On BJP agenda: 24x7 helpline at CM office, anti-Romeo force
The new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Uttar Pradesh plans to set up a 24X7 helpline at the chief minister’s office in Lucknow to enable people to report cases of corruption.
The anti-corruption helpline finds mention in the 23-page Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra, a vision document that is now expected to guide the BJP government’s agenda in UP.
A special bus service to bridge the urban-rural divide, roundthe-clock electricity, six AIIMStype super specialty medical centres are also expected to top the party’s agenda.
A major challenge before the BJP is to fill up, within three months of assuming power, the vacant posts in the state in a transparent manner, as it has promised.
“We shall be adhering to the Sankalp Patra. It is a comprehensive document for state’s development,” UP BJP chief Keshav Prasad Maurya told HT soon after his party swept UP.
Having won an unprecedented mandate from Bundelkhand and Purvanchal where it hadn’t done well in years, the BJP would be setting up development boards for these two backward regions of the state.
Linking state’s centres of religious tourism – Mathura, Vrindavan, Ayodhya, Prayag, Vindhyachal, Chitrakoot, Kushinagar and Varanasi – with helicopter service is also on the cards.
Anti-encroachment task force, a special task force to look into all aspects of corruption in the last 15 years, and a special force to check illegal mining along with three special women police battalions and an anti-Romeo force to check eve-teasers too are among the party’s commitments.
Throughout his UP rallies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised that waiving off loans of small and marginal farmers would be the first decision of a BJP government.
“The party’s government will honour the PM’s commitment,” said Naveen Srivastava, a state BJP leader.
The BJP has also decided to improve upon Akhilesh Yadav’s free laptop scheme. The party would be providing laptops with 1GB free internet data to all college-going youth.
Other promises include creating 10 international-level universities, an engineering and polytechnic college in all districts, wifi facility in all schools and colleges, a panel to regulate fees of private schools, free education for all girls till graduation and for boys till intermediate level.