UTTAR PRADESH

The Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture department has started work on rolling out the Rs 603 crore Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Kisan Samriddhi scheme inUttar Pradesh. Issuing a government order on Wednesday, the department has set a goal of changing the status of 2.19 lakh hectare of unproductive land for agriculture purposes.

Barring Gautam Budh Nagar all the remaining 74 districts are going to be covered under the scheme. Officials said due to limited agriculture activity in Noida andGreater Noidaand unavailability of farm workers, the UP-NCR district was not included in the scheme.

The Yogi government gave its approval to launch the scheme and provided the budget in the cabinet meeting that took place on June 14. After carrying out surveys the department identified 1.78 lakh hectare of barren and fallow land and an additional 41,000 hectare of low-lying and waterlogged land. The department said that work on improving the condition of the waterlogged and low-lying land would be done through MGNREGA funds while funds required to turn around barren land into productive fields will be provided by the .

A two-week training programme forUdyami Mitracommenced in Lucknow.

The government will appoint 105 friends of investors in each district and Lucknow and other major divisional headquarters to assist investors with policies, land availability, government systems and handhold them through the entire process till their unit is set up.

The Udyami Mitra were selected on the basis of a written exam and are expected to provide pace to the process of shortlisting companies which will be in a position to ground their projects during the first ground breaking ceremony scheduled to take place in a few months.

Advisor to CM Arvind Kumar apprised the newly selected Udyami Mitra about the comprehensive industrial ecosystem being developed by the and various reforms and policies announced to attract and facilitate Investment in the state. He spoke about the upcoming major Infrastructure projects such as multi-modal Logistics parks, pharma parks, dedicated freight corridor and six nodes of the DEFENCE Corridor.

The state since the onset of novel coronavirus pandemic, according to the data shared by state Health and family welfare department.

The number of boys (27,851) with Covid-19 infection was higher than the girls (20,839). Also, 1.42 lakh cases among minors were recorded in the age group of 11-20 years. Together, it formed about 11.3% of the total caseload in the state.

The data is crucial in view of the concerns that more children could get infection in the anticipated third wave. Global estimates indicate that about 40% of cases in the third wave could affect minors.

Among the steps taken by the government under the Leadership of CMYogi Adityanath, development of paediatric intensive care units and training of required workforce are important.

MOUs for these proposed clusters, to be set up at the cost of Rs 10 lakh crore, were signed during the UP Global Investors Summit earlier this year in Lucknow.

The proposed mega clusters will come up around Purvanchal and Bundelkhand expressways apart from the Gorakhpur Link Expressway. The government has identified 600 hectares of land in six districts Barabanki, Ghazipur, Jaunpur, Gorakhpur, Banda, and Jalaun.

Of the total proposals of Rs 35 lakh crore, Purvanchal (Eastern UP) and Bundelkhand regions hold a share of Rs 9.54 lakh crore and Rs 4.27 lakh crore, respectively. They collectively account for almost 40 per cent of the total value of the MoU.

Since investors need large swathes of land to set up manufacturing units or for Warehousing and Logistics needs, the state is moving fast to ramp up the land bank for allotment to companies.

As part of conservation efforts,AgraMetro Project authorities aim to recharge 10 lakh litres of groundwater every year. Work has started to construct 300 recharge pits along the 29-km-long metro rail alignment for the purpose. Besides, rainwater harvesting systems will also be developed at half a dozen other locations to maximize the collection of rainwater.

Along these lines, Agra Metro Project is also making elaborate arrangements for groundwater recharge and rainwater harvesting. This metro project will be the first of its kind in Agra to take such extensive steps for groundwater recharge.

The Agra Metro rail project is likely to be completed by 2025.

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.