MUMBAI: The Uttar Pradesh government is for the first time, drafting its own logistics policy , as higher industrial activity, economic growth and the government’s recent policy decisions are triggering unprecedented growth in the sector."With both the eastern and the western freight corridors and several industrial corridors passing through Uttar Pradesh, we are at a good position to take advantage of this logistics revolution which we expect to see in the next two years," Rajive Kumar, chief secretary of the UP state government, told ET recently.The policy will entail the establishment of at least five industrial parks across the state, the smallest with an investment of Rs 200 crore, said another top official in the UP government. The policy will also include various incentives for logistics players if they invest in this sector in the state.This and three other policies -- on pharma, electric vehicles and defense -- were discussed at a meeting of the state government officials on January 3."This was an inter-departmental meeting wherein several modalities of the policy were discussed. Next week, we have meetings with players from the logistics and warehousing industry on how best they can contribute to the policy," said a third senior official. He said the state government aims to have a concrete framework of the logistics policy in two weeks.Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are the two other states said to be drafting their own logistics policies.UP is India's most populous state, accounting for 16.5% of the country's population. It is India's third largest economic contributor, contributing 8.5% to its GDP.A logistics policy is critical to UP as the state administration has never been too friendly to players in the space, said industry executives. Transporters have been traditionally harassed at highway check posts and investment proposals have been caught in the web of red tape. The UP government was also among the first to implement the e-way bill (a digital permit and tracker of cargo transportation in the country) in what’s seen as its most complicated form.The logistics sector holds a lot of promise, thanks to the goods and services tax introduced earlier this year and the recently conferred infrastructure status to the sector. GST will change the structure of warehousing in the country leading companies to bigger, better facilities. Infrastructure status will make borrowing easier in the sector.The UP government has been in talks wih Container Corp of India to set up a logistics park in Bhaupur, near Kanpur. The Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Corporation is in the process of acquiring 100 acres of land for the same. The smallest of such hubs will be built at an estimated cost of Rs 200 crore, said one of the persons cited above. Similar such hubs are envisaged to be built along the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) and the Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor (AKIC).DMIC is one of the world's largest infrastructure projects with an estimated investment of $90 billion and is planned as a high-tech industrial zone spread across six states, along the 1,500-km long western dedicated freight corridor. The plan entails 24 industrial regions, eight smart cities, two airports, five power projects, two mass rapid transit systems, and two logistical hubs. The AKIC is a project aimed at developing an industrial zone covering seven Indian states.