LUCKNOW, May 30 -- After announcing electronics manufacturing clusters (EMC) along Yamuna Expressway and at Greater Noida, the Yogi government is now gearing up to develop a third EMC in eastern Uttar Pradesh. The government will be making the policy changes soon in order to attract IT firms to the eastern part of the state by offering more incentives to them.

Recently, a semiconductor unit by Foxconn and HCL was okayed by the Centre near the Jewar airport in the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) area. The new semiconductor unit - the first in Uttar Pradesh - is expected to attract an investment of Rs.3,700 crore.

Confirming the development, state's IT and electronics minister Sunil Kumar Sharma told HT, "EMC 1 ...