UTTAR PRADESH

In his ongoing attempt to ensure EMPLOYMENT to the youth of Uttar Pradesh in industrial units being set up in different sectors in the state, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced conditional subsidies for the investors.

The government has divided the into four categories, keeping in view the increase in industrial activities in UP, and has told the investors that they would get subsidies on various items if they provided employment to the youth as per their merits and the industry standards.

The Yogi government has recently brought a new Industrial Investment and Employment Promotion Policy 2022 to provide new opportunities for investment and employment in the state. Under the new policy, the industry has been divided into four categories namely, large, mega, super mega and ultra mega, to increase investment in the state.

Under this, a large industry will have to give employment to at least 300 youths of UP every year whereas mega industry will have to provide job opportunities to at least 600 youths every year. Similarly, super mega and ultra mega industries will have to provide employment to at least 1,500 youths each every year.

The chief minister said that if an industry provided employment to 75 per cent Women in its staff in addition to meeting the minimum requirement of providing jobs, it would get a booster subsidy under different heads according to different categories of the industry.

Under the scheme, mega, super mega, and ultra mega industries will get booster subsidies of 2 per cent and 4 per cent each on provision of employment to 75 per cent women along with ensuring minimum employment as well as more than double and three times of the minimum employment, respectively.

After implementing the new policy, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath instructed the higher officials to give the benefit of subsidy to the investors in due time so that industries could be set up on a large scale in the state at the earliest.

To ensure overall development of Ayodhya, about Rs 30,000 crore is going to be infused for various projects. While theYogi Adityanathgovernment will pool in 60% of the funds the remaining will be provided by agencies under the central government.

The maximum amount is going to be spent on improving the road connectivity and boosting , saidVishal Singh, vice chairman of Ayodhya development authority and municipal commissioner. By 2024, Ayodhya is set to get on the global map as Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Corridor is expected to get ready by then along with the local airport.

The NHAI has also accepted majority of the proposals forwarded by the State Government pertaining to widening of the existing national highways and building new roads.An amount of Rs 6,657 crore is being utilized for widening of theChaurasi Kosiparikrama marg. Similarly, Rs 5,924 crore is going to be used for Ayodhya bypass road.

Uttar Pradesh has distributed around 98.53 lakh MT of free food grains under PMGKAY and 23.39 lakh MT of free ration has been distributed separately by the government, which is over and above the ration being distributed under PMGKAY. The total distribution amounts to around 1.22 crore MT.

In order to help the migrant workers, poor and underprivileged sections of Society to tide over hardships caused by the pandemic, the has been providing free 5 kg food grains to over 15 crore beneficiaries of the state. Under the scheme, each beneficiary receives 3 kg wheat and 2 kg rice. As per the Central government directives, the distribution was carried out entirely through PoS devices with biometric Aadhaar and dealer authentication in a transparent manner.

During 2020, of the total allocation of 58.02 lakh MT food grains under PMGKAY-2020 (April-November 2020), approximately 56.21 lakh MT food grains (i.e. around 96.87 per cent) were distributed in the state. In 2021 (PMGKAY-III), out of a total allocation of around 14.71 lakh MT food grains (May -June 2021) approximately 14,13,984.816 MT (i.e. around 96.07 per cent) food grains have been distributed by the state government.

While during PMGKAY-IV so far, against the allocation of 29,43,719.040 MT of grains around 28,18,527.091 MT has been given which is around 95.75 per cent. The distribution will continue till November.

Along with PMGKAY, the UP government is also distributing free ration and giving double relief to the people. The distribution by the state continued from April to June in 2020, while in 2021, the state government made the distribution for the months of June, July, and August. Uttar Pradesh has more than 1,30,07,969 beneficiaries under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana and over 13,41,77, 983 under priority household cardholders. The state has over 80,000 fair-price shops.

The distribution for October under PMGKAY commenced on October 19 and till October 26 , more than 2.88 crore ration cards received 6,76,398.649 MT of ration which comes around 80.04 per cent of the total ration cards and 82.38 per cent of total allotment

In a first, online verification of birth and death certificates is being carried out in the state to help beneficiaries avail the benefits of government schemes, reportsIsha Jain. The initiative taken by director,Census Operations(DCO),Uttar Pradesh, Sheetal Verma is aimed at ensuring prompt service delivery to beneficiaries through IT-enabled facilities for automated verification of birth and death certificates with minimum human interference.

The swift execution became possible with the first-of-its-kind online verification of birth and death certificates being carried out in the state to help beneficiaries avail the benefits of government schemes.

The park will be coming up on 350acre and land for the project has already been acquired byYEIDA. In phase 1, we are expecting investments of at least Rs 15,000 crore. Several companies have approached the government with proposals and development work for the project will kick off soon.

The master plan, prepared byaviationconsultants Landrum & Brown and Zurich Airport International, has been cleared by DGCA, AAI, BCAS and environmental authorities.

The NIA masterplan also has provision for General Corporate Aviation facilities, including a VVIP terminal, a General Aviation Terminal and Heli taxi pads. These facilities will cater to the needs of state dignitaries, handle private jet movements and helicopters.

Committed to equipping the state with all required Resources and to foster Sports culture, the has so far established around 81 rural stadiums while 20 stadiums are under construction.

Under the Khelo India programme, introduced to revive the sports culture at the grassroots level by building a strong framework for all sports played in our country, construction of rural stadiums was going on at a rapid pace.

To encourage rural sports in the state, the government has also started conducting competitions in five sports disciplines. Under this, competitions of athletics, volleyball, kabaddi, weightlifting and wrestling are organised at the block and district levels. Not only this, the players have got more opportunities to play than before by organising divisional, zone and state-level sports competitions.

As lakhs of young aspirants make Sangam city their Home while preparing for different competitive exams, authorities ofSmart CityProject, Prayagraj plan to convert thesmartclass rooms in 19 schools of the city into study centres for them.

The Smart City Project proposed to accommodate the young aspirants in the smart classrooms after school hours at a nominal monthly fee of Rs 300. Presently, these aspirants are coughing out between Rs 800 and Rs 1,500 for such a facility.

The Smart City Mission has converted a total of 295 classrooms in 19 schools of the city into smart classrooms.

As per the proposed plan, the aspirants will be provided with low-cost study centres, wherein all the amenities will be provided that they get by paying hefty amounts to private players in the market. There are around 200 such privately owned study centres in the city.

In its journey of less than a decade in India,US e-commercecompanyAmazonhas pledged to create one million jobs in the country by 2025.

Amazon already has significant presence in UP through its fulfilment centresLucknow, Agra andGorakhpurhave a cumulative storage space of over 3 million cubic feetand a huge sorting centre in the state capital, he said that the company has over 1 lakh sellers including artisans, small business owners, Women entrepreneurs and start-up originators in the state.
For efficient delivery,Amazon Indiaworks through three different back-end programmes, all with significant presence in UP.

The best performing areas will be rewarded through variouss means. This is being done, the CM said, to generate awareness about the novel coronavirus and ensuring that everyone followed Covid appropriate behaviour.

Out of the 98,386 revenue villages in the state, complete testing had taken place in 89,512 villages and patients had been found in 28,742 villages where testing was being increased.

In this initiative, all public representatives and agencies will encourage people to follow Covid protocols and ensure that others follow them too. Villages in a district declared Covid-free first will be given benefits of some social schemes.