UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath slammed the former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav for patronizing the liquor contractors in the state thus creating a huge problem including law and order for his government.,
“The previous Samajwadi party government was so benevolent on the liquor contractors that it renewed the contracts of the liquor vends for the next two financial years 2017-18 and 2018-18 days before demitting the office in March this year’’, said the chief minister in state assembly on Friday.
“The Samajwadi party government also left a another problem by allowing the liquor vendors to shift their shops in densely populated areas following the supreme court order banning the liquor shops within 500 meter radius of the national highways’’, said the chief minister.
“We are formulating a new excise policy and besides national highway no liquor shop will be allowed on state highways also. No liquor shop will be permitted within 500 meter radius of all religious places, schools and residential areas’, said the chief minister. He added `` the government has worked out the ways and mans to prevent the loss of revenue; the revenue will infect increase after the enforcement of the new policy’.
Yogi Adityanath said the excise department has two department one deals with sale and marketing of potable alcohol and other with the prohibition. `` The excise minister of my government jai Prakash Singh is a teetotaler and he deals with the second department only the prohibition’’, said the CM
On the Poorvanchal expressway linking lucknow with Ballia CM said the government will complete the expressway and it will also be linked with Ayodhya and Varanasi. He said the government will also expose the corruption in the construction of the lucknow- Agra expressway.
Exposing the tall claims on development of UP by the Samajwadi party, Yogi Adityanath said `` the metro train in luck now inaugurated in 2016, it’s yet to commence the commercial operation. The cancer institute was also inaugurated last year, even today it lacks the basic infrastructure and it was inaugurated with borrowed beds from the KG medical university. He said similar is the state of another trauma center in lucknow which was inaugurated by the former chief minister which was incomplete.
He said the state government has given its approval for the rapid rail service between Delhi-Meerut. He said the project would cost Rs 32,000 crore and the travel time between the two cities would come down to one hour. He said the government is also working for introducing metro rail serviced in Kanpur, Allahabad, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Jhansi, Varanasi and Gorakhpur.
On the corruption in Samajwadi pension Yojana, CM said `` large number of people who were not eligible were given pension and as many as five persons from one family was getting the pension. The issue is like a buried corpse and let it remain buried other wise it will spell trouble for the Samajwadi party’’, said the CM pointing to SP leader and leader of opposition Ram Govind Chowdhary who tried to interrupt the chief minister.
CM said the government intends to provide houses to 27 lakh people in the state. He said the centrally sponsored scheme AMRUT is being implemented in 61cities of the state and smart city project in13 cities of UP. He said the government would soon bring the `Feri niti’ for the street vendors who will be duly registered and they will not face the wrath of the anti encroachment squad of the municipal bodies.
Yogi Adityanath said there were as many as 1.5 vacancies in state police department and every year for the next five years as 32,000 constables will be recruited. `` Unlike the previous Samajwadi party government the recruitment will be done in a fair and transparent manner and people from all caste and creed will be given due representation and not like the previous government when out of 86 persons 56 were from a particular caste’’.
CM expressed his anguish that the lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has also passed adverse order on the recruitment made by the previous assembly speaker Mata Prasad Pandey during his tenure in assembly secretariat.
