UTTAR PRADESH

Bharat Dynamics Limited, the only DEFENCE public sector company in the country that manufactures missiles and underwater weapons for the armed forces, will be setting up a manufacturing unit inJhansiwith an of Rs 400 crore in phase-1. The company signed an MoU with the State Government through UP Expressway Industrial Development Authority for the investment in the states upcoming defence corridor.

Under the MoU, theBDLwill acquire 250 hectare land in Jhansi under a lease agreement for an initial period of 30 years, which will be extendable to up to 90 years.

The Jhansi node will be the companys sixth unit and the first one in north India. At present, BDL has four units, three of which are located in Telangana and one in Andhra Pradesh. It has also acquired land in Amravati in Maharashtra to set up its fifth unit.

As part of its ongoing pursuit to bring Bundelkhand region at par with the developed regions within the country, the Uttar Pradesh government has completed all the projects of three out of six departments under the third phase of the Bundelkhand package and is working to complete the projects of the remaining departments, earmarked for the year 2023-2024.

With the aim to bring Bundelkhand into the mainstream of development, the Yogi Adityanath government has approved Rs 225 crore to complete the projects of various departments. The government will also use a total of Rs 116.72 crore, including surplus of Rs 60.70 crore of the departments, for the development of Bundelkhand region.

Under the third phase of the Bundelkhand package, works of Rs 65 crore and Rs 25 crore have been completed in the Horticulture and Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture departments respectively. Projects of Irrigation-and-water”>Irrigation and water Resources department worth more than Rs 255 crore have also been completed.

Besides, two works worth more than Rs 55 crore of the Livestock department have been completed, while a project worth Rs 44 crore has been approved.

Furthermore, Rs 247 crore has already been spent on three projects related to Namami Gange and Rural Water Supply department, which would be completed with an additional Investment of Rs 16.5 crore. Besides, Rs 107 crore has been spent on projects related to milk development and a capacity expansion plan is also being prepared.

In all, Rs 917 crore was approved for various projects in the third phase, out of which Rs 756 crore has been spent while more than Rs 100 crore has been saved by the departments.

ThePanchayati Raj departmenthas issued the guidelines for theUttar Pradesh Matrubhumi Yojnaand sought wider publicity of the scheme from the department of information.

The scheme meant to encourageparticipatory mode of developmentat the village level was announced by chief ministerYogi Adityanathin September last year.

The scheme will make citizens the direct participants in the development works taken up at the gram panchayat level. The projects completed under the scheme will bear the name of the citizens who contribute to or collaborate with them.

According to the guidelines, the state will bear 40 per cent cost of the development project which is taken up at the village level with the participation of the people. The 60 per cent amount will be provided by any willing individual or even an NGO or a group of residents.

The government has created a corpus fund of around Rs 100 crore for the scheme. For its effective implementation, a governing council has been constituted.

Under the dynamic Leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the UPSIDA has been continuously working towards the 360-degree development of the state since inception.

Attracted by UPSIDAs policy of and convenience of obtaining all land related information on GIS portal of UPSIDA, AB Mauri had expressed its interest in setting up its project in Pilibhit and 257 acres of bulk industrial land was allotted to it for the production of yeast.

With the proposed Investment of Rs 1,100 crore for the project, the company is expected to create 5,000 plus EMPLOYMENT opportunities. The companys forte lies in industrial baking.

The AB Mauri group was formed in 2004 and has its presence across the globe in 32 countries and is operating 52 Plants. The company has a golden heritage of almost 150 years in manufacturing yeast and baking ingredients.

With this mega investment proposal from the company, the UPSIDA is spreading its presence globally. The UPSIDA has allotted land to AB Mauri in spite of the challenging second phase of COVID-19 pandemic and that too in record time.

In an attempt to boost the Food Processing sector in the state, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has launched Uttar Pradesh Food Processing Policy-2023 under which subsidies and other facilities are being given for setting up food processing industries.

The Uttar Pradesh government is providing additional facilities to encourage investors, including subsidy, interest subvention and transport subsidy. It has been divided into four parts, first is the grant of projects, second is interest subvention, the third is transport grant and the fourth is major incentives.

Under the policy, the Yogi government is giving a grant of 35 per cent of the project cost (on plant, machinery and technical civil work) or a maximum of Rs 5 crore on the establishment of new food processing units.

Similarly, 35 per cent of the project cost of a minimum Investment of Rs 25 crore (five units) or a maximum of Rs 10 crore by the agro-processing group, a grant of 35 per cent of the project cost or a maximum of Rs 5 crore for the development of a priority processing centre at the farm Gate, collection centre, cold storage, dry warehouse, mobile pre-cooling unit, reefer trucks, IQF facility distribution centers, and retail outlets under backward and forward linkage, is being given.

Not only this, a maximum of Rs 5 crore of the project cost is being given for agricultural promotion chain development study, 50 per cent of the project cost or a maximum of Rs 50 lakhs is being given on the construction of decentralised procurement storage and processing unit.

Under major incentives, exemption of 2 per cent fee on the declaration of non-agricultural use, 25 per cent on circle rate on exchange of government land, 50 per cent on change fee on land use conversion, 75 per cent on external development fee, is being given.

Taking a cue from the decision of Kanpur zone Police to set up 20-bed L1 and L2 hospitals inpolice linesin all ninedistrictsunder its jurisdiction, theUttar Pradeshpolice has issued directives for the establishment of similar facilities across the state.

Setting up of Covid-19 L1 and L2 hospitals in police lines, mooted by Kanpur police zone in nine districts and Kanpur Nagar commissionerate, is a model for others to emulate.

An 11-point strategy was prepared in coordination with the chief medical officer and chief medical superintendents of all nine districts. The zone has a force of about 25,000 policemen, including Home guards and helping staff.

Uttar Pradesh is turning into an export state of India as among the 43 Centers of Export Excellence selected by the Central government, 12 are from Uttar Pradesh.

The Central government, while releasing the countrys Policy-2023 recently, declared four more places, including three in Uttar Pradesh Varanasi, Moradabad and Mirzapur as Centres of Export Excellence, which speaks volumes about the development being witnessed in the state. Mirzapur is known for its handmade carpets, Moradabad for carpets and Varanasi for handloom and handicrafts.

The other nine cities of UP, which are already on this list, include Kekhra (for handloom), Malihabad (for Horticulture), Kanpur (for leather products), Agra (for leather products), Firozabad (for bangles-glass items), Saharanpur (for handicrafts), Bhadohi (for carpets) and Noida (for apparel products).

Being included in this list means that these cities will have priority access to the Export Promotion Fund and all these cities will be able to get common service provider benefits for fulfillment of exports under the Export Promotion Capital Goods (EPCG) scheme.

Uttar Pradesh, despite being a landlocked state, has seen a remarkable Growth in its exports in the last six years of the Yogi government going up from Rs 88,967 crore to Rs 1.57 lakh crore. As per the intention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is laying special emphasis on exporting traditional products of Uttar Pradesh along with ensuring Ease of Doing Business in the state. With the establishment of dry Ports and opening of a water route between Varanasi to Haldia, the State Government has opened new doors of possibilities for entrepreneurs investing in UP.

In this context, the government is focusing on taking the exports further from Rs 1.57 lakh crore to Rs 2 lakh crore at the earliest. Various facilities are being provided to investors as well as to entrepreneurs from the state.

The government has also introduced 25 sectoral policies to boost industrial growth in diverse sectors. A framework is being prepared to implement Investment proposals worth Rs 35 lakh crore received through the Global Investors Summit (UP GIS-2023).

The Yogi government has introduced the concept of dry ports through the UP Warehousing and Logistics Policy-2022 to facilitate transportation of export cargo to sea ports and many entrepreneurs are investing in it.

As Uttar Pradesh is a landlocked state with various export clusters, emphasis is being laid on development of dry ports in the state. An inland port is made under dry ports, where the customs formalities between the exporter and the importer are completed. After this the containers are sent to the port

The dry ports operating currently are Moradabad Rail Linked Joint Domestic and Exim Terminal, Rail Linked Private Freight Terminal and Inland Container Depot (ICD) in Kanpur, and ICD at Dadri Terminal.

Deputy CM Keshav PrasadMaurya virtually inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of 8,413 projects worth over Rs 10,000 crore to lend a boost to better road connectivity in the state.
The projects include 4,703 roads of 8,737 km across 353 assembly constituencies and 132 bridges in 79 assembly constituencies.

He said that work has been done to connect villages up to a distance of 5 km from the national highway, state highway, main district road and other district roads. He said that before 2017, the length of national highways in the state was 6,000 km, which has now increased to 12,000 km. Construction works have been done while removing all obstacles.