UTTAR PRADESH

According to latest data released by the Union Government on exports from various states, UP exported goods worth Rs 21,500.85 crore in April and May this year, up 152.67 per cent as compared to last year. During the corresponding period last year, goods worth Rs 8,511.34 crore were exported from Uttar Pradesh. Even during the pandemic, leather, textile and products were exported and there was huge demand for a wide range of products from the state in the overseas market.

To further promote exports, the State Government has decided to set up Overseas Trade Promotion and Facilitation Centres in all 75 districts of the state. The MSME department plans to set up a centralised facilitation centre for better coordination among these centres which will increase the worth of exports by at least Rs 400 crore and also provide EMPLOYMENT to about 4,000 people.

Uttar Pradesh ranks sixth among the major exporting states of India and the state ranks after Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. The state is ahead of several states, including among others Kerala, Karnataka, West Bengal, Orissa, Telangana, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

This year too, a lot of goods like carpets, rugs, textile fabric, oven fabric, man-made staple fabric, footwear, glassware, iron, steel, aluminum, rice, sugar, milk, flour, plastic products, silk, artificial flowers have been exported to different parts of the world. Nepal, Bangladesh and countries of South East Asia imported a large number of ODOP products from UP during the pandemic.

In fact, footwear and toy exports shot up from Rs 147.04 crore and Rs 26.19 crore in April-May last year to Rs 742.47 crore and Rs 120.83 crore respectively in 2021. Similarly, glassware exports increased from Rs 39.99 crore during the same period last year to Rs 310.77 crore this year. Furthermore, carpets and textile fabrics worth Rs 744.15 crore were exported this year as against Rs 247.63 crore the previous year. Similarly, the export of leather products also saw a steep upswing from Rs 79.21 crore last year to Rs 493.80 crore in 2021.

Big investors are coming forward to invest in the sector in the state. Besides, several Investment proposals for solar power projects are currently under the governments consideration. The government has set a target to achieve 10,700 MW capacity solar power generation by the year 2022, and is working on plans for setting up a solar park and an ultra mega solar park in the state.

The UP government formulated the solar energy policy soon after Yogi Adityanath took over as chief minister. Open access was given to companies for the establishment of solar parks and third party sale of solar energy. Under the incentive provisions of this policy, 100 per cent stamp duty exemption and 100 per cent exemption in electricity duty for 10 years is being given to investors through an online single window clearance system. This has led to 11 private companies in the solar Energy sector setting up their Plants in seven districts of the state, namely Bundelkhand, Banda, Chitrakoot, Hamirpur, Mahoba, Jalaun, Jhansi and Lalitpur to date. The solar power units are generating more than 550 MW of electricity daily.

Solar energy generation has also started in Chhibo village of Chitrakoot, with the commissioning of a 25 MW solar power plant by a private company. Besides, the REC Power Distribution Company is setting up a 50 MW solar power plant in Kanpur Dehat and a 75 MW solar plant in Jalaun.

The solar energy sector has been one of the priority areas of the Yogi government because of its multi-dimensional benefits, which has led to over two dozen solar power projects getting off the ground in UP with a total investment of Rs 8,905 crore so far. Besides, solar rooftops of 235 MW capacities have been installed in the state with the efforts of the government.

Furthermore, 19,579 solar pumps have been installed to benefit farmers. The installation of 1,80,000 solar power plants has transformed the picture of UPs villages. The rural folks that yearned for four hours of power supply during previous regimes due to frequent power outages are getting regular power supply with the massive investment in the solar energy sector during the Yogi regime.

The NationalChambal sanctuary in UP will soon have a dolphin sanctuary area too. A proposal for the same was sent to the by deputy conservator of forest (wildlife) Arushi Mishra of the sanctuary project. The dolphin sanctuary has been proposed in Sahson ofChambalsanctuary, which has a considerable presence of dolphins in a stretch of 20 kms. Dolphin count in the area is 50 to 80 at present.

The Gangetic dolphin is national aquatic animal of the country. Proposal for the dolphin sanctuary is meant for the conservation of dolphins, said the official. In the 2012 census of the Gangetic dolphin, 671 of them were found in the rivers in the state, out of which 78 were sighted in the Chambal. At present, Bah range of Chambal sanctuary has 24 dolphins while another 147 dolphins are in the Etawah range, taking the total to 171 dolphins in the Chambal river in UP.

The Chambal sanctuary is spread across 635 sq km in three states, MP,Rajasthanand UP. The sanctuary has 2,176 ghariyals, 878 crocodiles and several rare species of turtles. The centre has identified two sites for the dolphin sanctuary in UP. The presentation on the two sites, chosen in Varanasi and Chambal, have already been made to the central government.

UP produces 20% of Indias foodgrains. It is number one in wheat, number two in paddy and ranks fourth in pulses production. It also accounts for 36% of sugarcane, 34% potato and 30% vegetables grown in the country. But when it comes to number of Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture startups, the state needs to devise a proper policy framework.

On the sidelights of these facts that came to fore on the closing day of and UP government conclave on putting UP on the path of sustainable and equitable Growth, stakeholders in the sector deliberated on the need to enhance the knowledge of farmers through effective policy changes and interactions so that they open up to ideas that reduce input cost, increase return of Money invested and simplifies their work.

As a result, Uttar Pradesh is emerging fast as a major centre of mobile phone manufacturing in the country with several companies like Oppo, Vivo, Samsung, Lava and Formi all set to set up their units in the state.

An official spokesman of the government said here on Saturday that the day was not far away when UP would become the biggest hub of mobile phone manufacturing with both domestic and foreign companies having their factories and billions of people talking on mobile handsets made in UP.

According to officials of these mobile phone manufacturing giants, Uttar Pradesh has made remarkable progress under the Digital India campaign in mobile phone manufacturing. Big companies have made huge investments in the state due to the -friendly policies of the UP government in the field of electronic manufacturing.

Senior UP minister and government spokesman Sidharth Nath Singh said that the picture was entirely different four years ago, when no one could have even imagined setting up a factory to make mobile handsets in the state.

It is worth mentioning here that in the year 2014, only six crore mobile handsets were manufactured in the country, which increased to 11 crore in the year 2015-16 and 17.5 crore in 2016-17.

Now, Vivos factory coming up in the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority area is expected to start producing 12 crore mobile handsets alone soon. Vivo Mobile Pvt Ltd is setting up a factory to manufacture mobile handsets with an investment of Rs 7,000 crore in Sector 24 of YEIDA. Six crore mobile sets will be made in the first phase of this factory being set up on 169 acres of land. In the second phase, the capacity of this factory will be increased in order to produce 12 crore mobile handsets every year. Vivos factory in YEIDA will provide EMPLOYMENT to 60,000 people.

As for the government, it would get revenue in the form of goods and Services tax (GST) from every mobile made by Vivo in its UP unit, the spokesman said.

Besides Vivo, China’s big company Oppo Mobile India Private Limited is setting up its factory in Greater Noida at the cost of Rs 2,000 crore to manufacture smartphones. Similarly, Holitech India Private Ltd is setting up a mobile phone display unit in Greater Noida itself. Land has been allotted for the mobile phone display unit to be set up with an investment of Rs 1,772 crore. Lava Electronics has established its factory in Noida and is manufacturing mobile handsets there. Samsung set up its factory for mobile phone manufacturing in Noida last year.

The Mathrubhumi Yojana is currently being implemented in rural areas and the government will soon implement it in urban areas as well, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath disclosed on Friday.

Inaugurating the Uttar Pradesh Mathrubhumi Yojana, the chief minister said, The mother and motherland are greater than heaven. There can be no comparison between them. Therefore, everyone should be given a chance to participate in the Mathrubhumi Yojana. Our government has currently implemented this scheme in rural areas. We will implement the Mathrubhumi Yojana in urban areas also.

This will serve two purposes: firstly, individuals will be able to reconnect with their roots, and secondly, they will be able to contribute towards their motherland, he added.

On this occasion, the chief minister distributed Awards to 370 outstanding gram panchayats under the Mukhyamantri Panchayat Protsahan Puraskar Yojana. Additionally, under the Rashtriya https://exam.pscnotes.com/gram-swaraj-abhiyan”>Gram Swaraj Abhiyan, 3,145 gram panchayat secretaries were provided with laptops.

The chief minister said, The Panchayati Raj department should develop a mechanism through which the person contributing Money can be given an account of his every penny. Under the UP Mathrubhumi Yojana, 60 per cent of the funds will be invested by individuals willing to contribute towards their motherland, while 40 per cent of the funds will be provided by the State Government.

The chief minister said that because people were Gods greatest creation, they had a strong sense of respect for their motherland. Each person has a bond with his or her motherland. We must encourage this bond and instill faith in their hearts. Previously, people had in mind that there was misappropriation of funds in the state governments budget so if we send money, it will also be misused, he said.

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.