Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Scraps Rs 6,000-Crore Food Processing Park In UP, Blames Yogi Govt's Disappointing Attitude

Patanjali Ayurveda owned by Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev has announced that the company is pulling out of a mega food park which was to be set up in Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh.

According to the company, it decided to pull out of the Rs 6,000-crore venture due to lack of support from the state government.

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“Today I was informed that the central government-sanctioned mega food park had been cancelled... in the holy land of Ram and Krishna, the scheme to bring prosperity to the lives of farmers is incomplete due to the apathy of the state government,” Patanjali managing director Acharya Balkrishna said in a Tweet.

Balkrishna said the company had not been able to complete the formalities needed to qualify for the centre's food park scheme because the Uttar Pradesh government had been dragging its feet on the paperwork.

"We did not get any cooperation from the state government for this project. We have waited for a long time for clearances but could not get from the state government. Now we have decided to shift the project," he told ANI.

In 2016, the then Akhilesh Yadav government had approved the food park in Greater Noida and allocated around 455 acres of land to the Haridwar based company on the Yamuna Expressway.

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Other than the food park, Patanjali had also proposed to set up a university and a research center there spanning an area of 25 acres.

According to Patanjali, once the food park becomes operational, it could produce goods worth Rs 25,000 crore annually and create over 10,000 direct jobs.

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Following Patanjali's surprise announcement on Tuesday, UP CM Yogi Adityanath himself has stepped into control the damage.

According to reports, the Chief Minister who spoke to Ramdev has assured him that he will personally look into the matter and promised that decisions will be taken at quick pace.