(ET)
During the inaugural address of the Investors Summit held in Lucknow, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that change is visible in Uttar Pradesh. This ‘change’ is the result of chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s implementation of the strategy for the development of the state within a year. The PM also said that UP has the potential to become the growth engine of the country, and to make it a reality, he chanted the 5P mantra—potential, policy, planning, performance and progress. The first four are mandatory for the implementation of the last P, i.e. progress. The question is: Whether the Adityanath government was able to fulfil all these criteria? And to what extent was UP able to match this scale in 2019.
The gestation period for materialisation of basic infrastructure is much longer than smaller schemes, and so these are not able to emerge as a brand in a short period of time. But these have the capacity to change the picture of the state. Likewise, the infrastructure on which the government is working on will lead to change, be it Jewar Airport, Bundelkhand Expressway, Ganga Expressway, Purvanchal Expressway, defence industrial corridor to be built from Aligarh to Chitrakoot, waterway from Prayagraj to Haldia, or initiatives being taken in the field of MSME and agriculture. These will prove to be the strongest arteries of the development of the state.
