UP govt sanctions ₹797 cr. for Ayodhya beautification

Ayodhya, Aug 3: The Uttar Pradesh government will beautify the Ram temple area in Ayodhya on the pattern of Varanasi’s Kashi Vishwanath Corridor with the state cabinet on Tuesday approving a ₹797.68-crore proposal for the renovation and widening of roads leading to the Ram temple. A two-year deadline was set by the cabinet for the completion of this project.

 

 

 

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath presided over a meeting of the state cabinet that also approved a proposal for setting up the regional center/campus of the Rashtriya Raksha Vishwavidyalay in Lucknow.

 

 

 

“We will develop the area in Ayodhya on the pattern of KV Corridor,” said minister for tourism and culture Jaiveer Singh while briefing media persons about the state cabinet’s decisions. He said a sum of ₹797.68 crores had been approved for the beautification and broadening of roads in the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir area. This included the construction of the 12.940-km Sahadatganj-Nayaghat main road. The development of the area would pave way for easier access to the temple for pilgrims and prevent overcrowding. Singh said the road would be constructed by the Public Works Department after acquisition work, which would be carried out following financial rules by the competent authority for land acquisition. It may be mentioned that the Ayodhya vision document provides for the construction of modern roads along with sewer lines, power cables, water ducts, and the provision of other utilities. The 12.940-km road will be used as the trunk road of modern Ayodhya city. The state cabinet approved a proposal for signing of an MoU between the state home department and Divyangjan empowerment department to provide free of cost building of an integrated special secondary school (for three years) for setting up the regional center/campus of Rashtriya Raksha Vishwavidyalay, Gandhinagar, Gujarat (national defence university). The regional center/campus of the university would be set up there till its own building comes up on the Lucknow campus of Uttar Pradesh Institute of Forensic Sciences. The union government had set up the Rashtriya Raksha Vishwavidyalay in Gandhinagar as an institute of national importance for the availability of efficient personnel for national security agencies and police services, training, and research on issues of internal and external security.

 

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The vice-chancellor of the university requested chief minister Yogi Adityanath to set up a regional center/campus of the university in Lucknow. The CM gave his in-principle approval to provide 5 acres of land for the university on the premises of UP State Institute of Forensic Sciences.