The work on the BrahMos missile manufacturing website in Lucknow is more likely to be accomplished by March subsequent 12 months, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh stated Saturday.
Talking in Gomti Nagar right here on the second day of the tour of his parliamentary constituency Singh stated “The work on BrahMos missile project is also going on at a fast pace and after next February-March, the missile manufacturing will begin on the soil of Lucknow,” the BJP chief stated.
Developed by an India-Russia three way partnership, the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile will be launched from submarines, ships, plane or land platforms.
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The work on the Defence Analysis and Improvement Organisation (DRDO) lab will even be accomplished quickly, Singh stated. He stated there have been 11 different tasks in Lucknow which were undertaken.
“Though they will take some time to complete, I can say that people will see a completely different Lucknow in the next few years,” the minister stated. Throughout his go to in June, Singh had stated that “everything from nuts and bolts to BrahMos missiles would be manufactured in the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor (UPDIC)”.
“We have created a conducive environment for defence manufacturing through the defence corridors in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. UPDIC has told me that there is a plan to acquire about 1,700 hectares of land for this corridor, of which more than 95 per cent of the land has already been acquired,” he had stated.
Based on a press release issued by the Bharatiya Janata Get together on Saturday, the minister inspected the continuing work of the Munshi Pulia Over Bridge being constructed at Khurram Nagar and Polytechnic intersection in Indira Nagar Sector 25 on the second day of his go to to his Lok Sabha constituency Lucknow.
He additionally inspected the continuing work at Gomti Nagar railway station. Singh stated, “I am satisfied with the way the work is going on at Gomti Nagar Railway Station. It will be completed by December.”