Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 26 (ANI): In a pro-farmer move, for the first time, the Yogi-led government in Uttar Pradesh is going to buy 'bajra' (pearl millet) along with maize and paddy at the Minimum Support Price in the Kharif marketing year 2022-23.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 2 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday directed officials to prepare the plan for creating an Uttar Pradesh State Capital Region (UPSCR) comprising districts like Unnao, Sitapur, Rae Bareli, Barabanki and Kanpur on the lines of the National Capital Region (NCR).

New Delhi [India], June 19 (ANI): Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi called on President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 6 (ANI): President Ram Nath Kovind attended a special joint session of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Monday.

Kanpur Dehat (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 3 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that he hopes for a strong opposition in the country and that the parties which are entangled in nepotism, should rise above it, to strengthen democracy.

Kanpur Dehat (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 3 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accompanied President Ram Nath Kovind to his ancestral village, Paraunkh, in Kanpur Dehat of Uttar Pradesh.

New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): President Ram Nath Kovind will visit Uttar Pradesh from June 3 to 6, 2022, the President's Secretariat informed on Thursday.

New Delhi [India], June 2 (ANI): The President of India Ram Nath Kovind is scheduled to visit Uttar Pradesh on Friday, for his four-day trip.

Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 29 (ANI): One worker died and four were injured due to a blast at a boiler factory in Uttar Pradesh's Rania on Saturday night.

Lucknow Apr 19 PTI After a four-decade-long wait 63 Hindu families displaced from East Pakistan were given houses agricultural land and residential plots by the Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday Each family was given two acres for agriculture purposes a residential plot measuring 200 sq metres and a house in Kanpur Dehat district Speaking on the occasion Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath held previous governments responsible for the plight of such families All these families had migrated from East Pakistan now called Bangladesh in 1970s and were given jobs in a yarn mill in Hastinapur town of Meerut district he said The CM said the yarn mill closed down 1984 and some of them were rehabilitated while 65 families kept waiting for their rehabilitation Your 38-year-long wait is over today the CM said in the presence of Deputy CMs Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak and Jal Shakti Minister Swatantra Dev Singh I am happy while granting two acres of land 200 sq metres residential patta to each of the 63 families in the Rasulabad area of Kanpur Dehat district he said adding that each family is being given a house under the chief ministers housing scheme Targeting previous regimes Adityanath said people used to go to them but insensitive governments never took them seriously He asked why their sufferings did not reach who talked about the poor and why they did not do any work for the people of Musahar rat eaters caste or why people from Vantangiya villages in eastern Uttar Pradesh had been left to fend for themselves Citing achievements of his government the CM said We converted 38 villages of Vantangiya into revenue villages and they voted for the first time in the Assembly elections after the Independence Originally brought from Myanmar for afforestation activities during the British period the Vantangiya community has been living in forests since then without any modern development as their villages lacked the revenue village status that makes them eligible for welfare schemes After becoming the UP chief minister in 2017 Adityanath had granted the revenue village status to many Vantangiya people Elaborating on efforts of his government he said When Prime Minister Narendra Modi passed the order to give citizenship to the minorities migrating from Pakistan Afghanistan and Bangladesh we started searching for such people in UP also and traced the families He termed this as an unprecedented example of Indias service to humanity The benefits are meant for 63 families but the population of 400 is going to be directly benefited by this he said Adityanath said so far 108 lakh houses have been provided such families PTI AR SAB SNS RDK