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When Uttar Pradesh’s Rs 5.50-lakh crore annual budget was tabled on May 26, one allocation caught the eye — Rs 500 crore for a 4-lane road in Varanasi (“in the opposite side of the Ganga ghat”) aimed at streamlining the flow of people visiting the Kashi Vishwanath temple and the river bank for the evening aarti.
