PM to lay the foundation of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh University in Aligarh

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, on 14 September 2021 at around 12 pm which will be followed by his address. Prime Minister Modi will also visit the exhibition models of the Aligarh node of Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor and Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University.

New Delhi:Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, on 14 September 2021 at around 12 pm which will be followed by his address. He will also visit the exhibition models of the Aligarh node of Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor and Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University.

The university is being established by the Uttar Pradesh government in memory and honour of the great freedom fighter, educationist, and social reformer, Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh. It is being set up in a total area of over ​​92 acres at village Lodha and village Musepur Kareem Jarouli of Aligarh's Kol tehsil. It will provide affiliation to 395 colleges of the Aligarh division.

This corridor was announced by Prime Minister Modi while inaugurating the UP Investors Summit in Lucknow on February 21, 2018. A total of 6 nodes – Aligarh, Agra, Kanpur, Chitrakoot, Jhansi and Lucknow – have been planned in the campus Defence Industrial Corridor.

In the Aligarh node, the land allocation process has been completed and it has been allotted to 19 firms, who will invest Rs 1.245 crore. The institute will help in making the country self-reliant in the field of defence production. The Governor and CM of UP will also be present on the occasion.