Claiming `achche din’ for the UPites, The SP regime claimed a spike in state GDP and per capita income during the last four years and that rural and urban economy had galloped since 2012.
"The economy of the state has improved in the last four years. Basic facilities have been made available to the people. The figures available with Irrigation, Health, Agriculture, Education and Social Welfare departments show bullish trend in rural and urban economy,” the state government claimed in a release issued in lucknow on Wednesday.
The government said that GSDP of UP was 3.9 per cent in 2012-13 which climbed up to 6.6 per cent – a 2.7 per cent increase in the current fiscal.
Similarly, Net State Domestic Product (NSDP) which was 3.7 per cent in 2012-13 grew to 6.5 per cent in 2015-16.
“The per capital income has also shown a spiral in last four fiscal years. It has grown from Rs 35,358 to Rs 48,584,” the spokesman said.
It said that similar growth was visible in other sectors. In Education sector, registration of students in Secondary section went up by more than 15 per cent. In 2012-13 it was 57.17 per cent which grew to 65.95 per cent in 2015.
“The drop out rate has also come down in last four years from 49 per cent to 39 per cent,” said the release.
The release said that UP is primarily an agrarian state and keeping this in mind state government declared last year as 'Kisan Varsh' and provided facilities to farmers. Irrigation area has increased resulting in improvement in agriculture production.
“In 2012-13 per hectare production was 23.91 quintal which has gone up to 25.11 quintal which is an increase of 5.02 per cent. This increase has helped in improving economic condition of the farmers,” he said.
The release also spoke on improvement in infrastructure through construction of Agra-lucknow Expressway, lucknow Metro, setting up oif dairies in lucknow and Kanpur and construction of Hi-Tech projects in Allahabad, Kanpur and Unnao.
“To make village digital projects like I-Sparsh have been introduced,” said the official release.