UP Assembly adopted resolutions in naming civil air terminal in Kanpur on the name of freedom fighter Ganesh Shanker Vidyarthi and in Bareilly as Nath Nagri.
Civil Aviation Minister Nand Gopal Gupta alias Nandi piloted both the resolutions in the Assembly during Zero Hour . Both the resolutions were unanimously adopted by the house. The opposition benches were empty as they have announced to boycott the proceedings of the house for the rest of the budget session.
The Minister said the civil air terminal in Kanpur be named on great freedom fighter Ganesh Shanker Vidyarthi, who stayed in Kanpur to fight the British regime through his writing in the media. The industries minister Satish Mahana supported the resolution, who is a native of Kanpur and MlA from the Maharajganj assembly constituency.
In another resolution, the Civil Aviation Minister said the Bareilly civil air terminal should be named as Nath Nagri. Bareilly is known for its rich culture and existence of Akhlakh Nath, Trivati Nath, Gopeshwar Nath, Tapeshwar Nath, Pashupati Nath temples in the region shows its strong relation with Nath sect. Finance Minister Rajesh Agarwal, who represents Bareilly, also supported the resolution. Both the resolutions were earlier approved by the state cabinet earlier.
Earlier during the question hour the government claimed that there is no shortage of power in the state. The government announced that the UP power corporation limited will provide details of the power supplied by each feeder in each district to all legislators in the state. The announcement was made by Power Minister Srikant Sharma in the assembly on a question of BJP member R K Verma.
The Minister said there is big gap between the power supplied and the power reaching the consumer end. The power distribution infrastructure is weak and dilapidated leading to overloading and blasting of the transformers.
The Minister said the UPPCl has made elaborate plans for ensuring round the clock power supply across the state by March 2019 as per the `Power for al’ MOU signed by the state government with the Un ion power ministry. He said that against the demand of 16,000 to 19,500 megawatt power per day in the state, the state was supplying to meet the demand. The state is getting 11,000 mw from PSU thermal power generation stations, 2471 mw purchased through bidding, 5000 megawatt received from Central pool besides purchase additional power from the power exchange as per the requirement.
He said the government has fixed the demand and supply of power in the state till 2021-22 and has arranged for 24 hours power. In 20171-18 against the demand of 17,934 mw, the availability will be 20,790 mw, in 2018-19 against the demand of 18,918 mw, availability will be 22,143 mw, in 2019-20 the availability will be 23,498 mw against the demand of 21,095, in 2020-21 against the demand of 22,886 mw, the available power will be 25,242 mw and in 2021-22 against the demand of 24,777 mw the availability will be 26,585 mw.