UTTAR PRADESH

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.

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.