India Today Monday, March 13, 2023

Just after creating record by reaching at the helm of affairs of state again in March month of 2022, the Yogi Adityanath government started working on strengthening of industrialisation. It was never seen before, that to bring industrial investment; a ground breaking ceremony was organized in any state within the hundred days of the formation of the government. As soon as PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the Ground Breaking ceremony by putting his hand on the digital Kiosk, the countdown to bring the investment of 1406 projects, worth Rs. 80224 crores to the ground started. In continuation of these efforts, the Government of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath started working for organising unprecedented Global Investor Summit. The Yogi government gave a positive signal to the investors by changing and framing the 25 necessary…

“Today UP has all those things which are essential for the development of industries in any state. Now the government is taking quick decisions, the confusion in policy making has ended and the law and order and infrastructure facilities have become strong. This is a good sign for the country.”- Amit Shah, Union Home Minister and cooperative Minister The manner in which the leading business Tycoons and foreign investors showed interest in the Global Investors Summit, it approves the good governance of Yogi Adityanath government and UP has emerged as favourite destination for investors. There is a government in state which is giving good governance as well as providing political stability. State which is rich in natural resources is now a leading state with zero tolerance against corruption, biggest consumer market,…

“Currently there is a government in Uttar Pradesh which is taking decisions. The political stability is very helpful for investors. UP is capable and all set to become the growth engine of India.”- Droupadi Murmu, The President of India After organising Global investor Summit between 10th to 12th February in Lucknow and receiving the investment proposals of more than Rs 34 lakh crore, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is now preparing to implement these investment proposals. 10 country partners, more than 1000 representatives of 40 countries, 4 ministers of partner countries, 17 Union ministers, 5 ambassadors and more than 25000 delegates along with National and international investors and other dignitaries participated enthusiastically in this event. This function is going to become an important junction in making the state one trillion dollar economy. FORMATION…

1 INVEST UP 'Invest UP' has been formed on the lines of 'Invest India' to eradicate the problems related to investment and encouraging the investors. CM is head of this institution and he himself monitoring the functioning of Invest UP so that there will be no inconvenience to the investors. 2 NIVESH SARATHI Government has developed 'Nivesh Sarathi Online System' for proactive investors connect, hand holding of MoUs along with the supervision of their implementation. The system online transfers the investment proposal to the concerned department after receiving it. 3 NIVESH MITRA PORTAL All kind of approvals are being issued to the investors with this Nivesh Mitra portal only. Investors can see all the actions and procedures taken by the concerned department and government online. Once the investment proposal gets approved, all other related procedures…

Beyond the coincidental fact that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab completes a year in office in mid-March, the frontier state is in the news for all the wrong reasons. Bhagwant Mann, the voluble 49-year-old comedian-turned-politician chief minister, is confronted with disturbing scenes on the ground that make for an inflammable cocktail of politics, religion and social ferment. Without a doubt, India’s frontline state is ailing and in need of urgent corrective action. Whether you see it as a social space or, in strategic terms, as a border province, anybody who remembers what the ’80s were like would not like a rerun. Over the decades, Punjab politics was bipolar and rotated between the two dominant parties—the Akali Dal and the Congress. By and large, they governed for long stable…

The arrest of Manish Sisodia, the most high-profile minister in Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s cabinet, is perhaps the biggest political crisis to hit the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) since its inception in 2012. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested the Delhi deputy CM on February 26 for alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped liquor excise policy of 2021-22. The agency alleges that Sisodia, as excise minister, took “arbitrary and unilateral decisions” causing “huge financial losses to the exchequer” and benefiting private players. AAP, refuting the charges, accuses the Narendra Modi government of using the CBI for political vendetta. Sisodia is the second minister in Kejriwal’s cabinet to be arrested by a central agency. Last June, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Satyendar Jain, another heavyweight minister,…