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Topic: UP Government

UP govt transfers 12 DMs weeks after polls. 11 of them headed districts where BJP lost

The transfers of IAS and IPS officers in districts where BJP lost in the Lok Sabha elections has led to allegations of 'political vendetta' by the Opposition.

SC imposes interim stay on Allahabad HC order striking down UP Board of Madarsa Education Act

The bench headed by CJI Chandrachud said ‘purpose of Madarsa board is regulatory in nature & Allahabad HC is not prima facie correct that its establishment will breach secularism.’

‘Poor fiscal marksmanship’? UP budgets Rs 7.36 lakh crore for FY25, but is spending less than proposed

Yogi Adityanath govt had set aside Rs 7.19 lakh crore for 2023-24, but expects to spend Rs 6.32 lakh crore from total proposed amount by 31 March this year.

UP govt announces Rs 7.36 lakh crore budget. ‘State’s largest ever,’ says CM Yogi Adityanath

New schemes worth Rs 24,863.57 crore included, emphasis on women, youth, farmers and employment generation.

UP DSP was suspended twice for filing closure report in SC/ST case. Then HC came to his rescue

Setting aside charge sheet & govt proceedings against DSP Abhishek Yadav, Allahabad HC called it a ‘glaring case of exercise of administrative discretion to be vitiated for malice in law’.

‘Parallel arrangement, creates doubt’ — UP bans halal certification for food items except exports

Announcement comes after Lucknow police booked three companies for allegedly issuing illegal halal certificates and promoting enmity between different groups.

Varun criticises Yogi govt’s suspension of Sanjay Gandhi Hospital Amethi licence over patient death

Action against hospital follows death of 22-year-old patient in a case of alleged medical negligence. FIR filed against its CEO and three doctors on 17 September.

Allahabad HC to SC to NGT — judicial efforts to clean Ganga span 3 decades, but road ahead unclear

Pollution has become a perennial problem in the holy Ganga, with various courts grappling over the issue for decades. Now, a jurisdictional question has further muddied waters.

UP adds Savarkar, Deendayal biographies to school syllabus. Opposition calls it ‘educational corruption’

Life histories of 50 personalities will be taught in classes 9-12. Opposition protests inclusion of Savarkar & Deendayal Upadhyaya, saying they didn't participate in freedom struggle.

UP govt appoints 3rd acting DGP in row despite contempt plea in SC. ‘Bad precedent’, say ex-DGPs

Senior IPS officer Vijaya Kumar given charge. Mukul Goel, who was shunted out last May on grounds of 'disregard of govt duty', 'indolence', was state’s last permanent police chief.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.