‘Want to make UP the most developed state in country’
NEWDELHI: With a month left for his government to complete a year in office, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath is confident that his state will attract large investments, courtesy its push on the policy front and the state’s advantages in terms of demography and farm output. In an interview, Adityanath spoke of employment generation, infrastructure development, betterment of farmers, and other sections of the population. Edited excerpts: for industrial and employment generation, food processing, MSMES (micro, small and medium enterprises), aviation, handloom, power loom, textile and garment sector, information technology, electronic manufacturing, film sector, tourism and renewable energy. All these policies are ready and the remaining, such as pharma, will be implemented in the next few days.
We are creating a land bank. The same UP where only four districts used to get power, now gets power in all districts.
We have ensured that the law and order situation has improved. We also conducted several roadshows for the summit. People have become confident that UP is on the right path and has an investment-friendly environment. Over 8,000 people have already registered for the summit and more than 700 Mous are ready. We want to make Uttar Pradesh the most developed state in the country. We want to generate employment to channelise youngsters who migrate to different states. Our development initiatives focused on farmers, youth, women and villages in the first phase. Work is in progress. This is the first government that in the last 10 months managed to transfer ₹80,000 crore to the accounts of farmers through direct benefit transfer. We have implemented farm loan waiver and also paid ₹25,000 crore due to sugarcane farmers.
Skill development is being promoted through vocational education. We have enrolled six lakh youngsters, of which 2.5 lakh have completed their course and 1.4 lakh have been given placement. These people are now earning between ₹15,000 and 40,000 per month. We have also started a programme for start-ups.