Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

6lane B’khandDelhi highway soon: Yogi

PROBE ORDERED Chief minister orders investigat­ion into digging of ponds in Chitrakoot and Jhansi divisions in past three years

- HT Correspond­ent letters@hindustant­imes.com n

JHANSI: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday declared that Bundelkhan­d would soon be connected directly with Delhi through a six-lane highway.

Addressing party workers and legislator­s at the Paramedica­l College ground here after a review meeting at Vikas Bhavan, the chief minister said the direct road connectivi­ty with Delhi would open up new horizons for fast industrial­isation of the region, besides generating employment.

He said for want of adequate employment opportunit­ies, there was heavy exodus of youths and others from the district. This exodus could be checked if jobs could be provided here, the chief minister added.

The chief minister also ordered a probe into the digging of ponds in Chitrakoot and Jhansi divisions in the past three years.

Yogi warned party workers against taking the law in their hands and said that if they had any complaints against any authority, they should tell the local MP and MLAs, who would in turn inform him about the complaint. “Action would be initiated against guilty officers,” he assured them.

He said even if party workers found that hospitals failed to serve the people properly, they should complain to their representa­tives and the problem would be taken up for solution.

“If fair price food grain, meant for the poor, was being sold in the open market, stringent action would be taken against the concerned officials,” Yogi said.

The chief minister said “now the work culture would be changed.”

Yogi said now staff of the electricit­y department would go to houses of power connection seekers to give connection to them. People would not have to run for power connection­s from one window to another at their offices.

Public representa­tives, including UP minister for state Mahendra Singh, Swatantra Dev Singh, Manohar Lal, mayor Kiran Raaju and several others present at the review meeting told Yogi that a package of Rs 2,800 crore was given to Bundelkhan­d for its developmen­t but no developmen­t work was done so far as the money was misused.

 ?? MANOJ YADAV/HT PHOTO ?? CM Yogi Adityanath interactin­g with primary school children in n Tankori village in Jhansi on Thursday.
MANOJ YADAV/HT PHOTO CM Yogi Adityanath interactin­g with primary school children in n Tankori village in Jhansi on Thursday.

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