Kanpur airport to be named after Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi: Yogi Adityanath

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today said the Kanpur airport would be named after Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi and Panki railway station would be named as Panki Dham railway station.

The chief minister was in Kanpur today where he laid the foundation stone and inaugurated projects worth Rs 850 crore for the city.

The chief minister, on the occasion, also laid foundation of nine projects worth Rs 275 crore under the smart city mission project.

Adityanath stressed on maintaining quality of the development works, saying it was necessry to give a momentum to the state's development.

The chief minister said that his government was seriously working on cleaning of all the major rivers, including Ganga, and making them pollution free.