New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday laid the foundation for the Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University and the Defence Corridor in a grand event that is likely to be attended by around 1.5 lakh people.
The inauguration of the university named after the Jat icon is widely perceived as a masterstroke ahead of the next year's Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh as farmers protest has been gaining momentum in the state's western part, a Jat dominated area.
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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.
The university will provide affiliation to 395 colleges of the Aligarh division. The defence corridor, on the other hand, was announced by Modi while inaugurating the UP Investors Summit in Lucknow on February 21, 2018. A total of six nodes – Aligarh, Agra, Kanpur, Chitrakoot, Jhansi and Lucknow – have been planned in the campus Defence Industrial Corridor.
