UP has been upgraded to the BIMARU status; Yogi Adityanath
In the 1980s, demographer Ashish Bose came up with the term “BIMARU,” which can be translated as “sick,” to describe to states that were falling further and further behind, which was slowing down India’s overall development.
LUCKNOW:
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced on Tuesday, citing statistics from the NITI Aayog, that his state had moved out of the BIMARU state category and emerged as ‘Saksham Pradesh’ (competent state), moving forward on the path towards development. This statement was made in Lucknow.
Yogi stated that in 2015-16, about six crore people in the state, which is equivalent to 37.68% of the population, were living Below the Poverty Line (BPL). He made this statement while he was handing over appointment letters to 1,573 ANM health professionals on Tuesday. “However, the percentage of people who were living below the poverty line fell from 37.68% to 22% in 2019–20, and it stood at 12% right now,” he noted.
The Chief Minister levelled accusations that past governments had engaged in unethical recruitment procedures by engaging in corrupt practises. He stated that the younger generation in the state was going through an identity crisis and that the chacha-bhatija, which refers to SP leader Shivpal Yadav and his nephew Akhilesh Yadav, were engaging in a pattern of “extortions” whenever government posts were advertised.
The Chief Minister, on the other hand, did not mention either Akhilesh Yadav, the leader of the Samajwadi Party, or Shivpal Yadav, Akhilesh’s uncle, who served as a cabinet minister throughout the tenure of the Akhilesh government (2012-2017). No one can blame any of the state recruitment commissions or boards for the situation we find ourselves in today. By making more efficient use of available technologies, we are advancing the process of recruiting candidates for government employment in a way that is open and honest. “This has given confidence to the youth who are also willing to contribute to the progress of the state,” Yogi stated while addressing new appointees as he was speaking to them.
The current Chief Minister criticised the previous administrations, saying that the “sick-minded government of the past had made Uttar Pradesh sick.” When the Chief Minister was asked about the path that development had taken during his six years in office, he provided the example of ten aspirational districts that were falling behind in their development. These districts included Bahraich, Shravasti, Balrampur, Badaun, Sitapur, Siddharthnagar, Sambhal, Kheri, and Hardoi. As a result of Niti Aayog’s designation of them as aspirational districts, development efforts have been particularly concentrated there. According to Yogi, this was then followed by the discovery of one hundred aspirational blocks and the development of those blocks.
He went on to say that his country’s administration has already begun working on the parameters established by NITI Aayog regarding education, health, agriculture and water resources, skill development and employment, and economic disparity. He asserted that over the last one and a half years of his second term in office, 19 appointment letter distribution programmes were planned, and that as a result, 58,000 job seekers were given positions in the government.
He asserted that previous governments have disregarded the welfare of ASHA and ANM workers. According to his assertion, the open positions were not filled. According to the National Multidimensional Poverty Index: A Progress Review 2023, the number of people in India who are multidimensionally poor has significantly decreased, dropping from 24.85% in 2015-16 to 14.96% in 2019-2023. This is a drop of 9.89 percentage points.
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