UTTAR PRADESH

Uttar Pradesh is a state with infinite possibilities in terms of tourism. All major centres of religious, spiritual, eco-tourism are present here. Today Uttar Pradesh is number one in terms of domestic tourism. In 2024, when the Shri Ram temple will be ready in Ayodhya, tourism will increase 10 times.

The chief minister said that the efforts made by the under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the last five years had made Uttar Pradesh number one in domestic tourism.

Citing the example of Prayagraj, the chief minister said that 24 crore devotees visited the city during the 2019 Kumbh, one of the best organised events. The chief minister also mentioned about the government’s plans to develop Ramayana, Krishna and Buddhist circuits. The chief minister said that important Buddhist sites like Sarnath, Kushinagar, Kapilvastu, Shravasti, Kaushambi were located in UP while an international airport was being built at Shravasti in Kushinagar. He said Naimisharanya, the land of scripting Vedic shrutis, and Chitrakoot, associated with Lord Rama’s exile, was also located in UP.

TheGovernment Institute of Medical Sciences(GIMS) is planning to startZika virustesting at its laboratory in the next few days. The hospital management has already obtained testing kits from the Indian Council of Medical Research (Icmr) and will assess the samples of fever patients who have been found negative for dengue and chikungunya.

The Zika virus is an emerging mosquito-borne pathogen. Initially, only a small number of cases had been found in Africa and Asia until 2007. In the following years, due to widespread international travel, a large number of cases were reported in different countries.
According to experts, many people infected with the virus dont have symptoms or only have mild symptoms that are similar to other arbovirus infections, such as dengue, and include fever, skin rashes, conjunctivitis, muscle and joint pain, malaise, and headache.

Yogi added, Before 1947, there were only 3-4 medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh, despite the fact that todays Uttarakhand was then part of the state. It was followed by the opening of merely 12 medical colleges in the last 70 years. In contrast, our government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi is opening 30 medical colleges in UP in just four and a half years under the Prime Minister Health Insurance Scheme. In 2019, MBBS course was started in seven medical colleges of the state and today nine new state medical colleges are being opened. Besides, construction of 14 new medical colleges is currently underway with the cooperation of the Government of India.

The chief minister said that the prime minister also provided EMPLOYMENT and distributed free rations to people other than free vaccination against COVID-19 throughout because of his sensitivity towards people at large.

Enabling households to cook using smoke-free fuels, the Uttar Pradesh government has set a target to provide 20 lakh free cooking gas connections to the poor families under Ujjwala 2.0.

The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana under which Women of below https://exam.pscnotes.com/POVERTY-line”>Poverty Line (BPL) families are being provided with clean cooking fuel was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Ballia (Uttar Pradesh) on May 1, 2016.

Distributing free LPG connections through a virtual programme from his official residence in Lucknow, Yogi Adityanath also interacted with the beneficiaries from as many as 10 districts, including Banda, Chitrakoot, Hardoi, Amethi, Farrukhabad, Sonbhadra, Rae Bareli, Mahoba, Budaun and Fatehpur.

Uttar Pradesh Government decided to give incentives for setting units in first medical device park of states.

This unit has been proposed on 350-acre of land in Sector 28 of the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA).

Government also decided to implement Pt Deendayal Upadhyay Kisan Samridhi Yojana in state till 2026-27.

The units will be set up in park, for which government would provide incentives in terms of capital interest subsidy, relaxation in SGST, freight incentives, patent filing fee, air cargo handling charge, stamp duty exemption, quality certification land lease rate, and Marketing assistance, etc.

Pilibhit Tiger Reserve is located in Pilibhit district of Uttar Pradesh. In 2014, it was notified as a tiger reserve. The reserve is a part of Terai Arc Landscape in upper Gangetic Plain along India-Nepal border. It is characterized by sal forests, swamp maintained by periodic flooding from rivers and tall grasslands. The Sharda Sagar Dam, extends to a length of 22 km, is located on the boundary of this reserve.

:Uttar Pradeshbagged the first position among states in the India Smart Cities Award contest. In the second round cities, Agra got the first and Varanasi the third position.

Besides, Varanasi got the first position under the theme ‘water’ for eco-restoration of Assi river and ‘Innovation Award’ forCovidinnovation. Besides, Varanasi got the second position in the smart cities’ city Leadership category.

This is the first time that states are being awarded under the smart cities mission. Madhya Pradesh bagged second position while Nadu grabbed third place.

UP was given the first prize among the states for taking up development of seven cities under the state smart cities scheme, which are Meerut, Ghaziabad,Ayodhya, Firozabad,Gorakhpur, Mathura-Vrindavan and Saharanpur. State Government has implemented a statesmart cityscheme in seven municipal corporations on the lines of the central scheme. CMYogi Adityanathtweeted that it was under the guidance of the Prime Minister and because of the committed effort of the UP government that the state has got the first position in the Indian Smart Cities Award contest.

Under the theme `economy‘, Agra won the award for the micro Skill development centre. Saharanpur got the first position for Covid innovation in the fourth round. Urban development minister Ashutosh Tandon said that it has been made possible because of the continuing guidance and review by the chief minister.

The SamagraShiksha Abhiyan, UP, saw an increase of 33% in the fund allocation for the academic year (2023-24) against the 2022-23 fiscal in the Project Approval Board (PAB) meeting. SSA is an integrated scheme and effort to universalize elementary Education by community-ownership of the school system.

For the academic year 2023-23, SSA received a grant of Rs 12,744 crore. Out of total allocation, Rs 11,525.3 crore is allocated towards elementary education, Rs 996.27 crore is allocated towards secondary education and Rs 222.76 crore is allocated towards teacher education.

Thebudgetreceived for SSA will be utilized across various heads to undertake initiatives and programmes aimed at improving the quality of education, said an official. Under the Quality education head, a total of Rs 1,907 crore has been sanctioned as approved budget. This includes procuring 8,778 tablets for digital Learning, setting up 22,000 smart classrooms, and 3,669 ICT labs. Besides, it also includes conducting assessment tests for measuring learning outcomes of children, providing library books and implementing learning by doing programmes.

Under ECCE (Early Childhood Care and Education), a total of Rs 263 crore has been sanctioned as approved budget which will be utilized for TEACHING-learning material for children, outdoor play materials, and child-friendly furniture.

The dream of a self-reliant and Digital India will only be realised by taking along the farm sector,AgricultureministerNarendra SinghTomar said.

Tomar was speaking during a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signing ceremony of the Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture ministry with four institutions, an official statement said.
These institutions are — Patanjali Organic Research Institute,Amazon Web Services(AWS), ESRI India Pvt Ltd, and Agribazar India Pvt. Ltd.

The MoUs have been signed with these organisations for pilot project of using Kisan Database asAadhaarwithin a period of one year.

The agreement with ESRI is for setting up and launching of ‘National Agriculture Geo Hub’.
The MoU with Amazon Web Services is for creation of digital services and innovation ecosystem linked with digital agriculture in the agricultural value chain.

The agreement with Agribazar is for collaborating withDepartment of Agriculturefor pilot project in three states (Uttar Pradesh,Madhya Pradesh,Rajasthan) to promote digital agriculture.

An MoU has been signed with Patanjali for agricultural management and farmer service in three districts (Haridwar- Uttarakhand, Hamirpur- Uttar Pradesh and Moraina- Madhya Pradesh).

To maintain strict vigil on dreaded criminals and mafias, CCTVs with system have been installed in jails across Uttar Pradesh. Besides, dual view scanner baggage, full human body worn scanner, contactless glasses for meeting rooms and many devices equipped with new technology have been installed in five high security jails of the state.

A proposal in this regard was sent to the government by the Prison Administration and Reforms department, following which Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath released the budget after a high-level meeting.

So far, 145 video conferencing halls have been set up, which include 72 prisons and 73 district courts, to conduct 100 per cent remand of undertrials detained in state prisons through video conferencing.

With this, five dual view scanner baggage, five full human body worn Zscanner, 130 contactless glasses for meeting rooms, five panic alarms systems, 15 night vision binoculars and five lighting protection system ESE units have been set up in five high security jails of the state namely district jail in Lucknow, Azamgarh, Chitrakoot, Gautam Buddha Nagar and Central Jail Bareilly-II respectively.

CCTV surveillance units are being set up in a phased manner to further enhance the security system of prisons. Along with this, at least 30 cameras have been installed in each prison, marking sensitive places in the prisons. At present, more than 3,600 CCTV cameras have been installed in all the jails of the state. Not only this, the work of increasing the number of these cameras, restoration of cameras and arrangement of servers, including storage, in 30 prisons has been completed.

Uttam’ Education in ‘new’ Uttar Pradesh is the new mantra of the Yogi Adityanath government in the state.

The UP government is elated over the fact that in the last four years, about 4.80 crore new students have enrolled in the government schools of the state.

Through ‘Operation Kayakalp’, basic facilities were provided in nearly 1.35 lakh schools of the state. Children were given free books, school bags, two pairs of uniforms, sweaters and shoes-stockings. Apart from this, separate toilets have been constructed for boys and girls,” the spokesman said.

Besides, during the four-year tenure of Yogi Government, 193 new Inter-colleges have become operational and 56 new inter colleges were sanctioned.

In an important step, the UP government has taken the initiative of Abhyuday coaching for the students going out of the state for the preparation of competitive examinations.

Uttar Pradesh is also the only state in the country to offer free Abhyuday coaching to students. The dream of the students to become engineers, doctors and administrative officers will be fulfilled by this initiative of the Yogi government.