The UP have ranked at second place in the country for utilising funds allocated under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) which tantamount 85 percent more in comparison to previous year's record.
With an aim to protect bio-diversity, the UP Government has formulated State Bio-diversity Board that would provide the technical know-how to different organisations in identifying and protecting the State
Uttar Pradesh has struck riches in the rugged badlands of Bundelkhand. Geologists have found mines of diamond, platinum and gold raising hopes that the region could one day turn into the proverbial El Dorado thereby alleviate the plight of the locals ravaged by drought for years.
Uttar Pradesh (UP) is all set to acquire automatic weather stations equipped with sensors thereby making weather forecasting farmer friendly. The unique facility will be put to use for the first time in India on the lines of Australia and USA.
Alleging gross swindling of funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) in UP, Congress national general Digvijay Singh claimed to have thrashed out a one-year programme to expose the corruption in which Chief Minister Mayawati and her cabinet colleagues allegedly indulged.
The sleuths of the Special Task Force (STF) arrested two persons in Meerut and claimed to have busted a gang of skin poachers on Friday. They said that two skins of leopard were recovered from possession of the held accused along with two mobile phones. A case under various Sections of Wildlife Protection Act 1972 has been registered against them and they were send to jail.
For private sugar mills, which have huge consignments of raw sugar lying dumped at ports in Gujarat, the wait is finally over. The Mayawati government has finally agreed to lift the ban on transportation of raw sugar in UP. Now mill owners can bring the raw sugar to UP and order fresh imports from March, when the current crushing season ends.
The president of the Rastriya Lok Dal (RLD), Choudhary Ajit Singh assailed the state government for acquiring numerous villages and cultivable land in the name of industrialisation and development and warned that his party would bring a private bill in the Lok Sabha to introduce a new Land Acquisition Policy.
The state government admitted in Vidhan Sabha on Monday that ground water in three districts had arsenic which was posing health hazards to the people of that region.
