Lucknow Apr 25 PTI Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday directed officials to provide uninterrupted power supply in the stateHe said arrangements should also be made for additional units of electricity to maintain uninterrupted power supplyHe was addressing officials during a meeting of the electricity department at the Lok Bhavan hereElectricity is needed the most in the summer season and hence uninterrupted power supply according to the roster should be maintained the chief minister said Problems arising out of transformer malfunction or damage of electricity wires should be immediately addressed Adityanath saidThe chief minister also observed that snapping the power connection for non-payment of electricity bill is not the solution and said a dialogue should be established with the consumer and he should be motivated to pay the billBetter and effective systems should be evolved for collection of electricity bills and women self-help groups should also be roped in for bill collection the chief minister saidSmart meters should be installed timely in urban areas he addedThe chief minister said continuous coal availability should be made for electricity production and for this talks should be held regularly with the CentreThe work of laying electricity cables underground should be expedited in a time-bound manner he said PTI NAV TDS TDS

Lucknow Apr 20 PTI Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday directed officials to take strict action against illegal occupants of any land be it government or private without discrimination During the presentation of an action plan by the department of rural development before the council of ministers here Adityanath said Whether the land is owned by the government or a private entity the strictest action should be taken against illegal occupants without discrimination Stressing that an encroachment of land is a factor of big disputes in the villages he said illegal encroachments should be investigated and action should be taken The chief minister directed that block development officers tehsildars and sub-divisional magistrates should stay at their places of postings It is fine if there is a government residence otherwise arrange for rented accommodation he said Stressing on making the tehsil administration responsible transparent and corruption free Adityanath said a separate portal should be developed for receiving complaints of corruption Under this a panel of 50 officers should be formed to investigate complaints of corruption he said adding that arrangements should be made for online filing of suits The chief minister also directed that efforts should be initiated to cover 13 lakh families under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Rural and 15 lakh families under Mukhyamantri Awas Yojana Rural in the direction of providing houses to every homeless person In the financial years 2020-21 and 2021-22 Uttar Pradesh has ranked first in the country in providing employment to the maximum number of families he claimed The chief minister directed that the work of setting up two hi-tech nurseries in every district should be ensured through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee ActMGNREGA with one nursery producing 15 lakh saplingsBefore the monsoon de-silting of the drains should be ensured and arrangement for rainwater harvesting should also be made in the villages he said In the next hundred days rivers should be revived under MGNREGA and plantation should be done as per requirement Adityanath saidThe chief minister asked the officials to work with the goal of constructing 15000 sports grounds and rejuvenating 30000 ponds in the next two years PTI SAB KVK KVK

Lucknow Mar 30 PTI Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday asked senior state officials to fix the accountability of employees and said the delay in the delivery of services wont be tolerated The CM ordered that all heads of departments should make surprise inspections to check cleanliness in office files pending for disposal attendance of staff and their punctuality an officials statement said here With good governance being an important narrative in the just-concluded Assembly elections Adityanath at the very outset of his new term stressed on expeditious delivery of services Considering the fact that physical classes are not taking place in schools across the state for the past two years Adityanath instructed officials to launch a comprehensive School Chalo Abhiyan He said the campaign must be planned in consultation with the minister concerned to ensure not a single child is deprived of school The CM asked officials to ensure that children come to school in proper uniform considering that the money for uniforms was deposited in bank account of their parents Regarding wheat procurement which is scheduled to begin from April 1 the CM asked officials to ensure all facilities are made available to farmers at procurement centres Farmers must also get the benefit of the minimum support price he told officials adding they should make arrangements for the storage of procured wheat and prevent waste Adityanath ordered to make arrangements to prevent damage to wheat crop by accidental fires and provide relief to even those farmers not covered under the Crop Insurance Scheme To give a boost to investment in the state the CM told officials to provide incentives to industrial units investing in UP In the wake of hot weather the CM asked officials to make arrangements of potable water in all 75 districts of the state PTI CDN SNS RDK

Lucknow Mar 28 PTI Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday allocated portfolios in his 53-member ministry keeping the departments of Home Vigilance and Personnel with him Altogether 34 departments remain with him Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya has been allocated six departments -- Rural Development Rural Engineering Food Processing Entertainment Tax Public Enterprise and National Integration The Public Works Department which Maurya headed in the previous ministry has been given to Jitin Prasada this time In addition to the chief minister a total 52 ministers of different ranks were administered oath on March 25 here All of them were distributed responsibilities on Monday According to the list of portfolios released here another Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak will head Medical Education Medical and Health and Family Welfare departments Cabinet Minister Suresh Khanna will continue to look after Finance and Parliamentary Affairs departments like in the previous ministry while Surya Pratap Shahi was given Agriculture Agriculture Education and research departments State BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh who has been inducted in the Adityanath 20 government got Jal Shakti and Flood Control Baby Rani Maruya got women welfare and Child Development departments IAS-turned-politician Arvind Kumar Sharma a confidante of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been given Urban Development Energy among five departments Among allies while Nishad Party president Sanjay Nishad got Fisheries the Apna Dal Sonelal leader Ashish Patel was given Technical Education department Among Ministers of State MoS with independent charge former IPS officer Asim Arun will head Social welfare SCST welfare departments Among other MoS independent charge Sandip Singh grandson of BJP veteran Kalyan Singh will take care of Basic Education while Daya Shankar Singh gets Transport Danish Azad Ansari the lone muslim minister in the MoS rank has been allocated Minorities Welfare besides Waqf and Haj departments The only sikh minister of the same MOS rank Baldev Singh Aulakh got Agriculture and Agriculture Education According to constitutional provisions there can be a maximum of 60 ministers in Uttar Pradesh including the chief minister PTI ABN SNS CK

Lucknow Mar 27 PTI The Uttar Pradesh Congress on Sunday elected Aradhana Shukla Mona as its legislature party leaderMona is the daughter of Congress leader Pramod TiwariMona was appointed CLP leader by Congress president Sonia Gandhi according to a letter sent to the Rampur Khas MLA by party national general secretary K C VenugopalThe Congress won only two seats in the 403-member Uttar Pradesh Assembly in the recent electionsBesides Mona Virendra Chaudhary had won from the Pharenda seat in Maharajganj district PTI ABN DIV DIV

Lucknow Mar 23 PTI Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel on Wednesday appointed senior BJP leader Ramapati Shastri as the pro-tem speaker of the state Legislative Assembly Shastri who is a BJP MLA from Mankapur in Gonda district will administer the oath to newly elected legislators Shastri has been appointed the pro-tem speaker by the Governor Assembly Principal Secretary Pradeep Kumar Dubey said Shashtri is an eight-time MLA PTI ABN SNS RDK RDK

Lucknow Feb 21 PTI Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday described the bulldozer as a UP government brand saying it is effective both for building expressway and running over the mafia The UP authorities have been using bulldozers to demolish illegal buildings constructed by criminals and Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav had earlier called the CM bulldozer baba Attacking the Samajwadi Party SP during an election meeting Adityanath said his government has created a new brand Bulldozer is effective for expressway and also to run over the mafia he said Adityanath said the state does not need those who dream but a government that moves forward with a firm resolve He also accused the previous SP government of withdrawing cases against those involved in acts of terror The UP chief minister under the BJP rule rioters wont have the courage to incite violence PTI NAV RDK RDK

Lucknow Feb 18 PTI Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday alleged that the father of a convict in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blast case is campaigning for the Samajwadi Party in Assembly pollsHe alleged the Samajwadi Party was protecting terroristsA special court on Friday sentenced to death 38 members of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen in the 2008 serial blasts which killed 56 people and injured over 200Adityanath termed the courts verdict historic and claimed that of the 38 condemned to death one is from Sanjarpur in AzamgarhThe father of this terrorist is linked to the Samajwadi Party and is campaigning for it in the assembly election claimed the chief minister who addressed polls meetings in Kanpur and LucknowAdityanath claimed that no terrorist incident has taken place in the last five years The biggest reason for this was that terrorists knew they and also those sheltering them will not be allowed to go scot-free The BJP government respects all faith and also takes full care of security he saidThere used to be Saifai festival under the Samajwadi Partys rule But during our government there are grand events like Chhath Puja Rangotsav in Mathura and Vrindavan Dev Deepawali and Kumbh In Karhal the public is going to ensure that they the BJPs rivals forfeit their security deposit Adityanath saidSamajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav is in the fray from Karhal seat where polling is scheduled on Sunday PTI SAB NSD NSD

Agra Jan 31 PTI Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday on Friday alleged that the previous SP governments pushed the state into violence as he held the party responsible for the Muzaffarnagar riots and the killing of devotees of Lord Ram in the past He said this referring to the firing on kar sevaks in 1990 during the Samajwadi Party SP In the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots over 60 people were killed and scores others injured The caps of the Samajwadi Party are painted with the blood of two innocent Jat youths who died in the Muzaffarnagar riots he alleged referring to an incident which triggered the violence between Jats and Muslims SPs hands are smeared with the blood and they are also responsible for the killing of Ram bhakts in Ayodhya They had pushed the state into the flames of riots Adityanath alleged Adityanath also slammed the Samajwadi Party for naming institutions after Mughal ruler Aurangzeb He said In the previous government institutions were named after Aurangzeb In Agra they had named a museum after Aurangzeb But when the BJP government came into power it renamed the Mughal museum after Chhatrapati Shivaji he added While addressing people of the Fatehpur Sikri a Jat dominated area Adityanath claimed that Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav did not respect Gokula Jat a community leader who had fought against the Mughals He further said during the BJP ruling people are being given free ration while during the previous regime foodgrain used to be supplied to criminals Even during the BSP rule ration meant for the poor used to be gulped by elephants he mocked the party referring to its symbol Taking a dig on the list of candidates declared by the Samajwadi Party Adityanath said after giving tickets to criminals and goons they want to push the state into violence But I assure you the mafias will be thinking about their future after March 10 The double-engine government of the BJP would again run bulldozer on their illegal income he said referring the date when the election results of the Assembly polls are to be announced The criminals will hang placards around their neck and beg for mercy outside police stations he said Attacking the SP the chief minister said during their rule only walls of graveyards were erected but the BJP government developed religious places PTI COR RDK RDK

Ghaziabad Jan 29 PTI Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday accused the Samajwadi Party for instigating 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots and helping culprits get away with the crime under its watch In Muzaffarnagar 62 people were killed and scores others were injured during the riots between Muslims and Jats Adityanath said Gaurav and Sachin two of the victims were killed only because they had objected to harassment of their niece The party whose caps are coloured by the blood of farmers and innocent Ram devotees are pleading for harmony he said He also said those who fired at disciples of Lord Ram have no right to seek votes from people referring to the incident of firing at kar sevaks in 1990 ordered by Mulayam Singh government in the state He alleged the SP has fielded candidates who are responsible for Kairana exodus Siyana disturbance and Muzaffarnagar riots Adityanath claimed that criminals in the state will be put behind the bars after March 10 when BJP comes to power again Such criminals will sell vegetables on the roads but would not dare to touch any businessman he said PTI COR VN VN