UTTAR PRADESH

Giving wings to the hopes of the youth, the Uttar Pradesh government’s Swarojgar Yojana aims to make them financially stable by providing them employment and youths are being trained in various skills under the programme so that they may move towards self-reliance.

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Mega camps are also being organised at district level for disbursement of loans to the beneficiaries of Micro, Small and Medium enterprises (MSME), Swarojgar and One District One Product (ODOP) schemes. Owing to these schemes, the educated unemployed are getting opportunities and skilled and hard working youths are getting a chance to stand on their feet.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had launched Mukhyamantri Yuva Swarojgar Yojana on August 11 last year to connect the youth with self-EMPLOYMENT. Under the scheme, youths are being attracted towards self-employment by giving them loans through banks as well as other support and as many as 1,11,000 young artisans are being trained.

The government has sanctioned loans worth more than Rs 7,500 crore to the beneficiaries of MSME, self-employed, ODOP, PM SVANidhi and other schemes by organising mega camps in all districts of the state from August 11. It is also going to organise campaigns soon to provide benefits of the scheme to other youths of the state. The government has also issued instructions to organise mega camps at the divisional level in the second half of September.

Uttar Pradesh government to aid farmer producer organisations to get loans upto Rs 5 lakh from banks

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In a financial push to the agricultural sector, the on Monday decided to help farmer producer organisations (FPOs) in getting loans from banks besides provisioning aid in payable interest. Issuing a government order, additional chief secretary (Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture) Devesh Chaturvedi said that FPOs have the provision of getting WORKING CAPITAL under the Centres directions. He said FPOs face financial crunch because of the shortage of share capital and less number of members. This results in problems pertaining to purchase of raw material and other requisite equipment.

Chaturvedi said that at present, commercial, cooperative, schedule and regional banks are providing loans to FPOs at the rate of 9-11% to carry out commercial activities.

Centre lauds UPs performance in Jal Jeevan Mission

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The Central government has commended the Uttar Pradesh government for its performance in the national survey of the Jal Jeevan Mission, which aims to provide clean drinking water to rural households.

The state has topped the list in several categories, including best performing and fastest moving districts.

The Government of India has congratulated UP Chief Secretary Durga Shankar Mishra through a letter for topping in the Best Performing and Fastest Moving categories of the districts for consecutive months in the National Survey of Jal Jeevan. Many districts of UP have made it to the top in the list of aspirants, performers and achievers of both these categories,

According to the minister, the Central letter says districts of UP have made their own identity in the national survey and even in aspirational districts, the manner in which tap water is being delivered to rural families is also unprecedented.

The government has also taken steps to provide 25-50 per cent of the households with water connections. In May, UP got the second position among the states in the category where maximum numbers of tap connections were given to rural households.

The Yogi Adityanath-led government aims to fulfill Prime Minister Narendra Modis ambitious plan of providing every rural household with a tap connection under the Jal Jeevan Mission.

Uttar Pradesh: Single window nod for ethanol plants

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The is working out a plan for single window clearance system for setting up ofethanolplants. Applications under this system will have to be cleared within 15 days, failing which it will be deemed as approved.

Directions have been issued for promotion of ethanol manufacturing in the state under the Centres Ethanol Blended Petro Programme.

The state government is also promoting manufacture of ethanol from sugarcane and Cereals. Under this, 54 projects of ethanol production from sugarcane have been taken up, along with seven projects for making ethanol from rice, wheat, barley, maize and sorghum.

UP to have driver training centres across state: Govt

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The Yogi Adityanath government is not only making arrangements for a comfortable journey for the passengers traveling by UP State Road Transport Corporation buses, but is also taking several measures for the safety of passengers.

In this regard, the government has decided to start driver training and counseling centres in all areas of the state. Under this, the first centre has already commenced in Gorakhpur and soon there is a plan to operate such centres in the entire state.

The objective of opening these centres is not only to motivate and train the drivers for safe driving but also to prepare them to face various challenges through counseling by assessing their mental state.

‘All parts of UP drawing investments uniformly’

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PWD ministerJitin Prasada said that under Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath’s guidance, all parts of the state, and not just Lucknow and Noida, are attracting investments.

He also suggested that everyone should support local artisans at the state and national levels which would eventually help them save the transportation cost. “Our aim aim is to seeUttar Pradeshas one of the most developed states in the next five years,” he said.
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Bareilly division tops state in implementation of schemes

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TheBareillydivision has topped the state in implementation of government schemes.

In the latest rankings released by the programme implementation department ofUttar Pradeshfor assessing development in divisions and districts, Bareilly division is followed by Varanasi, Lucknow, Meerut and Saharanpur.

The department has also ranked the districts of Bareilly, Badaun, Shahjahanpur and Pilibhit of Bareilly division as the best performers among districts. Bareilly CommissionerSanyukta Samaddarsaid that in line with the governments directions, public welfare schemes and projects have been implemented uniformly in all the districts of Bareilly division.

Under Pradhan Mantri JanArogya Yojana, about 18,34,436 golden cards have been made in Bareilly division.

Noida reports ‘poor’ AQI, Ghaziabad air among the country’s worst

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The air quality of Ghaziabad and Meerut on Saturday was the third worst in the country, recording an AQI of 312. So far in October, this is the first time that Ghaziabad’s AQI has breached the 300-mark.

Ghaziabad’s air quality index, however, was based on the reading of only two pollution monitoring stations out of four. The readings for Indirapuram and Vasundhara were not available. Loni station at 7.10pm recorded an AQI of 355 which comes under the ‘very poor’ category while Sanjay Nagar recorded an AQI of 260.

Amit Shah likely to lay foundation stone of Vindhya Corridor in Mirzapur

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Ahead of the assembly in Uttar Pradesh, Union Home minister Amit Shah is likely to lay the foundation of a development project in Mirzapur on August 1.

The Vindhya Corridor, a dream project of chief minister Yogi Adityanath, includes projects worth over Rs 300 crore. Besides giving a grand look to the temple, the project includes widening of roads to 50 feet around the temple to facilitate ‘darshan’ for the devotees.

After the construction of the corridor, the Ganga river flowing in the northern direction of the temple will be clearly seen along with the ‘darshan’ of Ma Vindhvasini Devi.

Govt to give grant for purchase of indigenous cows from other states

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In an effort to promote breeding of indigenous cows and raising the income of cow herders, the Yogi Adityanath government has decided to offer a grant of Rs 40,000 for the purchase of indigenous cows from other states under the Nand Baba Milk Mission covered under Mukhyamantri Pragatisheel Pashupalak Protsahan Yojana.

According to the governments scheme, cow herders who purchase Sahiwal, Tharparkar and Gir cows from other states will receive a subsidy on the amount spent on other items such as transportation, transit Insurance and animal insurance.

This subsidy will be given to cow herders on the purchase of a maximum of two indigenous breeds of cows.

Milk Commissioner and Mission Director Shashi Bhushan Lal Sushil said that under the Nand Baba Milk Mission, various issues related to transportation have been cleared for purchasing cows of indigenous breeds like Sahiwal from Punjab, Tharparkar from Rajasthan and Gir from Gujarat.

According to this, Sahiwal, Gir and Tharparkar cows will get Rs 10,000 for producing 8-12 kg of milk per day and Rs 15,000 for producing more than 12 kg. On the other hand, Rs 10,000 will be given to a Haryana cow for giving 6-10 kg of milk per day and Rs 15,000 for giving more than 10 kg of milk. Apart from this, Rs 10,000 will be given for producing 6-8 kg of milk per day for Gangatiri cows and Rs 15,000 for producing more than eight kg of milk.