UTTAR PRADESH

Uttar Pradeshs first govt-run water sports complex comes up in Gorakhpur

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Chief MinisterYogi Adityanathwill giftUttar Pradeshits firstwater Sports complexat Ramgarh Tal inGorakhpuron Thursday during his two-day visit to the city.

The water sports complex at the lake is the first in the state which has been constructed by the public sector. The complex is spread on a 5-acre area near Ramgarh Tal, which is spread over 1,700 acres.

The facility of boating, water biking, skiing, etc., is also available at the complex.

besides the Rs 23.45 crore Nagar Nigam building, he will also inaugurate the first phase ofIntelligent Transport Management Systemof Rs 50.25 crore, 40 roads of Rs 22.23 by theDistrict Urban Development Agency, Rs11.88 crore roads and sewerage channels by Nagar Nigam and Rs 50.56 crore water pipeline underAmrit Yojna.

UP govt announces conditional subsidies for upcoming firms

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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.

Uttar Pradesh sees 23% jump in juvenile crime, 1,282 booked in 2020

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Even as crime against children declined, the offences committed by juveniles shot up by 23% in 2020, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) statistics.

As many as 976 crimes were committed by children in 2019 which went up to 1,282 in 2020.
Data shows that 238 cases of crimes were committed by minors under the POSCO Act, followed by theft (219), burglary (75) and rape (54 cases).

Out of 1,282 minors booked in 2020, at least 575 had passed Class 10. As per the record of cities mentioned in NCRB report, Lucknow recorded 120 cases of crimes committed by juveniles in 2020, up from 63 reported in 2019. In Kanpur, 10 cases were committed by juveniles in 2019 which rose to 15 in 2020.

In a first, women will operate 25% retail liquor business in Uttar Pradesh from April 1

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Once considered to be a domain of local strongmen, Women participation in the liquor business has been on the rise inUttar Pradeshof late. Beginning April 1, women would control 25% of the retail liquor business in the state, recording the highest participation so far.

The statewide data maintained by the excise department headquarters inPrayagrajshows that out of the total 28,930 retail liquor shops (including bhang shops) that have been floated by the department for the 2023-24 fiscal year across the state, 7,216 have been bagged by women.

IITR, RMLAU sign MoU for research work

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Students of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University (RMLAU), Ayodhya will soon get an opportunity to learn and assist the leading scientists of the country at CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR).

IITR, in return, will get bright students from RMLAU as project assistants and for other research-related work.

An MoU for an academic collaboration between the two institutes was signed during the one week one lab event.

Rs 19,265-cr MoUs signed with US, Canada investors

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Having succeeded in presenting the progressive transformation of Uttar Pradesh before investors in the United States and Canada ahead of the Global Investors Summit (GIS), Team Yogi has not only received several proposals (letters of intent) in the state but has also signed MoUs worth Rs 19,265 crore.

The maximum investment in the MoUs signed so far is going to be in the Logistics, DEFENCE and aerospace sectors. Mobility Infrastructure Group will invest Rs 8,200 crore in this sector within the state. With this, about 100 EMPLOYMENT opportunities will be generated in the state. At the same time, QSTC Inc will also invest Rs 8200 crore in defence and aerospace. It will create about 200 employment opportunities.

MoUs worth Rs 2,055 crore were signed between the State Government and healthcare sector companies. Under this, My Health Center and ZMQ Companies will invest Rs 2,050 crore and Rs 5 crore, respectively, creating about 560 employment opportunities.

The state government has said that the improvement in its Ease of Living rankings over the last four and a half years has been one of its major achievements.

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According to the Ease of Living Index, 14 UP cities have been considered better in terms of living in the country. While Lucknow has been ranked the best place for living in the state, Varanasi is the second. Among small cities, Jhansi has been considered to be the best. Among all states, Lucknow has been ranked 26th among big cities, followed by Varanasi. Jhansi has ranked 34th among smaller cities.

He said that the One District-One Product scheme had contributed to improving the rural economy and increasing the per capita rural domestic product. development, focus on law and order, construction of greenfield townships, Noida Film City, special initiatives for tourism, and development of expressways and Airports made life easier for people in the state, he added.

The Banking correspondent sakhi programme, under which the government has trained rural Women in banking processes and is making banking facilities available at the doorsteps of rural citizens in the state is also being held as a major achievement of the government in ease of living.

Increase credit-deposit ratio to 60%: Uttar Pradesh chief secretary DS Mishra

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During the state-level bankers committee meeting held on Wednesday, chief secretaryDS Mishrasaid that the credit-deposit ration should be increased from the current 40% to 60% inMadhyanchal, Purvanchal and Bundelkhand in the next four months.

Along with this, he said, there is a need to focus on aspirational districts, blocks and cities and added that districts which are lagging in crop Insurance along with other kinds of insurance must be pulled ahead. Loan melas should be organised in districts so that maximum number of people can take advantage of schemes, he said.

During the meeting it was informed that in the quarter ended September, the total deposits in the state were Rs 14.31 lakh crore against Rs 13.13 lakh crore in September 2021. The advance in September 2022 was 7.51 lakh crore, which is Rs 84,449 crore more than last year. The Banking business in the current financial year saw an increase of Rs 62,166 crore, taking the business to Rs 21.90 lakh crore this year.

In the current financial year, UP saw an improvement in banking with appointment of 10,034 bank mitra and 7,664 bank sakhis and addition of 207 ATMs. Against a target of loans of Rs 2,94,988 crore in this financial year, loans of Rs 1,42,537 crore or 48% have been disbursed till September 2022.

National Family Health Survey-5- Highlights

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Report finds that, in Uttar Pradesh, only 1.5% Women aged between 30 and 49 years have undergone screening test for cervical cancer in life.

Many Health indicators have improved in the state.

Less domestic violence with women was reported.

Sex ratio has also improved.

Use of family planning methods and institutional delivery has increased.

Diarrhoea infection among kids has decreased.

As per NFHS-5, 1.1 % women in urban areas and 1.7 % women in rural areas underwent screening. Thus, rural women scored better with respect to awareness and screening for cervical cancer.

Number of women (aged 30-49 years) who had undergone breast examination for cancer was just 0.4%, in rural as well as urban areas surveyed.

Number of women, who undergone for oral cavity examination for cancer was only 0.6% in rural as well as urban areas.

A recent report on Uttar Pradeshs economy released by State Planning Institute (Economic and Statistics Division) does not paint a rosy picture of the state and claims that the states economy has grown at less than 5 per cent of Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) in the last four-and-a-half years of the Yogi Raj. The survey report does not augur well as Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had earlier set the target of taking Uttar Pradesh to a one-trillion-dollar economy in the next five years. At present, the nominal GDP of the state for the year 2020-21 is Rs 17.05 lakh crore (US$ 240 billion).

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There is no denying the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the states economy as UPs Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) has shrunk by 5.9 per cent in 2020-2021. But the worrying sign is that the states economy grew at less than 5 per cent in the last four-and-half-year tenure of the Yogi Adityanath regime. The revised data released for 2018-19 (revised provisional), 2019-20 (revised quick) and 2020-21 (revised advance) also indicate that the economy of Uttar Pradesh grew at a lesser rate than expected.

The revised estimates of the states income that the State Planning Institute (Economics and Statistics Division) released last week show a systemic decline in the Health of the economy. The GSDP Growth in 2017-18 was 4.9 per cent. However in 2018-19 and 2019-20 fiscals, it remained at about 4.3 per cent only. As per these estimates, the rate of economic growth was less than 5 per cent during 2017-20 and -5.9 per cent in the COVID-19 affected 2020-21.

The advance estimates for 2020-21 (released in March 2021) indicated a contraction of about 6.4 per cent in the GSDP. The UP government can take solace because the national economy too contracted by 7.3 per cent in the 2020-21 fiscal, as per GDP statistics released by National Statistical Office (NSO) of the Union Government on May 31, 2021.

The worrisome fact is that sectors like manufacturing registered negative rates of growth over the last four years and its share in GSDP is also declining and is less than 15 per cent. For a state which is yearning for industrialisation, this is not a good sign. On the contrary, the performance of the Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture sector has been encouraging as even during the pandemic-affected 2020-21, the sector showed a positive growth of 2.7 per cent. Services, or tertiary, sector has done well except in 2020-21 wherein it shrunk to 7.9 per cent.

The data shows that UPs GSDP (at current prices) is estimated to have reached Rs 15.82 lakh crore in 2018-19, Rs 17.25 lakh crore in 2019-20, and Rs 17.39 lakh crore in 2020-21. The had recently claimed that the GSDP had peaked from Rs 17.91 lakh crore to Rs 19.40 lakh crore (revised estimates) on March 31, 2021.

The above facts should be a sobering reminder to the state government that much needs to be done to put Uttar Pradesh on the fast trajectory of growth. If it really wants to become a one-trillion-dollar economy, the state has to come up with a clear roadmap. The poor GSDP does not enthuse confidence that the state will be able to achieve the target within the stipulated timeline and it would be better that the state government goes back to the drawing board and revises its strategy.