Lucknow, Jan. 6 -- Two years after the handover of land by the state government to Ashok Leyland, electric vehicles (buses) will roll out from the plant on January 9 marking a new chapter in industrialisation of the state.

Interestingly, the Ashok Leyland plant has been set up on the same land from where Scooters India Ltd functioned

The Yogi Adityanath government had signed an MoU with Ashok Leyland in September 2023, issued the Letter of Intent in January 2024, and thereafter, the world-class plant was established in just 14 months.

Ashok Leyland has invested around Rs.1,000 crore in the project. The Lucknow unit is an integrated chassis and bus-manufacturing plant with an initial production capacity of 2,500 units per year. It will ...