The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to celebrate ‘UP Diwas’ on January 24 every year. Notedly, it was on this date in 1950, United Provinces was rechristened as Uttar Pradesh. The decision was taken during the fifth cabinet meet headed by state chief minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow on Tuesday.
The government also green-signalled the new transfer policy under which 20 per cent officers and employees of group ‘A’ and ‘B’ who have completed three years in a district or seven years in a division will be transferred before June 30. The government, however, has said that differently-abled employees will be given relaxation in transfers. The cabinet also decided to scrap the manual tendering process in government departments and replace it with online tendering and procurement systems to bring in transparency.
“Manual tendering process is being scrapped from all government departments and e-tendering and e-procurement system will be implemented within three months to bring about transparency in the system,” cabinet minister Sidharth Nath Singh said.
The state cabinet also agreed to the GST Bill which will be passed in the forthcoming session of state legislature commencing on May 15.
The cabinet also decided to exempt stamp duty of about Rs 210 crore on the transfer of land for fertilizer factory in Gorakhpur. Singh said the Union government would make an investment of Rs 6,500 crore on the revival of the factory. But for about a year, this project was lying dead as the transfer of land and the registry is still pending
