🚩Defence corridor of India 🚩

⏭️Q.1. Where is the defence corridor of India located?

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⏭️Defence Industrial Corridor of UP:

It is an aspirational project that intends to reduce foreign dependency of the Indian Aerospace & Defence Sector.

✅It will have 6 nodes – Aligarh, Agra, Kanpur, Chitrakoot, Jhansi and Lucknow.

⏭️Tamil Nadu Defence Industrial Corridor

It comprises Chennai, Tiruchirappalli, Coimbatore, Salem and Hosur.

✅ It will create new defence production facilities and promote clusters with necessary testing and certification facilities, export facilitation centres, technology transfer facilitation, etc.

✅The corridor was inaugurated in 2019.

🚩Some extra bites🚩👉⤵️

✅The government has established another Defence Industrial Corridor in Tamil Nadu.

✅A defence corridor refers to a route or a path along which domestic productions of defence equipment by public sector, private sector and MSMEs are lined up to enhance the operational capability of the defence forces.

🚩Significance:

It will help in making the nation self-reliant in the field of defense production and promoting 'Make in India', which will reduce our imports and promote the export of these items to other countries.