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Union Home Minister addresses the ‘Uttarakhand Investment Festival 2025’
Union Home and Cooperation Minister Shri Amit Shah addressed the ‘Uttarakhand Investment Festival – 2025’, organized on the occasion of realisation of Rs. 1 lakh crore worth of investments in Uttarakhand, and inauguration and foundation laying ceremony of various development projects worth Rs. 1,271 crore by the state government on 19 July 2025. On this occasion, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami, Yog Guru Baba Ramdev, along with several other dignitaries, were present.
Addressing the ‘Uttarakhand Investment Festival 2025’, Shri Amit Shah said that every time he visits Uttarakhand, he returns with a renewed sense of energy. He stated that during the 2023 Global Investors Summit held in Uttarakhand, when Chief Minister Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami informed him that the state had received MoUs worth Rs. 3.56 lakh crore, he had remarked that signing MoUs is not a major achievement—implementing them on the ground is the real challenge.
Shri Shah noted Chief Minister Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami, despite all adverse circumstances and by breaking traditional perceptions, has successfully brought in investments exceeding Rs. 1 lakh crore in the state. He added that along with these investments, more than 81,000 jobs have been created in Uttarakhand. Additionally, it is estimated that ancillary industries will generate around 2.5 lakh new employment opportunities. Importantly, investment has reached even Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities. He emphasized that industrial growth in the state has been pursued while maintaining a balance with environmental sustainability. He praised Chief Minister Shri Dhami for outlining a new roadmap for Uttarakhand’s development, marked by transparency in policy, speed in implementation, and vision in planning.
Shri Amit Shah said that Modi Ji has drawn the blueprint for the development of the entire country. Whether it is development of infrastructure, bringing clarity in education policy, laying the foundation of industrial development of the country, taking the economy forward, Modi Ji has made many records in every field. He said the Modi government has increased the length of national highways by 60 percent in the last 10 years. Work has been done to build 8 lakh kilometer of new roads in rural areas. Convenient ‘Vande Bharat’ trains have reached 333 districts of the country. 45 thousand kilometers of railway lines have been electrified. 88 new airports have been built and inland waterway cargo has increased 11 times. It is the result of these development works that Atal Ji had then brought the economy of this country at number 11 position, which Modi Ji has upscaled it from number 11 to number 4 in 10 years.
Highlights
• The Union Home Minister congratulates the Uttarakhand Chief Minister and his team on bringing investment of more than one lakh crore in Uttarakhand to reality.
• Uttarakhand is an excellent example of balance between environment and industrial development.
• Ayurveda, Yoga, Organic Farming and Natural Treatment are set to become four important pillars of development of Uttarakhand.
• Opposition should stop the practice of disrupting development of states.
• Shri Narendra Shri Modi has busted the myth that industrial development and welfare of the poor can’t take place simultaneously.