On the completion of his Government’s one year in office, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath declared four lakh jobs in the next fiscal, one million houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and declaring a decisive battle against corruption, launched an anti-corruption portal on Monday
“The Government has zero tolerance towards corruption. During the past one year, 192 officials were either forced to retire or sacked for corruption. Besides, departmental proceedings were underway against 415 officials,” the CM said while inaugurating the anti-corruption portal, which will be available in Jan Suvidha website of the Government.
“Complainants could upload videos on the portal and their identity would be kept secret,” said Yogi. He even compared himself with a monkey (Hanuman) who would torch the ‘lanka’ of corruption and dynastic rule.
With Governor Ram Naik as chief guest at a function at lok Bhawan in lucknow, the Chief Minister presented the ‘report card’ of achievements in the last one year and announced schemes for the next fiscal.
In a slew of announcements, Yogi declared that the Government will open jobs in 64 departments in the next fiscal and fill up around four lakh posts. These jobs will be in police, local bodies, education and other departments.
“The NCERT syllabus will be introduced in all primary and secondary schools in the state from April 1. A total 1.69 lakh schools in the State, 2500 have been identified as ideal schools at par with convent schools,”the CM said.
“The successful Investors Meet in February has started showing results. In March 2018, MoUs worth Rs 25,000 crore have been implemented, while MoUs of similar amount would be implemented in April,” Yogi said.
The CM also claimed that in the current fiscal, around eight lakh houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana were completed, while in the next, the Government has set a target of constructing one million houses for the poor in both rural and urban areas.
Yogi said that the Government has decided to waive off royalty on soil for peasants from April 1. Earlier, a farmer was allowed to take 10 trolleys of mud for his personal use. “If brick kiln owners decide to reduce the rate of bricks, the Government can consider waiver of the soil royalty for them too,” he said.
In another important announcement, the Chief Minister said that the land of the poor grabbed by the influenctial will be released.
“Our fight against land mafia will continue, but the poor will not be harassed,” he said.
In his long speech, Yogi elaborated upon the government’s achievements including improvement in law and order and redressing farmers problems by waiving off crop loan.
“This money was arranged from our own resources which shows our commitment to solve people’s problems, Yogi said adding that Government also ensured cheating-free Board examination.
The CM claimed that PDS has been linked with Aadhar Card after which a Rs 3500 crore food grain scam was exposed. “This year the government transferred over Rs 80,000 through Direct Bank Transfer (DBT) to farmers’ accounts during which the Government purchased 37 lakh metric ton of wheat and 45 lakh ton of paddy,” Yogi said.
The CM also announced 50 Pink buses for women in the state, construction of Panki thermal power station in Kanpur with a cost of Rs 5800 crore to generate 660 Mega Watt and to connect all remaining tehsils and blocks with two lane roads in the next fiscal.
Besides, Rs 35,000 crore were earmarked for Metro rail project in Kanpur, Agra and Meerut, while similar projects in Noida and Greater Noida would be completed in 2018-19.