Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. He also visited the exhibition models of the Aligarh node of Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor and Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University.
The university will also emerge as a centre of modern defence studies, defence manufacturing-related technology and manpower development.
The new National Education Policy’s features of skills and education in the local language will benefit this university.
One-and-a- half dozen defence manufacturing companies will create thousands of jobs with hundreds of crores of rupees investment.
New industries are coming up to support the manufacture of small arms, armaments, drones and aerospace-related products in the Aligarh Node of the Defence Corridor. This will give new identities to Aligarh and nearby areas.