New Delhi, May 30 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the Kanpur node of the Uttar Pradesh Defence Corridor is crucial for indigenous manufacturing, weeks after defence minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a BrahMos manufacturing facility in Lucknow.

The Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor is an initiative by the Centre and the UP government to boost defence manufacturing capacity in the country's most populous state. It has six nodes - Aligarh, Agra, Kanpur, Lucknow, Jhansi, and Chitrakoot.

Modi was speaking in Kanpur during the inauguration of projects worth Rs.47,600 crore, including thermal power plants, rail over bridges, and a sewage treatment plant.

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