UTTAR PRADESH

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.

In an attempt to provide nutritious food to students in the state-run schools, the has announced an increase in the amount for mid-day meals served to children in primary schools. The revised rates will be applicable with effect from April 1, 2023.

According to the Mid-Day Meal Authority, the cost of cooked meals served to children in primary schools has been increased to Rs 5.45 per student per day from the earlier Rs 4.97.

Similarly, for upper primary schools, the cost has been increased to Rs 8.17 per student per day from Rs 7.45 per student.

Thus, the revised rates are 48 paise more per student per day for primary students and 72 paise more per student per day for juniors.

All the district magistrates have been informed about the revised rates by the authority.

On the face of it, the increase looks marginal but when it is looked at in totality, it is enough to add some nutritious grain to the meal, a senior official of the Basic Shiksha Parishad said here on Tuesday.

However, there is uncertainty in some districts regarding the date of implementation of the new rates as they have raised concerns about the order issued by the Basic Shiksha Adhikari and are seeking clarification on the same.

Director of School Education Vijay Kiran Anand said that a meeting with the government would be held soon regarding the revised rates, and a decision would be taken.

It is noteworthy that the department is also planning to include more grains to the mid-day meal scheme, and a decision on this is expected to be taken soon.

Adani Green EnergyLimited (AGEL) announced commissioning of 50 MW solar powerplantinChitrakoot.

The plant, Adani Chitrakoot One Limited, has a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) withUttar Pradesh Power Corporationlimited at Rs. 3.07/KWh.. With this commissioning AGELs total operational renewable capacity grows to 3,520 MW.

The company said that the plant will be connected to its state-of-the-art energy Network operation centre (ENOC) that continuously monitors and analyses performance of 80+ solar and wind Plants across diverse locations in India. With this, AGEL has an operational solar generation capacity of over 3 GW.

More than 1.9 lakh cases of crime against dalits were registered in four years from 2018, the Centre told Parliament earlier this week, citing National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data.

As many as 49,613 cases of atrocities and attacks on dalits were registered inUttar Pradesh(11,924 in 2018, 11,829 in 2019, 12,714 in 2020, and 13,146 in 2021). States and UTs such asManipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Lakshadweep and Andamans reported zero cases since 2018. Union MoS for Home,Ajay Kumar Mishra, shared the data on Tuesday in response to a query by BSP MP Girish Chandra, who asked if there was any mechanism to monitor such incidents.
A total of 1,89,945 cases of crime against the community were registered in four years (42,793 in 2018, 45,961 in 2019, 50,291 in 2020 and 50,900 in 2021) in the country. Chargesheet was filed in 1,50,454 of them with 27,754 convictions.

The decades-old economic relations between UP and Italy will not only deepen but will go forward at the speed of a bullet train, said Italian Embassy’s Trade Commissioner Alessandro Liberatori on Saturday at the Italy Partner Country Session at UP Global Investors Summit-2023.

Citing the similarity in trade synergy between Uttar Pradesh and Italy, he said that there were unlimited possibilities of trade between the two. With the new policy brought by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to set up industries in UP, Uttar Pradesh will emerge as a new hub of and Italian industries will play an important role in this, Liberatori said.

The Italian embassy’s trade commissioner said that Italy would also help Uttar Pradesh to become a circular economy as Italy recycles more than 79 per cent of its urban waste. Not only this, UNESCO will play a leading role in preserving the sites and world heritage regions.On the other hand, by promoting Space Technology, leather processing in the state, it will help UP to be recognised in the global market, he said.