UP’s dismal performance on the health front has been sliding further with scams in its NRHM implementation, murders of senior health officials

The public-private partnership (PPP) model will soon permeate the rickety health-sector in Uttar Pradesh. Under the top-down approach, the state government would rollout diagnostic centres at the district headquarters level and percolate to community healthcare centres.

It comes after a gap of eight years succeeding the UP Industrial and Service Sector Investment Policy 2004

The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet, in its pursuit to iron out regional industrial imbalance and attract fresh investment, on Tuesday gave its nod and cleared the New Industrial & Infrastructure Investment Policy 2012. The policy is aimed at ameliorating the ills of traditional industries scattered across the state and energising the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) base estimated at over 3 million units.

Water supply within Noida is set to improve in drastically with the putting in place a separate power feed for its water distribution system.

Lucknow Land acquisition hurdles have claimed yet another road project in Uttar Pradesh. The R1100-crore Agra Inner Ring Road project, which was given to Jaypee Infratech three years ago, has been shelved by the Akhilesh Yadav government because the land-for-development model for the plan was not working out.

In a meeting chaired by the UP CM on Wednesday, it was decided in principle that the concessionaire agreement between the Agra Development Authority (ADA) — the nodal agency of the housing department — and Jaypee would be cancelled and a fresh process would be initiated for the construction of the 30-km-long road on competitive bidding.

Lucknow Uttar Pradesh’s tryst with power reforms seems to have boomeranged. Close on the heels of Coalgate, which has had the Central government scurrying for cover, a report by the state accountant general (AG) has alleged irregularities in the appointment of Torrent Power (TPL) as the power distribution franchisee (DF) for Agra.

The report also states that the appointment was done with complete disregard to the tendering procedure and has already caused a loss of R489.89 crore to the state exchequer in the first two years since the city was handed over to the company in 2010.

Biomass energy has caught the fancy of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.

Yadav has directed officials to conduct a state-wide survey to ascertain places, where biomass power plants could be established. This would promote green energy and help power-starved UP to tide over the crisis to some extent, said Akhilesh. Stressing on finding cleaner energy sources, he directed officials to speed up the work towards biomass power plants. He observed that such units, if set up across UP, would not only supplement power availability, but conserve environment.

How the battle that won India’s war against polio was fought in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh

UP government on Monday gave in principle approval to construction of an expressway between Lucknow and Agra.

With a view to prevent land agitations, the Bharatiya Kisan Sangharsh Samiti has written to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and the CEO of Greater Noida Authority, asking for pubic hear

The six-lane expressway will cost Rs.9,500 crore

Within a week of the 165-km Noida-Agra Yamuna expressway becoming operational, another expressway, from Agra to Lucknow, has been proposed by the Samajwadi Party Government here. A presentation of the proposed 274-km Agra-Lucknow Greenfield Expressway was made before Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday.