Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh government is working
out a strategy to double agricultural production in a bid to
improve the lot of farmers in the state.
Issuing directives to this effect to officials concerned
here today, UP Chief Minister Mayawati asked them to draw a
plan and submit it before the State Cabinet within a month,
saying her government wanted to make the farmers of the state
prosperous.
Giving these directives on the basis of feedback gathered
at the monthly review meeting of various departments, the
Chief Minister put emphasis on providing various inputs like
certified seeds, soil testing and timely irrigation facilities
to farmers, saying it could effect a two-fold increase in
their income in the next three years.
She also directed the officials to take punitive action
against those who had furnished wrong income cerficiates to
avail government facilities.
Reviewing the programme of Social Welfare Department,
Mayawati ordered setting up of a committee under the
Chairmanship of Principal Secretary Social Welfare in view
of complaints regarding benefits being received by ineligible
people on the basis of false income certificates.
The Chief Minister also asked the officers of the Medical
Department to review the number of operations being undertaken
every day and ensure that the set parameters were strictly
adhered to.
Directing the officers to prepare an action plan for
increasing transportation facility in the rural areas, she
asked the officers of the Transport Department to immediately
issue permits for plying of buses to the small private
transporters and take action for plying of buses on the newly
identified routes.
PTI
