon IIM crossing on Lucknow-Sitapur section in Lucknow and four lane widening of Naviganj to Mitrasenpur on Aligarh-Kanpur section.
