Yogi sets June 15 deadline to make UP roads pothole-free
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has set June 15 as the deadline to make the roads in the state pothole-free, asking the authorities to work in the direction. Earlier, he had also promised to provide 24-hour power supply to all the 75 district headquarters, 20-hour electricity to tehsils and 18-hour power supply to rural areas in the state.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is turning to be a hard task-master for his bureaucrats. Yogi Adityanath has set a deadline for filling up all the potholes in Uttar Pradesh by June 15.Yogi Adityanath said, "We have asked (the concerned authorities) to ensure by June 15 Uttar Pradesh should become pothole-free."Taking a jibe on the previous Akhilesh Yadav government, Yogi Adityanath said, "It had become the identity of Uttar Pradesh that the spot from where potholes appear and where darkness sets in at the stroke of evening, the boundary of UP starts."Yogi Adityanath's comment is interesting in the wake of his predecessor Akhilesh Yadav's public claim about improving the roads of Uttar Pradesh. During the Assembly election, Akhilesh Yadav had even claimed that if PM Narendra Modi travelled on the roads built by his government, the Prime Minister would vote for Samajwadi Party.24-HOUR POWER TO DISTRICTSSpeaking at a function, organised for distributing assistive devices to specially-abled people, in Deoria, Yogi Adityanath said that his government would provide 24-hour power supply to all the 75 district headquarters in Uttar Pradesh.Yogi Adityanath said, "We will provide 24-hour power supply to every district headquarters. Every tehsil will get 20-hour electricity while rural areas will have power supply for 18 hours."Providing 24-hour power supply in Uttar Pradesh was among the poll promised of the BJP.Yogi Adityanath reiterated that his government would establish the rule of law in Uttar Pradesh. Anti-social elements will not be spared, Yogi Adityanath said. His comments assume significance in the wake of his warning to those committing atrocities in the name of cow protection.Yogi Adiyanath also promised that the closed sugar mills of Uttar Pradesh would be reopened soon. Attempts to check encephalitis in eastern UP will also be made on greater scale, he added.