Lucknow Apr 18 PTI Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna on Monday said despite the difficult situation amid the COVID-19 pandemic the states gross state domestic product GSDP increased by 40 per cent in the last five yearsDespite the COVID-19 pandemic Uttar Pradesh has achieved much better financial management In the year 2016-17 when the BJP government was formed in the state the GSDP of the state was Rs 1247 lakh crore At present it has reached the level of Rs 1749 lakh crore In this way there has been an increase of about 40 per cent in the last five years Khanna told reporters hereAlong with this the credit deposit ratio of the state has also increased When the BJP government came to power five years ago this ratio was 46 per cent and now it has increased by six per cent he notedThe minister said that the 100 days programme announced by his department includes a loan disbursal of Rs 21 thousand crore to the eligible people under various heads and this work has already startedIn the next six months a loan of Rs 51000 crore and in the next five years Rs 2 lakh crore would be disbursed he saidMore than 90 thousand banking outlets have been opened in the state during the last five years which also include Bank Mitras and Bank Sakhis he saidAbout 114882 Bank Mitras and Bank Sakhis help the general public in this banking system the minister addedAt present there are 19056 bank branches in Uttar Pradesh and in this way there is a total of 133938 banking outlets in the stateTo increase the banking facility in the state the government has decided to set up 700 bank branches and 700 ATMs in the coming days the minister saidKhanna said that digital transactions have also improved in Uttar Pradesh In 2021-22 till December digital transactions of Rs 268 crore were done which was only Rs 12284 crore in the year 2017-18He also said that there has also been a significant increase in the number of bank accounts in the state through the Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan YojanaIn this case Uttar Pradesh is at the number one spot he addedThere are seven crore 90 lakh beneficiaries of this scheme in the state till 2022 whereas five years ago their number was four crore 47 lakh At present an amount of Rs 33493 crore is deposited in Jan Dhan accounts in the stateKhanna said that the scheme for street vendors under the Prime Minister Svanidhi was the most successful in Uttar Pradesh Apart from this the state also topped in Atal Pension Yojana PTI SLM SAB BAL BAL

Lucknow Mar 24 PTI Yogi Adityanath was on Thursday unanimously chosen as the leader of the BJP legislature party in Uttar Pradesh in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah BJPs central observer Raghubar Das Nishad Party leader Sanjay Nishad Ashish Patel of the Apna Dal S later presented support letters to Governor Anandiben Patel Now the Governor will invite him Yogi Adityanath to form the government We have presented her the support letter Acting Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma told reporters Senior party leader Suresh Kumar Khanna said Adityanath will be meet the Governor after an hour The BJP-led had won 273 of 403 seats in the just-concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls While the BJP got 255 seats its allies Nishad Party and the Apna Dal S bagged 18 Adityanaths swearing-in ceremony will be held on Friday in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top BJP leaders There is however no confirmation about names of his deputies and the number of ministers in his second term The meeting of the newly elected party MLAs was held at Lok Bhawan here in which the name of Adityanath was proposed for the post of the leader of the BJP legislature party by Suresh Kumar Khanna Baby Rani Maurya Surya Pratap Shahi and others seconded the proposal Apna Dal S leader Ashish Patel and Nishad Party chief Sanjay Nishad were present with their MLAs in the meeting Adityanath said thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi partys central observers Shah and Raghubar Das Adityanath said he had no administrative experience when he became chief minister for the first time but PM Modi and Shah guided him to provide good governance in Uttar Pradesh The barrier that was seen in the implementation of schemes of the Centre in the state collapsed in the past five years he said People for the first time felt that houses for the poor could also be built For the first time it was felt that money can go directly into the account of the poor he said In a state like Uttar Pradesh festivals can now be celebrated in a peaceful manner he added Adityanath said the prime ministers mantra of sabka saath sabka vikas made an impact despite the opposition propaganda People rose above casteism and supported nationalism development and good governance he said referring to the results of the Assembly polls On the occasion Amit Shah hailed Adityanath saying no party returned to power in UP in 37 years Uttar Pradesh faced political instability for a long time due to casteist and dynastic parties Shah said He added that the BJPs victory in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in UP since 2014 established that people favoured politics of performance and not that of casteism and appeasement In the past 37 years no party got full majority again in Uttar Pradesh It is historic that the BJP is the only party which got over two-third seats for the second consecutive time Shah said referring to the Assembly polls No Chief Minister could get peoples support and become CM again But the people of the state elected Yogi again for the second time he said Shah said in 2014 when Narendra Modi became the partys PM face he sensed the support of the public and the party won 63 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state At that time we realised that we can win over 300 seats in UP in 2017 We tried to work for everyone but before 2017 under the rule of Samajwadi Party this could not be done because of politicisation of administration and criminalisation of politics he said We managed to secure a historic victory in 2019 and then in 2022 Whenever history will be written one will have to write about what happened in between 2017 and 2022 in UP he said referring to the previous Lok Sabha and Assembly polls Shah also credited Adityanath with ending politicisation of the administration and decriminalisation of politics The BJP government and Adityanath worked on the formula of sabka saath sabka vikas and we ensured that everyone gets the benefits they are entitled to without any discrimination he claimed PTI ABN SNS RDK RDK

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 3 (ANI): State Bharatiya Janata Party manifesto committee will hold its second meeting for the preparation of the election manifesto on Saturday which would be based on the theme of 'Sabka Sath, Sabka Vishwas', said the party sources.