Focusing on Uttar Pradesh, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday promised 1,533 km of road projects at a cost of Rs 46,627 crore with an allocation of Rs 16,350 crore for national highways in 2022. Large-scale infrastructure projects include an expressway between Kanpur and Lucknow, Varanasi and Kolkata, and a corridor between Gorakhpur and Siliguri in West Bengal. It also includes international connectivity between Sonauli (a transit point between India and Nepal) and Gorakhpur. The focus of the government is on the development of roads in the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh.
Sitharaman also announced the implementation of Rs 44,605 crore Ken-Betwa river-linking project in the drought-prone region of Bundelkhand spread over 13 districts of UP and Madhya Pradesh. A provision of Rs 1,400 crore has been made in the budget for the project in the year 2022-23.
To provide drinking water to households, the government has earmarked Rs 60,000 crore for the Jal Jeevan Mission, out of which Rs 12,000 crore has been allocated for Uttar Pradesh.
Jal Jeevan Mission was launched in 2019 to provide safe drinking water to rural households in India by 2024.
In addition, Rs 1900 crore has been provided for the Swachh Bharat Mission in rural areas.
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The estimated expenditure on various schemes of the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation is Rs 957 crore, including Rs 500 crore Namami Gange Project and Rs 170 crore Atal Bhujal Yojana.
Under Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, Rs 6,241 crore will be provided to Uttar Pradesh.
An amount of Rs 1.46 lakh crore will be provided to Uttar Pradesh as devolution of central taxes and duties. In addition, Rs 15,000 crore will be allocated to the state as Finance Commission grant.
Voting for 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh will begin in seven phases from February 10 to March 7. The counting of votes will take place on March 10.
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