UTTAR PRADESH

In a remarkable achievement for the Uttar Pradesh Government, the state has secured the top position nationwide in effectively implementing eight welfare schemes for the underprivileged and the needy. This achievement also highlights Chief Minister Yogi Adityanaths sensitivity towards common people.

The eight schemes include Prime Minister SVANidhi Yojana among others, which seeks to uplift street vendors by providing them interest free loans for running their businesses.

Uttar Pradesh tops in the country by providing the benefits of the scheme to maximum number of street vendors. Madhya Pradesh ranks second and third in taking the welfare scheme to the people.
An official spokesman of the government said that the chief ministers regular monitoring and reviewing of implementation of a variety of central governments schemes in the state had put Uttar Pradesh at the forefront in delivering its benefits to people.

So far, the benefit of eight central schemes has been given to 20,74,450 beneficiaries in the state. At the same time, Uttar Pradesh is also on top in the country in terms of digital transactions done by vendors. At present there are 4,90,240 digitally active vendors in the state, who have carried out digital transactions of Rs 63,78,24,790 so far. Maximum digital vendors are active in Varanasi, Firozabad, Prayagraj, Jhansi and Lucknow.

In a bid to help farmers maintain their fields and crops, agricultural committees and self-help groups inUttar Pradeshwill be provided drones on 40 percent subsidy.

In the first phase, farmers’ group, and Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture graduates will be eligible for subsidies.

According to officials, a drone is capable of carrying 10-12 kg of nano (liquid) urea or pesticide and can spray the fertilizer on sugarcane crops across eight bighas of land in 10 minutes.
The drones will reduce both the cost of production of the crops and time as well.
Last year, farmers were witness to the first-of-its-kind trial of nano urea by the sugarcane department in Bijnor’s Mandawali village.

Uttar Pradesh government is committed to timely selection of teachers for basic, secondary and higher educational institutes and an integrated service selection commission will soon be set up for the purpose, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Tuesday. While reviewing the teacher recruitment process in educational institutions in the state, Adityanath also gave necessary guidelines regarding the formation of ‘Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission’ as an integrated commission.

Different authorities, boards and commissions operate for the selection of qualified teachers in basic, secondary, higher and technical educational institutions of the state.

Apart from the Examination Regulatory Authority, Secondary Education Service Selection Commission and Higher Education Service Selection Commission, selection is also done through Uttar Pradesh Commission.

The commission will prove to be useful in ensuring timely selection of teachers, better utilization of human Resources and financial discipline.

Complying with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanaths instructions, the Home department has decided to prepare a training programme/manual for regulation, manufacturing and manpower training on the use of drones.

A high-level committee has been set up for this. It is chaired by Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi and has top officials of Revenue, , Technical Education, Micro, Small and Medium enterprises, Civil Aviation departments and UP Director General of Police and Director General of Police (Logistics).

Besides, technical experts from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow have been also included in the committee.

To create jobs for people fromUttar Pradesh, the has decided to provide subsidy to industries on the basis of the EMPLOYMENT they generate.
Chief MinisterYogi Adityanathhas asked officials to visit industries regularly to ensure they are meeting the criteria for providing local employment.

The policy also has the provision for a booster subsidy on employment of 75% Women, besides meeting the minimum requirement.

In addition to the subsidy laid out in the policy, large and mega industries would get an additional subsidy of 2% each, while super mega and ultra mega industries will get booster subsidies of 4% each if they employ at least 75% women in their work force. This subsidy may also be extended to industries if they employ 2-3 times as much work force as has been assigned to their category.

On December 13, Modi will be inaugurating his dream project, Shri Kashi Vishwanath Dham, following which each house in Varanasi will receive prasad from the temple as also a book on the project. Also, a programme, Bhavya Kashi Divya Kashi, will be organised on both days of his visit.

Significantly, during the 2017 , Modi had campaigned in Varanasi for three days and attended different programmes. This time too, he will be taking part in more than a dozen events during his visit.

The fertiliser plant will ensure large-scale supply of neem-coated urea in eastern Uttar Pradesh as well as in adjoining states and even in Nepal. The trial production in the plant will begin on November 30.

With an aim to makeUttar Pradesha USD 1 trillion economy and work towards a result-oriented implementation of policies and schemes, the state cabinet on Tuesday gave its approval to restructuring the existing State on the lines of NITI Aayog.

The new body, to be called State Transformation Commission (STC), will be headed by the chief minister and will work by collaborating with the government on policies, innovations and providing suggestions.

The CM will be the chairperson of the STC which will also have as its members the two deputy CMs and ministers of finance, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, social welfare, Panchayati Raj, industrial development, jal sShakti, urban development and planning. The deputy chairperson will be a public administrator, economist or someone linked with the field, to be nominated by the CM.

At least 42,000 farmers in Muzaffarnagar switched to sugarcane farming in the last five years after the introduction of a new crop variety with a better yield. With the new entrants, the cultivation area of the crop and sugarcane production has also seen a considerable jump.

Now, two lakh farmers are growing cane in comparison to 1.6 lakh in 2015, he said.
According to officials, in the crushing year 2016-17, the recorded sugarcane growing area stood at 1,26,872 hectare which has now reached 1,68,015 hectare in 2021-22.
The cultivation area of sugarcane in the district has increased by 42,596 hectares during the last five crushing years.

As many as eight sugar mills in the district have started preparation for crushing for the 2021-22 season.

The sugarcane farmers had been paid Rs 2,200 crore in 2015-16 by these mills. Now, the last payment was 3,200 crore in 2020-21. The payment of the sugarcane has increased Rs 1,000 crore in five years, the cane officer said.

The districts earmarked for setting up and development of these parks include Lucknow, Unnao, Amethi, Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Auraiya, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Noida, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Azamgarh, Ambedkarnagar, Gorakhpur and Prayagraj.

The project will be developed on a PPP model. The purpose of this exercise is to promote the industries of the state and increase economic activities through the expressway. Now the movement of goods from Western UP to Central UP, Purvanchal and Bundelkhand is going to be faster and easier. There is also a plan to set up a private industrial park on the land of Auto Tractor Limited in Pratapgarh as its plant shut down operations in 1972.

Uttar PradeshJal Shakti ministerSwatantra Dev Singhstarted the One tap-One Tree scheme by planting a sapling at his official residence in Lucknow.

The scheme will continue till July 7. The Namani Gange and Rural Water Supply department will provide a free sapling to those getting a new tap connection.

The minister gave saplings as gifts to Women members of the Jal Samitis and others who got a new tap connection to mark the start of one-tap-one-tree campaign.

Between July 1 and July 7, over 5 lakh saplings will be distributed under the campaign. The inaugural event was planned for Udaypur village in Mohanlalganj but due to heavy rains the same was conducted at the residence of the minister.