Lucknow: Lucknow is all dressed up and ready to roll out a red carpet for investors at the UP Investors’ Summit- 2018 scheduled to be held on February 21 and 22.
The Yogi Adityanath government hopes to rake in investment worth Rs 1 lakh crore and give a new branding to Uttar Pradesh as a potential investment hub.
The state government has booked over 1,100 rooms in various four and five star hotels for the guests who will arrive for the summit which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
President Ram Nath Kovind will address the concluding session on February 22. A galaxy of business giants including Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, and top executives from majors like Cadila, Mahindra and Mahindra, Torrent and Essel, have confirmed their attendance at the event, which is aimed at hard-selling the state which, for years, has had promises made but negligible investments.
Special security arrang-ements are being made for the VIPs at the event which will be held at the Indira Gandhi Pratisht-han in Gomti Nagar.
The venue has already been made out of bounds for common people.and over 2,500 police personnel will secure the place. A fleet of luxury cars have been commissioned for the guests and four different menus of seven-course meals have been finalised for the food court where the participants will have their meals.
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath has not only inspected the venue but is also monitoring the arrangements for the event.
The entire state capital has been spruced up for the event. Murals of prominent city monuments have been painted on the walls of flyovers and new greenery is being planted along the roads that have been freshly repaired.
More than 2,600 LED street lights have been installed, pavements are being painted, hoardings and welcome arches have been put up at every crossing to welcome the delegates for the two day event.
The parks built in the BSP regime have been cleaned and repaired in order to enable guests to see these parks.
Meanwhile, UP minister for industrial development Satish Mahana said that Uttar Pradesh, which was earlier infamous for crime and corruption, is now on a revival path to create an environment conducive for development.
Robot to greet PM, guests
A trilingual robot is likely to welcome PM Narendra Modi at the UP Investors’ Summit on Wednesday.
The robot, built specially for the two-day summit, is fluent in three languages — Hin-di English and Sanskrit — and will welcome guests at the event.
The robot is also an added security feature and will “keep an eye” on all participants.
Milind Raj, who built the robot, said, “The robot is still in learning process. After collecting data it will become more intelligent than a human being. For security reason, it will be beneficial. It can scan retina of person who comes in front of it.”
The company which designed the robot calls it an “Artificial Intelligence Humanoid” which can imitate human habits by creating a database.
