The story of Uttar Pradesh’s transformation, writes Yogi Adityanath
Hindustan TimesAs our government completes three years in power in Uttar Pradesh today, it is time to look at the numerous challenges we faced and how the government overcame them. Through Operation Kayakalp, basic facilities such as providing boundary walls, toilets, drinking water, and electrification have been undertaken in 92,000 primary schools One challenge was to bring the marginalised and poor into the mainstream. Working on the target set by the prime minister of doubling farmers’ income by 2022, the state government has implemented several schemes such as providing soil health cards to more than 40 million farmers. It is a matter of personal satisfaction for me that Uttar Pradesh became the first state to implement the skill development policy, state health policy and declare human-wildlife conflict a disaster. It also bagged nine awards under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, seven under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, two under the Rurban Mission, one under the Livelihood Mission, one under the Gram Swaraj Abhiyan and one under the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj.