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Yogi Highlights Uttar Pradesh’s Electronics Growth and AI Plans

Yogi Highlights Uttar Pradesh’s Electronics Growth and AI Plans
CM Yogi Adityanath Says UP Produces Nearly 60% Of India's Mobile Phones, Eyes Next Leap From Microchips To AI · freepressjournal.in

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath described how technology businesses have grown in the state.

He said Uttar Pradesh now makes nearly 60% of India’s mobile phones.

He also said it produces 55% of the country’s electronics components.

A chip-making unit is being set up in Jewar, and the state has received proposals for data centres.

The government also wants to build an AI City.

Through a programme called AI-Pragya, it aims to teach one million young people about new technologies.

Adityanath said this growth could help young people start businesses and find work.

He credited the current government’s policies and criticised earlier governments for not bringing projects to fruition.

Key facts

Mobile phone production
Nearly 60% of India’s total, according to Adityanath
Electronics components
55% of India’s total, according to Adityanath
Chip unit
An HCL-Foxconn unit worth Rs 3,706 crore is being established in Jewar
Data centres
Proposals for 644 MW have been received
Startups and unicorns
More than 24,000 startups and eight unicorns in the state
AI-Pragya target
Connect one million young people with new-age technology
Lucknow programme
Marking 10 years of HCLTech’s presence in the state; an Emerging Tech Skilling Centre was to be inaugurated

Quotes

Yogi Adityanath

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

“When there was greater concern for families than the state and for criminals than investors, how could an environment for the technology of the future have been created?”
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