Students of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University (RMLAU), Ayodhya will soon get an opportunity to learn and assist the leading scientists of the country at CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR).
IITR, in return, will get bright students from RMLAU as project assistants and for other research-related work.
An MoU for an academic collaboration between the two institutes was signed during the one week one lab event.
Having succeeded in presenting the progressive transformation of Uttar Pradesh before investors in the United States and Canada ahead of the Global Investors Summit (GIS), Team Yogi has not only received several proposals (letters of intent) in the state but has also signed MoUs worth Rs 19,265 crore.
The maximum investment in the MoUs signed so far is going to be in the Logistics, DEFENCE and aerospace sectors. Mobility Infrastructure Group will invest Rs 8,200 crore in this sector within the state. With this, about 100 EMPLOYMENT opportunities will be generated in the state. At the same time, QSTC Inc will also invest Rs 8200 crore in defence and aerospace. It will create about 200 employment opportunities.
MoUs worth Rs 2,055 crore were signed between the State Government and healthcare sector companies. Under this, My Health Center and ZMQ Companies will invest Rs 2,050 crore and Rs 5 crore, respectively, creating about 560 employment opportunities.
According to the Ease of Living Index, 14 UP cities have been considered better in terms of living in the country. While Lucknow has been ranked the best place for living in the state, Varanasi is the second. Among small cities, Jhansi has been considered to be the best. Among all states, Lucknow has been ranked 26th among big cities, followed by Varanasi. Jhansi has ranked 34th among smaller cities.
He said that the One District-One Product scheme had contributed to improving the rural economy and increasing the per capita rural domestic product. development, focus on law and order, construction of greenfield townships, Noida Film City, special initiatives for tourism, and development of expressways and Airports made life easier for people in the state, he added.
The Banking correspondent sakhi programme, under which the government has trained rural Women in banking processes and is making banking facilities available at the doorsteps of rural citizens in the state is also being held as a major achievement of the government in ease of living.
During the state-level bankers committee meeting held on Wednesday, chief secretaryDS Mishrasaid that the credit-deposit ration should be increased from the current 40% to 60% inMadhyanchal, Purvanchal and Bundelkhand in the next four months.
Along with this, he said, there is a need to focus on aspirational districts, blocks and cities and added that districts which are lagging in crop Insurance along with other kinds of insurance must be pulled ahead. Loan melas should be organised in districts so that maximum number of people can take advantage of schemes, he said.
During the meeting it was informed that in the quarter ended September, the total deposits in the state were Rs 14.31 lakh crore against Rs 13.13 lakh crore in September 2021. The advance in September 2022 was 7.51 lakh crore, which is Rs 84,449 crore more than last year. The Banking business in the current financial year saw an increase of Rs 62,166 crore, taking the business to Rs 21.90 lakh crore this year.
In the current financial year, UP saw an improvement in banking with appointment of 10,034 bank mitra and 7,664 bank sakhis and addition of 207 ATMs. Against a target of loans of Rs 2,94,988 crore in this financial year, loans of Rs 1,42,537 crore or 48% have been disbursed till September 2022.
Report finds that, in Uttar Pradesh, only 1.5% Women aged between 30 and 49 years have undergone screening test for cervical cancer in life.
Many Health indicators have improved in the state.
Less domestic violence with women was reported.
Sex ratio has also improved.
Use of family planning methods and institutional delivery has increased.
Diarrhoea infection among kids has decreased.
As per NFHS-5, 1.1 % women in urban areas and 1.7 % women in rural areas underwent screening. Thus, rural women scored better with respect to awareness and screening for cervical cancer.
Number of women (aged 30-49 years) who had undergone breast examination for cancer was just 0.4%, in rural as well as urban areas surveyed.
Number of women, who undergone for oral cavity examination for cancer was only 0.6% in rural as well as urban areas.
There is no denying the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the states economy as UPs Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) has shrunk by 5.9 per cent in 2020-2021. But the worrying sign is that the states economy grew at less than 5 per cent in the last four-and-half-year tenure of the Yogi Adityanath regime. The revised data released for 2018-19 (revised provisional), 2019-20 (revised quick) and 2020-21 (revised advance) also indicate that the economy of Uttar Pradesh grew at a lesser rate than expected.
The revised estimates of the states income that the State Planning Institute (Economics and Statistics Division) released last week show a systemic decline in the Health of the economy. The GSDP Growth in 2017-18 was 4.9 per cent. However in 2018-19 and 2019-20 fiscals, it remained at about 4.3 per cent only. As per these estimates, the rate of economic growth was less than 5 per cent during 2017-20 and -5.9 per cent in the COVID-19 affected 2020-21.
The advance estimates for 2020-21 (released in March 2021) indicated a contraction of about 6.4 per cent in the GSDP. The UP government can take solace because the national economy too contracted by 7.3 per cent in the 2020-21 fiscal, as per GDP statistics released by National Statistical Office (NSO) of the Union Government on May 31, 2021.
The worrisome fact is that sectors like manufacturing registered negative rates of growth over the last four years and its share in GSDP is also declining and is less than 15 per cent. For a state which is yearning for industrialisation, this is not a good sign. On the contrary, the performance of the Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture sector has been encouraging as even during the pandemic-affected 2020-21, the sector showed a positive growth of 2.7 per cent. Services, or tertiary, sector has done well except in 2020-21 wherein it shrunk to 7.9 per cent.
The data shows that UPs GSDP (at current prices) is estimated to have reached Rs 15.82 lakh crore in 2018-19, Rs 17.25 lakh crore in 2019-20, and Rs 17.39 lakh crore in 2020-21. The had recently claimed that the GSDP had peaked from Rs 17.91 lakh crore to Rs 19.40 lakh crore (revised estimates) on March 31, 2021.
The above facts should be a sobering reminder to the state government that much needs to be done to put Uttar Pradesh on the fast trajectory of growth. If it really wants to become a one-trillion-dollar economy, the state has to come up with a clear roadmap. The poor GSDP does not enthuse confidence that the state will be able to achieve the target within the stipulated timeline and it would be better that the state government goes back to the drawing board and revises its strategy.
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.
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.
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.
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.