Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Friday, announced that weightage would be given to researchers of CM Fellowship programme in administrative services, as these “talented youth” would help Uttar Pradesh become the number one economy.
Handing over tablets to the newly-selected 100 research scholars under the CM’s Fellowship programme, the chief minister said that the selection of research scholars for development of aspirational blocks would be an innovation in itself, as they would gain valuable expertise.
“The 100 CM Fellowship researchers will be given preference in administrative services,” the chief minister announced.
The chief minister asked all the researchers to work in the block for the next two to three years and give better results. “Because the majority of people hold PhD, MTech, and MPhil degrees, research books on rural development can also be written. You will have the opportunity to do this. All the research scholars should be given accommodation facilities in their development block so that the work can be done better,” he said.
A total of 100 research scholars are selected for the CM’s Fellowship programme, of which 27 are females. The researchers will join in November.
The chief minister said that it was a significant day for UP in terms of rural development. “With one lakh revenue villages, over 58,000 gram panchayats, and 826 development blocks, UP is the most populous state. More than 75 per cent of the state’s population resides in villages. These scholars will aid in developing the 100 aspirational development blocks that have been chosen to develop the rural area,” he said.
The chief minister said that eight of Uttar Pradesh’s aspirational districts had got ranking in the top 20 list among the 112 aspirational districts of India while the state’s five districts figured among the top 10 aspirational districts.
“I was unable to understand anything in the beginning. As time went on, we began to work on it and made a few decisions with the ministries and administration. We ensured that there was no shortage of resources and manpower in any field. No extra money was spent for the development of aspirational districts,” the chief minister said.
Maintaining that on the lines of aspirational districts, 100 aspirational blocks had been selected in the state out of the total 826 blocks, the chief minister said, “A dashboard has been created in the Planning department. More than 26,000 people applied for the CM’s Fellowship programme of which 100 selected ones are getting their appointment letter today. They will have to work as a team. The government will give a fixed honorarium to the research scholars, but they will have to upload their daily progress report.”
He said that the inability to do documentation of our work was the biggest weakness. He said the 100 researchers would have to work in their development blocks and along with data collection, they would have to do documentation processing work.
Highlighting the importance of documentation work, the chief minister said the government had constituted a Group of Ministers to visit different districts and submit their report and the results were satisfactory.
The chief minister praised Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak's efforts and said that he produced a thesis of 25 districts, which was a documentation in and of itself.
The chief minister said that he had asked the Infrastructure and Industrial Development department to keep some research fellows associated with the Indian Institute of Management, Indian Institute of Technology and other universities for investments.
“They will help the investors in setting up their industries in Uttar Pradesh,” he said.