After faith push, UP govt to focus on development

Gets ready for groundbreaking ceremony next month. Plans implementation of proposals worth ₹10 lakh crore

Updated on: Jan 25, 2024, 09:42:16 IST

By Umesh Raghuvanshi, Lucknow

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Uttar Pradesh government is stepping up preparations for the groundbreaking ceremony scheduled next month to give a further push to development along with its continuing focus on faith following inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya on January 22, 2024.

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“We are stepping up preparations for the groundbreaking ceremony proposed next month. We propose to implement proposals worth ₹10 lakh crore at the groundbreaking ceremony next month,” said infrastructure and industrial development commissioner (IIDC) Manoj Kumar Singh,

The state government has already stated that the consecration ceremony would help Uttar Pradesh in achieving the objective of making the state a trillion-dollar economy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with chief minister Yogi Adityanath attended the consecration ceremony of Ram Lalla’s idol at the new Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22.

A day after the consecration ceremony at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, chief secretary Durga Shanka Mishra also reviewed the preparations for the groundbreaking ceremony. He spoke to the district magistrates and divisional commissioners at a video conferencing on Tuesday and asked them to prepare to implement more than target investment proposals. He said all possible help should be extended to the investors and special campaigns be launched in all the districts for land facilitation. He said entrepreneurs should be given options for land allocation and verification work for implementation of the MoUs be expedited.

Uttar Pradesh government had got MoUs of about ₹35 lakh crore signed at the Global Investors Summit-2023 held here from February 10 to 12, 2023. It claimed that the proposed investment through the implementation of MoUs is likely to reach ₹40 lakh crore. The state legislature’s budget session is also scheduled to begin next month. The state government’s budget is also expected to bring focus on development agenda ahead of 2024 polls. The groundbreaking after the Ram temple inauguration will give a further push to the state government’s development agenda ahead of 2024 polls.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Umesh Raghuvanshi
Umesh Raghuvanshi is an award-winning journalist with nearly four decades of demonstrated experience in the profession. He is the author of Ayodhya: The Gods Are Liberated. He is skilled in storytelling and newswriting, and writes on politics, governance, legislature, finance, environment, and social issues. He is based in Lucknow, is well-travelled, and has covered several national and international events, as well as all assembly and parliament elections in Uttar Pradesh since 1984. He has been a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and a Metcalf Fellow at the Metcalf Institute of Marine and Environmental Reporting, University of Rhode Island, USA. He is a science graduate from DBS College, Dehradun, and holds an MA in Political Science from DAV (PG) College, Dehradun. He won the KC Kulish International Merit Award for excellence in journalism (2015) and received it in New Delhi in 2017. He also won a competition organised by the United Nations Environment Programme DTIE OzonAction Programme in 2009 that assessed coverage of the interlinkages between ozone and climate change. He was awarded in Beijing, China, in 2010. He started his career with a Dehradun-based English daily in the early 1980s and later worked with The Pioneer too.Read More