UTTAR PRADESH

Uttar Pradesh has emerged as the new hub in India with some of the biggest businessmen, industrialists and entrepreneurs showing their interest in investing in the state.

In pursuit of creating an investor-friendly Environment, Uttar Pradesh has climbed up to the second rank in Ease of Doing Business (EODB) index. The State Government has also launched a single-window system named Nivesh Mitra Portal where there are over 70 Services of about 20 departments. Moreover, the state does not have any dearth of Resources or labour. With the kind of Population Uttar Pradesh has, the investors already have a gigantic consumer base to target.

The state government has been successful in facilitating investment in DEFENCE, Health, MSME, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, handloom, power and other sectors. Besides, the policy of the government has been to pursue eco-friendly solar power. Also, Uttar Pradesh has been successful in implementing 186 out of 187 reforms suggested under BRAP 19 (Business Reform Action Plan) by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) of the Central government.

Many major investment plans have also come to the state government for the next few years. The defence manufacturing corridor has an investment potential of Rs 50,000 crore. New and improved MSME policies are promoting industrial development at all levels across UP.

Defence, aerospace, Warehousing, data centre, electric vehicles and pharma are fast emerging as new investment sectors in Uttar Pradesh. Similarly, traditional sectors like electronics, information technology (IT), Food Processing, Dairy, textiles, tourism and film are also attracting investment. There is also investment potential in Solar Energy, bio-fuels and civil aviation. Most economists believe that the way to make India a five trillion dollar economy passes through Uttar Pradesh.

The Uttar Pradesh government plans to verify the funding sources of over 1,500 unaided madrasas that have declared their sole source of earning as zakat, donations which Muslims make for charitable causes as a religious obligation.

The decision follows a survey of the states 2,000 aided and 15,000 unaided madrasas between August and October . The objective is to verify their land records, sources of earning, classroom and teachers salaries among other expenses.

Minister of State for Minority Welfare Danish Azad Ansari said some madrasas in UP were unregistered and unaffiliated to any recognised school Education board or university.

Uttar Pradeshreached a new milestone in the Covid battle on Monday as the number of administered vaccine doses crossed the 15-crore mark in the state. This figure is over 33% more than the total number of doses administered in Maharashtra, the next contender state.

In terms of people, 10.62 crore individuals are partially vaccinated in the state, while 4.37 crore have taken both the doses. Considering that the total number of eligible persons in UP is 15.04 crore, this translates to over 29% of the Population being fully vaccinated and 71% just taking one vaccine dose. Lauding the achievement, senior Health officials directed the staff to sustain the pace till all eligible persons are vaccinated and appealed to people to come and take their due vaccine in individual and social interest.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that every district in the state will set up acyber Police stationand directed the officials concerned to submit a detailed action plan at the earliest.

Conducting a review of the Home department, the CM also assessed the efforts being made to improve policing, Women safety and Services of the fire department.

Similarly, several are being developed with the aim to increase air connectivity. An international airport is being constructed in Kushinagar which will facilitate the movement of Buddhist followers living in the country and abroad. DEFENCE industrial corridors are being developed in the state at Aligarh, Agra, Lucknow, Jhansi, Chitrakoot and Kanpur, the states top official said.

The Singaporean high commissioner said that the trade relations between Singapore and India were very strong and there was a favourable Environment for Investment in UP and the Logistics points had been developed in a very systematic manner.

It being the most religious place, a large number of devotees from all over the country and abroad come to Uttar Pradesh. Singapore investors are willing to invest in setting up the Bundelkhand defence Industrial corridor, MSME, logistics, integrated Township, and data centre in Uttar Pradesh. Apart from this, investors want to invest in the area of skill centres in Varanasi, Wong said.

Accounting for 17% share in India’s total production,Uttar Pradeshcontinues to be the largestmilkproducing state of the country. Rajasthan, with 11.5% share and Andhra Pradesh, with 9% share, are at number two and three respectively.

The production of milk in UP rose from 277 lakh metric tonnes in 2016-17 to 318 lakh metric tonnes in 2019-20, indicating an increase of 41 lakh during the period.

According to statistics put out by the , UP has produced 1,242 lakh metric tonnes of milk in the past four years. A state government spokesperson said that six big companies, including Amul, have set up their Dairy Plants in UP at a cost of Rs 172 crore in the past four years while work is underway on establishing seven others. Besides, 15 investors have offered to set up their units in the state.

The UP government is also constructing cow protection centres and a Govansh Vanya Vihar to enhance milk production in the state. The construction of 118 such centres has already been completed.

Indian Institute of Technology of Kanpur has launched the first technology innovation hub to find cybersecurity solutions for anti-drones technologies, intrusion detection systems, block-chain and cyber-physical systems.

Highlights:

As many as 13 start-ups & 25 research and development principal investigators were selected after a rigorous application process. The presence of cutting-edge technology in cybersecurity is accompanied by an increasing need to protect digital assets & deploy solutions for the common public, government, and .

C3i of IIT Kanpur hub will focus on safeguarding cyberspace including critical Infrastructure. The government is promoting Make-in India cybersecurity solutions to counter rising threats from neighbouring countries, particularly China.

The Yogi Adityanath government has implemented the Legal Aid DEFENCE Counsel System (LADCS), under the Uttar Pradesh State Legal Services Authority, for a period of two years to provide free legal assistance to the people and resolve disputes among them by working out a compromise formula.

The objective of the government behind implementing LADCS is to strengthen court-based legal services in order to provide effective and competent legal assistance to the weak and vulnerable sections of Society.

He said LADCS would provide qualitative and competent legal services to eligible individuals in criminal cases. This could benefit members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and those who have been affected by illegal acts of individuals could directly benefit from it.

LADCS will benefit numerous individuals including Women, daughters, and children who are victims in the state, individuals affected by disabilities such as blindness, leprosy, deafness, mental weakness, and nomadic individuals, industrial workers, juvenile delinquents and persons detained in custody.

TheUttar Pradeshgovernment has announced that it will develop a new mobile application for the Madrasa Board for TEACHING and other activities related to the madrasas in the state.

Over 2.5 lakh students of the UP Madrasa Board will now study through the mobile application from the new session.

The Board will make all possible efforts and arrangements so that students can do their studies on the mobile app from the new session.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday credited farmers hard work for the emergence of Uttar Pradesh as an economic superpower in the country and said in the last nine years, the nation had seen farmers and labourers becoming the agenda of a government for the first time.

Presiding over a programme for the payment of 14th installment of the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana to the farmers, the chief minister said, A total of 2.63 crore farmers have been benefitted by the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana in the state and a sum of Rs 55,800 crore has been transferred to the bank accounts of the farmers in Uttar Pradesh so far.

While highlighting the importance of the event, Chief Minister Yogi asserted, This mega campaign is a grand campaign to pay respect to the farmers. All the organisations associated with this campaign will complete it on a large-scale. This will solve the complaints coming from the farmers and I hope that after June 10, no farmer of UP will complain of being denied the benefits of this scheme.