When you hear the name Uttar Pradesh,
many stereotypes might come to your mind.
Bad infrastructure,
bad health system,
high unemployment,
people who are not very educated.
Very bad law and order situation,
communal tensions,
and no business, no industry.
Will it be called the plight of government hospitals in UP
or that of humanity?
In the hospital, a female and a bitch
become mothers at the same ward.
Let's go to this school in Banaras.
I get a strong stench from the animals
Lawlessness continues, it seems,
unabated in Uttar Pradesh,
widespread violence and clashes
now being reported
in several districts in UP.
People do not have employment.
He says come on, whatever you get, even a peon’s job will do,
will at least fulfill the hunger.
At one time Uttar Pradesh's name was not Uttar Pradesh,
rather, a state dependent on the almighty.
But if you look at today's Uttar Pradesh,
it is a bit different.
Uttar Pradesh at present
has become the first state in the country to have 13 expressways.
Uttar Pradesh received investment worth 33,50,000 crores
During Global Investor Summit.
An additional 75,000 crores in UP
over the next four years.
In women-related crimes,
the conviction rate of Uttar Pradesh
stands at number one countrywide
Yogi Adityanath ji is saying that mafia out
and investor in.
So, the same state which was once under jungle raj,
which was controlled by goons and mafia,
its law and order situation
education, infrastructure
how did it all improve so much?
See, this is the result of UP government's
and Yogi Adityanath's very clear-headed,
determined, and long-term thinking
So, let's talk today how Uttar Pradesh
turned its fortunes around.
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Hello, hello, you are most welcome
to this episode of The Sham Sharma Show.
I am the CEO of Secularism, Sham Sharma
and a secular salute to all of you.
You might remember
how bad the condition of Uttar Pradesh used to be at one point of time.
This was called jungle raj.
This is Mayawati ji's jungle raj.
The corruption was so bad,
the police were so badly controlled by the politicians,
that the police were used to harass journalists.
A journalist who posted on Facebook
about a UP minister's illegal activities,
burnt alive by policemen
during a raid on his house.
Another journalist who exposed dubious land deals
tied to a motorcycle,
dragged several meters and then beaten.
No arrests have been made in either case.
The Minister concerned hasn't even been questioned.
The entire state used to run in caste-based politics.
This caste-based divide and rule policy
was also used on the police.
Different mafias had so much influence on the government
that the government officers who used to investigate this mafia
used to lose their jobs.
Greater Noida SDM, Durga Shakti Nagpal,
where in the past few weeks
started a campaign against the sand mining mafia,
has been suspended.
UP's top police officers
used to quit their jobs
citing that UP's top political leadership
is completely corrupt.
A senior IPS officer in Uttar Pradesh
has lashed out at Chief Minister Mayawati.
He has accused her of being corrupt
and fears that he will be targeted
for speaking out against the government
But today's UP looks quite different from that kind of Jungle Raj.
So, let's look at each aspect of this metamorphosis properly.
The first aspect is infrastructure.
You know that states like UP and Bihar had an image
that there is no such thing as infrastructure.
Driving on the roads of these states
means driving on the surface of the moon.
But the first major focus of the Yogi Adityanath's government
has been on infrastructure development.
Especially highways and expressways.
At one time when the infrastructure was in such a bad condition,
in comparison, in today’s situation,
Uttar Pradesh has the maximum number of expressways in the whole country.
Almost more than 3,000 kms of expressways have been built.
The advantage of these expressways is,
the traveling time within the state
gets drastically reduced
and importantly both money and time of people's businesses are saved.
Second focus is RRTS and airports.
So, the focus of the government is not only on long-distance traveling
but is quite focused on intercity travel as well.
The government has announced
that metro rail will be developed in 12 cities of UP.
On top of that, in these Metro and RRTS projects,
almost Rs 3,000 crores will be invested
RRTS stands for Regional Rail Rapid Transport System.
Think that if metro and bullet train got married
and the child that came out of it, is in a way RRTS,
Which significantly reduces the travel time between the cities.
Along with railways, airports are also being developed.
The airports which once had only 25 to 30 routes,
have now become airports with almost 80-90 routes.
Even the smallest of the cities are being connected with the airport.
A full-scale international airport
is being developed in Ayodhya,
which is named
Maryada Purushottam Shri Ram International Airport.
The next focus of the government
is to develop Hindu religious places
and develop a tourism economy in it.
In December 2020, the State Government
had developed a Department of Religious Affairs,
whose goal is to develop different religious sites of UP
into a proper tourism hub
for example,
The Ram Mandir Complex being developed,
The Kashi Vishwanath Corridor that has been developed
And along with them more sites are being developed
such as Mathura, Naimisharanya
Chitrakoot, Vindhyachal, and Gorakhpur.
The goal is that these famous places
also be developed into a tourism hub,
so that a lot of tourism money also comes to Uttar Pradesh.
Do you know how much tourism has increased in Kashi?
Tourism has increased at least 150 times.
When tourists come, a lot of money also comes.
The expressways, trains, and airports
that are being developed
will also have a big role in increasing
connectivity in these tourism hubs.
The temple economy of India,
which is the tourism economy,
is worth around 3,00,000 crores,
which contributes 2% of the GDP at present.
For example, if you look at Tirupati,
it is a city with a huge temple economy,
which is almost a 3,000-crore temple economy.
Uttar Pradesh also wants that its rich cultural heritage
should also be used to develop different temple economies.
In India, there are 200 plus towns
which are run on Temple economy.
Tirupati is a ₹3,000-crore economy.
Ganesh Visarjan just in Mumbai is a ₹500-crore economy.
Kanwar Yatra, that's a ₹200-crore economy.
And the Kanwars are made by Muslims of Saharanpur.
So, religious places are a huge economy in India.
So now, there's a huge economic empowerment
of Ayodhya that will happen, not only Ayodhya, Shard,
whole of Eastern Uttar Pradesh.
In fact, the parts of Bihar also.
The next big focus is Law and Order.
Before the arrival of Yogi ji,
Uttar Pradesh basically in the past
was controlled by people like mafia, goons, strongmen, etc.
Who used to get support from different political parties.
The condition was so bad at one time
that companies like Amazon and Flipkart
used to deliver only in 2-3 districts,
because they knew
if they went to more districts,
goons would loot them.
Now by targeting all these things
Yogi Adityanath's government has stopped it.
Either these goons have been arrested
and the goons who attack the police,
they are encountered.
Police officers have explained
that at one time goons
used to get support from politicians,
but today police
are getting support from politicians.
Police is being given freedom, exemptions
to take proper actions against these goons, strongmen, mafias.
There were road mafias,
there were sand mafias,
there were cheating mafias,
there were car theft mafias
and these were all organized crimes.
For organized crime in UP,
marked 50-50 names in every district,
and raided them.
So, when this happened, an atmosphere was created
that we can come back to this state.
The benefit of taking action on this law and order
is that the many communal clashes
and riots that used to happen in UP,
those have reduced now.
In fact, riot cases in UP
in comparison to the rest of the country have decreased faster
Even in the crimes against women,
the action of the police
and the conviction of people in these crimes
has happened then maximum in UP.
The charge-sheeting in crimes against women
has gone from 71% in 2017 to almost 77% in 2021.
The pendency rate of these cases
has come down from 21% in 2017 to just 17%.
And this law-and-order situation, which has improved so much,
was a big factor
as to why people voted for Yogi Adityanath again.
Law and order, which is bully rule, has it decreased,
or has it increased further,
or is it the same as it was?
Oh brother, it has decreased.
The environment has become very pleasant for women.
And the facility which was not there
we are getting that facility
and will continue getting in future too.
We will get facilities from him.
There was only hooliganism in governments,
by those in red caps
and since Yogi ji has come,
it is very good.
Crime is very less.
What is going on is good, it should get better.
So, the transformation that is taking place in UP
had a clear strategy by Yogi ji behind it.
If you look at the health sector as well,
according to the NITI Aayog,
Uttar Pradesh was among the top 3 states
which has made the maximum improvement in key health indicators.
On top of that, even in medical and public health infrastructure,
UP spends more than the country's average.
So, the transformation that is taking place in UP
had Yogi's very clear vision behind it.
Want to increase investment,
want to improve infrastructure
and want to reduce crime.
So, the investment summits which at one point
used to be held in states like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka,
today are being held in Uttar Pradesh as well
and Uttar Pradesh is also getting huge investments.
As an NRI I have not seen this image of UP abroad .
Maharashtra used to come to us,
Telangana used to come,
Andhra used to come,
Tamil Nadu used to come,
but UP did not come like this.
So see the development that is happening in Uttar Pradesh at this time.
This is very good news.
This is very important for the country.
Because if you look at the population density of India,
then if you look at the areas of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,
you will see that these states are not only big,
but a large part of India's population lives in Uttar Pradesh.
There is a very young population here,
there is very high human capital,
people are hardworking.
The problem is that they do not have opportunities,
so they have to go to other states
to find opportunities,
where they often face discrimination and violence.
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And they are also unable to get good paying jobs.
And it also creates social tensions in other states.
If they do not have to leave their state
for jobs and economic opportunities
if they get this opportunity in their own state,
then it is very good news for them
and for the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Because see, even historically
Uttar Pradesh's population has been very high,
but the contribution to GDP
has been relatively low, according to the population.
On top of that, if UP pays ₹100 as tax,
then it takes ₹333 from the government.
Means it's an eating state, unfortunately.
So if UP has to be made a state
like Gujarat and Maharashtra,
that these people are net contributors
and not net takers,
then very serious changes
will have to be brought in the state of Uttar Pradesh,
and this is what the Yogi government is trying to do.
When UP contributes 17% to 18% population
and only contributes 8% and 9% to GDP,
then this gap is not good for us.
And we are an eating state in a way.
Yogi Adityanath has said this.
So, we should take our GDP forward.
Because see, if you just look at the population density of UP,
it becomes very clear
that if UP moves forward,
then the country will move forward
and well Bihar...
What did you say man?
Don't know when Bihar's growth will happen.
Earlier Bihar had at least one friend, Uttar Pradesh,
now Uttar Pradesh is also developing.
Poor Bihar is left alone.
One day, who knows.
See still there are many things in UP
which can be improved.
For example, police to civilian ratio
can be improved a lot.
Still infrastructure has to be improved.
Health infrastructure especially all these things have to be improved.
But the trajectory towards which Uttar Pradesh is moving,
That trajectory is very good
and this is very good news for the country.
And I want to ask you,
do you also believe
Uttar Pradesh is gradually transforming?
And do you also believe
that Uttar Pradesh's development
is a very good news for the development of India?
If you agree then do let me know in the comment section below.
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