The Uttar Pradesh government announced in the state assembly on Thursday that 1.28 lakh jobs would be created shortly as government has signed MoUs with 20 big industrial houses to set up manufacturing units in the state. Government claimed that between August 2012 and 2014 Government had signed 22 MoUs with 20 companies and four of them started setting up their units.
Replying to a question of Shyam Deo Rai Chaudhry (BJP) State dairy development minister Ram Murti Verma that once these companies start operation it would create 1.28 lakh jobs – directly or indirectly. Many ancillary units will come up in the area and many indirect jobs would also be created, he said.
However, the minister could not give the total amount of the investment these companies are expected to make in Uttar Pradesh though he claimed that four units that have started setting up their units will invest close to Rs 6000 crore.
The four companies which have started their construction work are Sri Cement of Birla at Bulandshahr, Patwara Paper Company at Meerut, Reliance Geo at Jalaun and Sampras Food and Beverages. The other major MoUs signed by the UP government are with Kribco Shyam Fertilizer ltd, Yashoda Hospital and Research Center ltd, Ritnand Valvet Medicine Foundation, Fortes Health care ltd, Duncan Goenka, ITC ltd, Gail Gas ltd, Essal Power Group and Reliance Geo Infocom ltd.
Replying to another questions UP government refused to hike the monthly pension of Rs 300 given to around 1.31 lakh handicapped persons in the state. The government admitted that due to paucity of funds, the scheme to provide financial help to the backward families for marriage and health has been suspended in 2014-15.
Walkout: The Bahujan Samaj Party staged a walkout from the state assembly over law and order and government’s failure to control swine flu. As soon as the House assembled leader of Opposition Swamy Prasad Maurya suggested that question hour should be suspended and instead discussion should be held on deteriorating law and order situation in the state.
When speaker Mata Prasad Pandey did not buzz the party staged a walk out. Parliamentary Affairs minister Mohammad Azam Khan said that BSP was trying to create anarchy in the state and was conspiring to destabilise the SP government by inciting the people in the name of law and order. ‘’The BSP was trying to grab power by raising fake alarm over the law and order situation in the state,’’ he said.
later during question hour BSP again walked out of the House when they were dissatisfied with the reply of the minister Parasnath Yadav over the woes of the potato farmers. While the minister claimed that there is no shortage of potato seeds in the state, but Dharampal Singh (BSP) said that there is an acute shortage in Agra and Aligarh belt.