Which city of Uttar Pradesh is known as the Manchester of the East for its textile and leather industry?

The fertile plain of western Uttar Pradesh, watered by canals and tube wells, carries the densest sugarcane tract in the country, and the state leads India both in cane grown and in sugar produced, with mills concentrated in Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur and Bijnor.

Firozabad has been the centre of the Indian glass industry for more than a century, and its furnaces turn out bangles, chandeliers and glassware that are sold across the country; the trade is also the district product under the One District One Product programme.

The state government launched the programme in January 2018, giving every district a flagship traditional product and offering its artisans and small units credit, training, common facilities and marketing support, and the idea was later taken up more widely at the national level.

The corridor announced for the state has six nodes, at Lucknow, Kanpur, Jhansi, Chitrakoot, Aligarh and Agra, and Varanasi, although a major city of the state, is not among them.

The Purvanchal Expressway runs east from the Lucknow district to Ghazipur, passing through the eastern districts of the state, and it was built to open up a region that had little fast road connection before.