Noida Mar 21 PTI BJP legislator Dhirendra Singh said health and education will be his priority in his second term as the Jewar MLA while he also plans to get locals trained for skills that could help them bag 40 per cent of the jobs at the Noida International Airport Singh a key negotiator with farmers for land acquisition for the Rs 29560 crore airport project won the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls from Jewar with 117 lakh or 5053 per cent votes polled The people of my constituency have done their job by electing me and now I have to prove what I will do for the constituency in the coming days he told PTI He said Jewar has certainly made a lot of progress in the past five years and it had been one of the most backward regions in the state This is the same place where gunshots would be fired for two inches of land but now it is becoming home to Asias largest airport with peoples consent for land acquisition he said recalling the infamous Bhatta-Parsaul episode The 55-year-old MLA said Jewar is primarily an agriculture-dominated area and the process of industrialisation may pose challenges for the natives to find jobs locally when the companies come in But we have already taken this situation into consideration and made arrangements for that through the local Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority YEIDA so that 40 per cent of the jobs are given to the local people in any case Singh said He said a memorandum of understanding MoU will be signed whenever land is allotted to any industrialist and that the focusing is on getting projects like the Apparel Park which have work opportunities for native women Separately we know that an airport will give rise to several allied job requirements which require basic level of training I will have such skills identified and arrangement for training of local people before the airport starts functioning so that they get work there Thats the plan he said He said Jewar will have Pod Taxis metro rail connectivity in future while plans are afoot to connect the Yamuna Expressway with the expressway to Mumbai multiple roads to Haryana and the high-speed train bullet train will reduce travel time to Lucknow to just two hours If we leave the water ways this airport will have an exceptional road rail and air connectivity Jewar has potential to become aviation hub Singh said He said an international airport will help the regions people and their development The way international companies are investing in Jewar and planning to do it in future since the announcement of the airport project no doubt we have to speed up that pace of work without any obstruction now with the help of local people and farmers he said We cannot create jobs without industrial development which is why the focus will be on having big industries starting their projects in Jewar so that the living standards of the people goes up farmers progress women youth and workers get work opportunities he said Singh recalled Jewar did not have any degree college for girls since Independence but the state government has approved three of them in the past five years He said in the absence of such facilities in the constituency girls found it difficult to pursue higher education after completing their Class 12 Two of the degree colleges--a co-education institute and one for girls--have been made while another for girls has been approved by the state government and will start functioning soon he added Singh said a major trauma centre and a multi-specialty hospital have also been approved by the chief minister which would come up along the Yamuna Expressway The objective is to ensure that the kind of chaos we witnessed during the COVID-19 pandemic does not repeat My aim is to ensure that the poor people get easy access to good quality health care at low cost so that no life is lost because of inaccessibility to health care he said Health and education will be my priority Enabling employment opportunities to local residents through industries is also on my priority list in the second term Singh said adding his monitoring team will work to make sure the schemes of Centre and state government reach the last person He said the way Jewar has emerged on global map on the back of the international airport project his dream is to make it the most developed constituency of Uttar Pradesh in the next five years I want respect for the people of Jewar and also the constituency to become a medium for people across the country to find jobs here he added PTI KIS RDK RDK

Noida Jan 21 PTI The nomination process for Uttar Pradesh assembly polls from Noida Dadri and Jewar constituencies in Gautam Buddh Nagar ended on Friday with 52 nominees putting forth their candidature officials saidOfficials said 23 nominations have been filed from Noida 16 from Dadri and 13 from JewarAmong those who have filed nominations are all three BJPs sitting MLAs Pankaj Singh from Noida Tejpal Nagar from Dadri and Dhirendra Singh from JewarThe three assembly seats will go to polls on February 10 during the first phase of the electionsThe scrutiny of nominations to these will take place on January 24 while the last date for withdrawal of candidature is January 27 officials saidThe nomination process as instructed by the Election Commission was completed in Gautam Buddh Nagar today under District Magistrate Suhas L Yathiraj who is also the District Election Officer District Information Officer Rakesh Singh Chauhan saidA total of 52 candidates have filed nominations from the three assembly seats in the district Of these 23 nominations are in Noida 16 in Dadri and 13 in Jewar Chauhan saidAccording to district officials Gautam Buddh Nagar has 1623 lakh enrolled voters In terms of assembly seats Noida has 690 lakh voters Dadri has 586 lakh and Jewar 346 lakh votersNomination process for the 58 assembly constituencies that are going to polls during the first of the seven phases in the state ended on Friday PTI KIS SRY

Noida Jan 20 PTI Bharatiya Janata Party BJP leader Dhirendra Singh on Thursday filed his nomination for the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls from Jewar constituency which he had won in the 2017 elections The 55-year-old Singh is known among others for his key role in getting through the negotiations with farmers for the Greenfield Noida International Airport in the Gautam Buddh Nagar district in western Uttar Pradesh Today filed the nomination as a candidate for Jewar Vidhan Sabha constituency in the Surajpur Collectorate Greater Noida he said in a tweet in Hindi So far at least eight other candidates including Congresss Manoj Chaudhary and BSPs Narendra Bhati have filed their nominations from the Jewar seat which goes to polls on February 10 Singh had started his political journey with the Congress and shot to limelight during the Bhatta-Parsaul episode which is considered to have paved the way for amendments to the Land Acquisition Act in the country in 2013 He later joined the BJP and won the election from Jewar in 2017 winning nearly 50 per cent of the total votes polled that year and defeated sitting MLA Bahujan Samaj Partys Vedram Bhati This time Jewar has 346 lakh voters PTI KIS CK

Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 29 (ANI): More than Rs 21.71 crores has been provided as a subsidy to a total of 42 filmmakers including 22 Bhojpuri and 20 Hindi movies under the Film Bandhu scheme of the Uttar Pradesh government on the second day of Kashi Film Festival.

Noida Nov 25 PTI The Noida International Airport in Jewar will transform the region which has been considered backward in terms of development until recently local MLA Dhirendra Singh said on ThursdayEarlier Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the Greenfield airport which is billed to be Asias biggest airport upon completion and expected to bring in investments worth over Rs 30000 crore in the regionSingh who has been credited with successfully negotiating land acquisition dialogues with local villagers for the airport said the project will usher in development and industrialisation in Jewar some 75 km off Delhi in western Uttar PradeshI want to thank all the people of Jewar Your support has made this day possible Your participation in todays programme with the prime minister and the chief minister Yogi Adityanath has been witnessed by all the BJP MLA saidThis region was backward and bereft of resources for employment This international airport which is going to be Asias biggest will open doors of development for Jewar he saidSingh who himself drove a tractor to the foundation-laying programme leading a convoy of supporters also lauded the locals for their enthused participation at the ceremony where several women were seen dancing to devotional tunesCivil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia who was at the foundation-laying event said the airport will fetch investments of over Rs 30000 crore and generate one lakh job opportunitiesThe airport is to be developed in an area of 5000 hectares with an overall estimated cost of Rs 30000 crore by Swiss concessionaire Zurich International Airports subsidiary Yamuna International Airport Private Limited YIAPL according to officialsThe first phase of the airport is to be developed in an area of over 1300 hectares at a cost of over Rs 10000 crore and should open for operations by September 2024 the officials saidThe land for the first phase of the project has been acquired under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013The law was formed after a major and acquisition controversy involving protests against the UP government in 2011 at the adjoining villages of Bhatta and Parsaul in Greater NoidaThe violence during the episode infamously remembered as the Bhatta-Parsaul case had led to death of three people close to Jewar where the airport is being developed According to the new law consent of more than 70 per cent villagers was required for the state government to move ahead with the land acquisition for the airport but negotiations often hit roadblock and the MLA played a key role in winning the support of villagers for the greenfield project according to people privy to the development PTI KIS ZMN

New Delhi Sep 27 PTI The CBI on Monday claimed to have found assets worth over Rs 265 crore during searches at the premises of AIIMS Bhopal Deputy Director Dhirendra Singh who was arrested for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs two lakh The agency said it has recovered Rs675 lakh approx in cash Rs 111 crorein bank deposits in various accounts in the name of the accused and his family members besides Mutual Fund and shares worth Rs 7920 lakh In addition gold coins and a bar of 465 grams worth over Rs 21 lakh approximately as per present rates and documents related to properties have also been seized by the agency officials said Singh was arrested for allegedly seeking a bribe of Rs two lakh for clearing payment of pending bills on account of supplies ofmedicines and other consumables made to AIIMS Bhopal by the complainant they said He was sent to CBI custody till October 1 they said The complainant a chemist who supplied medicines and hospital consumables to the AIIMS had approached the CBI alleging that Deputy Director administration Singh had asked for five percent commission or Rs 2 lakh to clear bills of Rs 40 lakh Singh was allegedly caught red-handed on September 25 while receiving Rs one lakh of the total bribe amount the CBI had said in a statement Following the arrest the CBI sleuths had carried out searches at his premises PTI ABS RT RT

Noida Sep 20 PTI Previous governments had used force to acquire land while the current Yogi Adityanath-led regime in Uttar Pradesh got it done without any ruckus BJP leader and Jewar MLA Dhirendra Singh said on Monday Singh was referring to the recent acquisition of land from villagers in his constituency for the proposed greenfield Noida International Airport and the Bhatta-Parsaul episode a decade ago when the region witnessed violence over land acquisition Presenting the report card of the BJP governments four-and-a-half-year tenure the MLA said Jewar predominantly a rural area has transformed during this period with more industrial investment coming into the region and improvement in law and order situation In the previous governments regime bullets were fired to acquire land while today such a huge land acquisition for the airport took place but there was no ruckus Singh told reporters at a conference held at the Yamuna Expressway Authoritys office He said a metro will soon connect Greater Noida and Jewar Big firms have established their companies in Jewar due to which the means of employment are going to open soon and women will also get employment in the Apparel Park while the clothes made there will help Jewar make a mark in the world he added The land for setting up a Skill Development University has also been received and soon the youth of the area will start getting training here Singh said He said law and order situation has also improved in Jewar with the setting up of the commissionerate system of policing in Gautam Buddh Nagar district There was also no college in Jewar in last 74 years but now work is underway for three such institutes in the region the BJP MLA added PTI KIS AAR AAR