Surat Mar 27 PTI Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel on Sunday said nobody can break the Modi-Yogi pair and added that the BJP retained power in UP with the support of a lot of people including a large number north Indians settled in Gujarats Surat She was referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath who took oath as the Uttar Pradesh chief minister for a second term at a ceremony held on Friday which was attended by the PM In the UP Assembly polls held earlier this year the BJP-led alliance has won 273 of 403 seats While the BJP got 255 seats its allies Nishad Party and the Apna Dal S bagged 18 This is the first time in over three decades that a party has won the assembly elections twice in a row in the crucial state We have formed the government in Uttar Pradesh friends Nobody can break the Modi-Yogi pairnobody can do this A lot of people have given their support to achieve this Several people from here Surat went there UP for campaigning she said This is after 35 years that one party returned to power for a second term in a row creating history she added For this you must congratulate usA large number of north Indians are settled in Surat and they have supported us to achieve this the former Gujarat chief minister said Patel was in Surat to lay the foundation stone for Kiran Medical College being set up by Samast Patidar Arogya Trust at Vadod in Olpad taluka of the district Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel were also present on the occasion Stating that India lags behind in the field of research she suggested that the proposed college should have a dedicated department for this purpose India rose to the occasion to carry out research and came out with a vaccine against COVID-19 the UP governor added She also stressed the need for girls to get vaccinated against cervical cancer A new vaccine against cervical cancer has entered the market As of now it is very costly I have been told that the price of this vaccine will come down in the range of Rs 100 to Rs 300 by August-September Whenever this vaccine is available I request you to get your daughters in the age group of 9 to 14 vaccinated against cervical cancer I have started this vaccination work in UP irrespective of the price the vaccine she said In his address Mandaviya said the country is committed to provide quality education to students From 55000 seats for the MBBS course in 2014 the number has grown to 92000 in seven years which keeps increasing he said In the past people were concerned about getting permission for setting up a medical collegeBut we have provided relaxation in all the rules to set up a medical college There is only one rule - education should be provided to the students at a reasonable cost without fleecing them he said CM Bhupendra Patel said his government is committed to provide quality healthcare to people for which Rs 12240 crore have been allocated in the state budget for the year 2022-23 The state government is committed to set up one medical college in each district he said adding that the new services of air ambulance and green corridor have been added by the government for the treatment of patients in times of crisis PTI KA PD NP NP

Ahmedabad Feb 26 PTI Chief of Army Staff General M M Naravane on Saturday said as far as design and innovation in the fields of defence and aerospace is concerned the future is electric and miniaturisation He said that in order to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels there is a need to use electric-based things and added that ships and aircraft have to be small out of necessity in which more features need to be packed He was delivering the inaugural address at the three-day Ahmedabad Design Week organised at citys Karnavati University What is the future as far as design and innovation is concerned in the fields of defence and aerospace In this I think there are two things we have to concentrate upon One is the future is electric he said He said apart from electric vehicles EV for which the Centre has made a clear roadmap there is a need to use electric-based things that are not dependent on fossil fuel We have thousands of generators in forward areas because there is no electricity supply there These generators require fuel and to transport the fuel you require vehicles that has its cost To generate one unit of electricity in forward areas you spend 15 times the cost Can we have some alternative which can generate electricity in forward areas that are not dependent on fossil fuels he asked Future is also in miniaturisationSize of our ships aircraft have to be small out of necessity and in that small space we have to pack more and more features And therefore miniaturisation is one area in which we have to proceed he said He further called for the need to have a far-sighted development and cited the example of tanks which have remained essentially the same all these years When we now talk of design and innovation we have to leapfrog jump two-three steps ahead From a caterpillar we have to become a butterflythat is the kind of innovation and design that we are looking at he said General Naravane said the Indian Army has set up an Army Design Bureau to act as a facilitator between the designer and Army We need your help to make ourselves into a strong Army he said and added the scheme is meant to provide support to start-ups and MSMEs The Army has sought ideas under the programme called Future Ready Combat Vehicle The challenge is how we can make a tank which is radically different from what we have been used to he said He said the Army requires design for the future-ready combat vehicles that remain effective 50 years from now PTI KA PD NP NP