UTTAR PRADESH

In order to augment supply of Oxygen in the state, the excise and sugar and sugarcane development departments are set to startinstallationofoxygen generators. The machines will be airlifted byAir Indiaflights and delivered to thehospitals.

About 30 units of the excise department and 45 sugar mills will ensure that in every district, there is at least one community Health centre or district hospital with 35-45 beds which will have full-time oxygen supply through oxygen generators.

An Investment of Rs 50-60 lakh is being made per hospital for the installation of the oxygen Generator.

In order to make Education accessible to everyone in Uttar Pradesh, as well as to improve its quality and link it with EMPLOYMENT, the Yogi Adityanath government will spend more than Rs 750 crore on basic, secondary and higher education in the next three months.

The government has prepared an action plan in this regard.

This amount will be spent on both new and already existing programmes in each of these three departments. Many of these programmes are sponsored by the Centre, and funds will be spent on them after the Central government releases the budget installment and the gives its Consent.

As per the information received, the Basic Education department has prepared an action plan for budget expenditure of Rs 121 crore on various schemes, while the Higher Education department has presented an action plan for spending more than Rs 20 crore. On the other hand, the Secondary Education department has estimated an expenditure of more than Rs 600 crore on the basis of the budget.

It may be mentioned that in his second term, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has given priority to the process of setting targets and achieving them within a given timeframe. With the beginning of the new financial year, once again all the departments have been instructed to work on a three-month action plan.

The Secondary Education department will receive a budget of Rs 390 crore under the PM School for Rising India (PM SHRI) scheme. This is a centrally sponsored scheme and the amount will be spent through the approved action plan and allocated budget by the Ministry of School Education and Literacy.

Apart from this, a budget of Rs 5 crore has been allocated to the department to reimburse the tuition fees of the second daughter of a parent studying in self-financed schools. The department will allocate Rs 1.39 crore for April on the basis of information provided by the districts after approval of the funds by the government.

There is a budgetary provision of Rs 237 crore for children and adolescents libraries and digital Infrastructure, on which the department has said that the first installment of the Centre is likely to be received in June 2023, after which the physical and financial targets of the scheme will be achieved with the approval of the government.

Through the skill hub, the government will provide Vocational Education to school drop-outs and conduct short-term certification courses for skill training after school and on weekly holidays. On the other hand, an amount of Rs 2 crore will be spent on quality promotion of higher education.

A total of Rs 10 crore will be spent on Chief Minister’s Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme, Rs 5 crore on the digital library at the ward level and Rs 1 crore will be spent on a skill hub to provide employment-oriented education. Overall, the Higher Education department will spend Rs 20.1 crore in the next three months.

Ahead of the Global Investors’ Summit in Lucknow from February 10 to 12, proposals worth Rs 26,000 crore were received from investors at an investors’ summit inUnnaoon Monday. Industrial development ministerNand Gopal Nandi, MSME ministerRakesh Sachanand state transport ministerDayashankar Singhwere present at the meeting attended by 200 investors.

In the journey from 2017 to 2022,Uttar Pradeshhas become ‘Uttam Pradesh’. Now, it is on its way to become the ‘Sarvottam Pradesh’ (Best State). Unnao has received proposals for investment of Rs 26,000 crore against the target of Rs 3,000 crore.

In recognition of the achievements of Uttar Pradesh in digitalisation and e-Governance at the national level, the state has received five prestigious Awards in different areas of e-governanceOf these, two have been bagged by the Higher Education Department.

These awards will be conferred at a function in MNNIT, Prayagraj on January 23.

The prestigious CSI SIG E-governance awards are in recognition of the endeavours of Yogi Adityanath government in pursuit of transparent, efficient and people-friendly governance.

The UP-Darpan Dashboard for the chief minister has been selected for the Award of Excellence. It is the portal to facilitate quick and efficient redressal of citizens complaints. It is being widely used by people and has provided relief to thousands of complainants.

The Higher Education Department has got the CSI SIG eGovernance Award 2021 in recognition of its commendable works in two endeavors – Digital Library Project and Online NOC and Affiliations System for opening the new college/course.

The headed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had launched the Digital Library in pursuit of promoting digital education. On this, as many as 76,709 e-contents have so far been uploaded. The Digital Library has registered more than 7.07 lakh hits. According to the department, about 5,500 contents are under scrutiny/approval process at the moment.

Ahead of UP Global Investors’ Summit, the UP State Industrial Development Authority (UPSIDA) has reportedly receivedinvestment proposalsworth over Rs 1 lakh crore for setting up industrial units in various districts of the state.

Out of these, MoUs have been signed for projects worth Rs 83,000 crore. The on Thursday increased the target of Investment through the GIS from Rs 10 lakh crore to Rs 17 lakh crore. To meet this goal, investment targets for all departments have also been revised. For UPSIDA, this amount has been revised from Rs 70,000 crore to Rs 1 lakh crore.

In a first, the Yogi government has decided to rate the Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) – the organizations of farmer-producers that provide technical and Marketing support to small farmers – on the basis of their performance and facilitate them accordingly.

The FPOs would be rated on a 15-point scale, including the number of farmers, number of Women members in the organization, their annual turnover, whether the share shoulders were paid dividends, whether any agro-processing unit was set up by the organization and the extent to which the products were branded and sold in the open market.

The Kashi Vishwanath Dham (corridor) project is nearing completion and the task of designing and finetuning the model for its smooth operations, revenue generation and upkeep has been entrusted to the London-headquartered MNC Ernst &Young, counted among the Big Four firms.

The firm will also develop IT solutions and Software for crowd management in the premises.

Ernst & Young has been roped in to design the model for revenue generation to assist the operations and maintenance of all the establishments in the corridor except Kashi Vishwanath temple which is looked after by the KV Temple Trust.

Once the project is inaugurated and thrown open to public, it would require revenue for daily operations and maintenance.

In a landmark decision, the state cabinet on Tuesday approved the first tiger reserve of Bundelkhand to promote tiger conservation in the state.
At a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the cabinet approved to notify Ranipur Tiger Reserve, under section 38(v) of the Wildlife protection act 1972, spanning across 52,989.863 hectares (around 530 sqkm) including 29,958.863 hectares of buffer area and 23,031.00 hectares of core area which was already notified as Ranipur wildlife sanctuary in Chitrakoot.

This will be UP’s fourth tiger reserve after Dudhwa in Lakhimpur, Pilibhit reserve in Pilibhit and Amangarh in Bijnor. The cabinet also decided to establish Ranipur Tiger Conservation Foundation along with sanctioning of requisite posts.

The Ranipur Tiger Reserve area covered by Northern Tropical Dry Deciduous Forests is Home to megafauna comprising tigers, leopards, bears, spotted deers, sambhar, chinkaras and diverse avifauna, reptilians and other mammals.
The establishment of Ranipur reserve will be a turning point for the conservation of wildlife in Bundelkhand along with opening of eco tourism potential of the area creating immense EMPLOYMENT opportunities.

The approval for the reserve from the (NTCA) had come long back, but it was kept waiting for one or the other reason, said sources in the forest department.

As a festival bonus toMNREGAemployees in the state, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday announced an increase in their honorarium from October. The government has also announced a 180 day long maternity leave, along with 24 days of casual leave and 12 days of medical leave for workers.

Speaking at the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural EMPLOYMENT Guarantee programme on Monday, the CM said that the government would soon be bringing out an HR policy, on the lines of theUttar PradeshState Rural Livelihood Mission, which would guarantee leaves etc to the employees.

The increase includes Rs 10,000 per month to MGNREGS workers, Rs 10,000 to gram sewaks, Rs 15,656 to technical assistants, Rs 15,156 to computer operators, Rs 34,140 to additional program officers, Rs 15,156 to accounts assistants, Rs 18,320 to operation assistants, Rs 18,320 to helpline executives, Rs 9,000 to class IV worker, Rs 14,100 to block coordinator and Rs 19,900 to district social audit coordinators.

In addition to this, the CM said that the government is working towards ensuring 100 days of employment under MNREGS to at least 20 lakh families on projects worth Rs 13,000 crore. The Consent of the deputy commissioner of MNREGS has been made necessary before terminating the Services of rozgar sewaks.

The CM added that in 2020-21, 1.16 crore jobs were generated with 39.46 crore of mandays. Under MNREGS, 103.27 crore mandays of work was generated over the past four years. In 2020-21, 94.37 lakh families got jobs in UP, which is the most in the country while over four years, 246.56 lakh families were given employment.