Question: Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on January 20, 2019 inaugurated India’s second Defense Industrial Corridor in which State?
(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Andhra Pradesh
(c) Odisha
(d) Rajasthan
Answer: (a)
Related facts:
- On 20 January 2019, Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated the Tamil Nadu Defense Industrial Corridor from Tiruchirappalli, taking a major step forward to boost indigenous production of defense equipment.
- The Tamil Nadu Defence Industrial Corridor is a mega corridor, which will link leading military manufacturing units in five cities of South India, including Chennai, Hosur, Coimbatore, Salem and Tiruchirappalli.
- The corridor is the second defense corridor being set up by the government to support various defense manufacturing units. The first one is being established in Uttar Pradesh as Uttar Pradesh Defense Industrial Corridor at Aligarh on 11th August, 2018.
- Investments worth around Rs 3,038 crore were announced for this defense corridor during its inauguration itself.