State cabinet cleared the proposal of an international stadium and sports complex in lucknow but with a `sweetner’ for the bidder. The Cabinet also paved way for merger of Shatabdi Hospital into King Georges Medical
University which would now not only facilitate economical treatment for everyone but would also help the State to have more specialised doctors in the near future. Government also increased the seats in ITIs.
Clearing the proposal on an international stadium and sports complex which has been taken up during former chief minister Mayawati’s regime who also allocated 137 acres land for the purpose, Akhilesh Yadav’s government announced a `sweetner’ for the private player who would win the bid. ``The stadium and sports complex is to be built in 70 acres of land under Public Private Partnership(PPP)model and the bidder will be given 35 years to run the sports activities to recover the cost. To facilitate him we will also give him remaining 60 acres of land as a sweetner so he would not suffer any loss as the projects costs over Rs 500 crore", disclosed chief secretary
Jawed Usmani while announcing that very soon state capital will have an international level stadium of 50,000 capacity to organise all matches including cricket. This project was mooted by previous Bahujan Samaj Party
(BSP) government but developers were not showing any interest due to lack of sweetener. The 67 acre of land to be given to the developer can be used by them for any purpose including housing complexes or other thing. Usmani while briefing media persons here on Tuesday afternoon said RFP and RFQ would be issued very soon for the project.
In another major decision, the state government has decided to increase 46,200 seats in the government run ITIs in the next two years and now the total seat of the ITIs in the state would touch around 1.15 lakh. All new ITIs would have 12 trade admitting 480 students while teachers would also be appointed as per the requirement. The state government has also approved a proposal of the KGMU to hand over the Shadabadi Hospital in lucknow under their supervision." Now all patients have avail cheap medical facilities at the Shatabadi hospital as earlier Rs 300 was charged from the patients in the outdoor," the CS said. Giving Shatabadi Hospital in the KGMU kitty will also enhance the facilities of the University as now it can start 100 seats for Post Graduate course while the availability of bed would rise by 25 per cent and the OT and ICU facilities would be strengthen.
Usmani also said that government was also considering to invite tender for the ambitious lucknow- Agra Greenfield Expressway on the basis of Engineering, Procurement and Construction(EPC) basis after no company came in the bidding under Built, Operate, Transfer(BOT) system. The UP government has also decided to construct the 22.80 kilometer of Agra Inner Ring road connection Yamuna Expressway with Taj Mahal at the cost of Rs 320 crores. No land would be acquired except for the road by the government as no farmers are ready to give their land , the
CS said. While Agra Development Authority(ADA) will construct the first phase of six-lane road of 10.9 kilometers, the state Bridge Corporation will construct the bridge over river Yamuna and a Rail Over bridge at a cost of Rs 120 crores. The state government has also decided to have underground electricity wire lines in Azamgarh, Tirwa in Kannauj and Saifai in Etawah districts at a cost of Rs 160 crores. The cabinet meeting also approved for a 2161 megawattpower purchase from private companies for 25 years from October 2016. While 1000 mw would be purchased from KSIK Mahanadi Power company of Chhattisgarh, 361 mw from PTC company and 800 mw from Krishna Patanam company. The liverage power tariff rate would be Rs 5.73 per unit. The government also extended the completion of the transmission line from Bara thermal power station being constructed by ISOS company. Now they can finish the first phase of the transmission line by December 2014 and the entire project by August 2015. Bara Thermal power plant in Allahabad is expectedto start power generation from December 2014. The government has also decided to make seven new tehsils in the state. The new tehsils are Pailani of Banda district, Rajapur of Chitrakoot district, Ajitmal of Auriyya district,
Takha of Etawah district, Raja Talab of Varanasi district Maholi of Sitapur district and Mitauli of lakhimpur Kheri district.
The government has also approved to broaden the lohia Path in the state capital for which 107 square meter of land would be taken from the Raj Bhawan. The government will also convert National Highway -44 of about 30 kilometers near the new power generation unit while lucknow- Kanpur higway will be expanded near Amausi airport and
Haj house of about 3 kilometers. The government has also decided to broaden NH-234 from Kannauj railway station to Tirwa.Meanwhile after providing all sops to the Muzuffarngar riot affected people, state cabinet also decided to provide Rani laxmi Bai pension to the family of the seriously injured in the recent riots which claimed 62 lives. Usmani said that altogether 74 families would be benefited, who have been serious injured in the riots occured in
Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Saharanpur, Bagpat and Meetur after August 27. The injured would get Rs 400 per month from September last as per the rules and guidlines of the Rani laxmi Bai Pension scheme of the state government. State government had launched the Rani lakshmi Bai Pension Scheme, mainly for women. The scheme proposes to cover more than twenty lakh families within the ongoing financial year. The beneficiaries under the scheme would be mainly women head of families. Around 62 people were killed in the Muzaffarnagar riots and 40,000 people were rendered homeless.