In a remarkable achievement for the Uttar Pradesh Government, the state has secured the top position nationwide in effectively implementing eight welfare schemes for the underprivileged and the needy. This achievement also highlights Chief Minister Yogi Adityanaths sensitivity towards common people.
The eight schemes include Prime Minister SVANidhi Yojana among others, which seeks to uplift street vendors by providing them interest free loans for running their businesses.
Uttar Pradesh tops in the country by providing the benefits of the scheme to maximum number of street vendors. Madhya Pradesh ranks second and third in taking the welfare scheme to the people.
An official spokesman of the government said that the chief ministers regular monitoring and reviewing of implementation of a variety of central governments schemes in the state had put Uttar Pradesh at the forefront in delivering its benefits to people.
So far, the benefit of eight central schemes has been given to 20,74,450 beneficiaries in the state. At the same time, Uttar Pradesh is also on top in the country in terms of digital transactions done by vendors. At present there are 4,90,240 digitally active vendors in the state, who have carried out digital transactions of Rs 63,78,24,790 so far. Maximum digital vendors are active in Varanasi, Firozabad, Prayagraj, Jhansi and Lucknow.