UP CM Yogi Adityanath presents his govt's half-yearly report card

Lucknow: Asserting his government managed to bring down crime graph considerably during last six months, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday claimed that law and order presented the best picture in last many years.

Charting out achievements of his government on completion of six months of his tenure, he said, "Never before the people of the state lived in an atmosphere of fearlessness like this." There used to be at least two riots every week in previous regimes, but the new ruling dispensation had managed to control communal situation in the best possible manner, he added.

"During the past six months, a total of 17 arrant criminals have been eliminated and 1106 have been arrested in 431 encounters carried out by UP Police. During the process, 88 cops have also sustained injuries while Inspector JP Singh had martyred during one of the encounters," Yogi said, at a press conference joined by DGP Sulkhan Singh, Om Prakash Rajbhar, Reeta Bahuguna Joshi, Ashutosh Tandon, Brajesh Pathak and Siddharth Nath Singh.

During the address, he also patted his government's back for creating an 'investment friendly' atmosphere in the state.

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"We have lived up to the expectations of the people by creating an investment friendly atmosphere here. A number of companies are showing interest in investing in our state. The previous governments had failed miserably in creating such atmosphere because investors only prefer those places where is the rule of law," he said.

Adityanath said the state government had accorded top priority to the agriculture sector and farmers and cited the crop loan waiver as an example of prioritising farmers interests. Adityanath said that so far loans of 86 lakh farmers of various amounts upto Rs 1 lakh have been waived by his government.

What else he said?

• The dynasty and casteism politics have kept UP underdeveloped.
• This is the first time when 35 lakh metric ton wheat has been bought directly from the farmers.
• A total of 95 per cent payment of the sugarcane farmers has already been done.
• The previous government was never so serious about filling up the vacant posts in the government departments.
• This was the reason why police recruitment had been halted.
• We have already initiated recruitment process of 47,000 police constables.
• We will hire 1.5 lakh cops in the next three years.
• We will allot houses to 9.70 lakh people of the state under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojna.
• The previous government did not pay attention to providing houses to the poor.
• The previous Samajwadi Party government had also distributed Ration Cards to the people but 336 lakh of them have been found fake in the primary investigation.
• Uttar Pradesh has achieved the highest revenues in the past six months.
• We promised to provide pothole-free roads, and to achieve the same, we have constructed 80,000 kms road.
• We have planned to re-launch the program from October 1.
• We will also distribute shoes, socks and sweaters to 17 lakh children across the state before the winters arrive this year.
• Over 30 lakh people were affected due to floods across the state.
• We fulfilled all their requirements in the tough times.
• The concerned officials also did a commendable job.
• To shield the children from deadly disease of encephalitis, vaccination were provided in 39 districts of the state.
• We are also taking help from corporation for buying medicines.
• Bundelkhand Expressway will soon be brought under DPR.
• We are swiftly executing the works on the Poorvanchal Expressway.
• Kanpur and Agra Metro projects are also being run swiftly.
• Meerut-Delhi will be connected through rapid rail.
• Ayodhya and Mathura will be developed on a priority basis.
• He also promised development of Varanasi and successful execution of Ardh-Kumbha.
• Hapur, Shamli and Ghaziabad will be made Open Defecation Free (ODF) by October 1.