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Bharti Enterprises vice-chairman meets CM Yogi Adityanath, discusses investment proposals

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath assures all possible help from the government, reiterates resolve for ease of living in state

Published on: Dec 15, 2022, 21:39:49 IST
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Bharti Enterprises (Airtel) vice-chairman Rakesh Bharti Mittal met chief minister Yogi Adityanath here on Thursday and discussed investment proposals.

Bharti Enterprises vice-chairman Rakesh Bharti Mittal meets Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow on Thursday. (HT PHOTO)
Bharti Enterprises vice-chairman Rakesh Bharti Mittal meets Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow on Thursday. (HT PHOTO)

Mittal presented new proposals for investment in Uttar Pradesh, according to a press release.

The Bharti group proposes to invest in Uttar Pradesh for data center, digital banking and vocational education. Discussions were also held on the implementation of Digital India Mission and improvement of communication facilities. The meeting was held at the chief minister’s official residence.

Mittal said Bharti Enterprises has prepared a complete action plan for investment.

Airtel’s 5G services have partially started in Uttar Pradesh, he said. Very soon, all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh will be able to take advantage of 5G high speed internet service, he added. Mittal also said the Bharti Group was working in a planned manner to lay optical fibre to ensure better internet connectivity even in remote areas. He said the positive cooperation was expected from the state government in this regard.

Yogi Adityanath assured him of all possible help from the government and reiterated his resolve for ease of living in the state. He said his government was making efforts to ensure that every citizen should have access to education and health services in every village, every town and every city.

He said the use of internet technology was the biggest help in this regard. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India Mission was an important foundation stone for New Uttar Pradesh and New India, he added.

The chief minister said discussions have been held to increase use of technology in every field like education, health, industry and banking.

Yogi praised the efforts of Bharti Enterprises for the availability of high-quality communication facilities in Uttar Pradesh. Additionally, he gave an assurance that the state government would support them in every way it could in their efforts for the betterment of Uttar Pradesh.

Mittal said that the group is working on priority to facilitate high-level communication services in Uttar Pradesh, which has a large area and huge population. He was highly impressed by the better implementation of the Digital India Mission in Uttar Pradesh under chief minister’s leadership. He said every investment proposal of the group would be worked on at a fast pace.

The Bharti Group was invited to participate in the proposed Uttar Pradesh Global Investors’ Summit to be held from February 10 to 12, 2023.

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    Umesh Raghuvanshi

    Umesh Raghuvanshi is an award-winning journalist with nearly four decades of demonstrated experience in the profession. He is the author of Ayodhya: The Gods Are Liberated. He is skilled in storytelling and newswriting, and writes on politics, governance, legislature, finance, environment, and social issues. He is based in Lucknow, is well-travelled, and has covered several national and international events, as well as all assembly and parliament elections in Uttar Pradesh since 1984. He has been a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and a Metcalf Fellow at the Metcalf Institute of Marine and Environmental Reporting, University of Rhode Island, USA. He is a science graduate from DBS College, Dehradun, and holds an MA in Political Science from DAV (PG) College, Dehradun. He won the KC Kulish International Merit Award for excellence in journalism (2015) and received it in New Delhi in 2017. He also won a competition organised by the United Nations Environment Programme DTIE OzonAction Programme in 2009 that assessed coverage of the interlinkages between ozone and climate change. He was awarded in Beijing, China, in 2010. He started his career with a Dehradun-based English daily in the early 1980s and later worked with The Pioneer too.Read More