UP’s debt more than doubled during non-BJP regime: Yogi

Lucknow, September 19
The indebtedness of every person in Uttar Pradesh increased from Rs 7,795 per head in 2007 to Rs 17,097 in 2017. The state’s indebtedness, too, more than doubled in this decade, claimed Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Releasing a 24-page White Paper on the 14 years of non-BJP rule in Uttar Pradesh, CM Yogi charged the previous governments of putting a stop to development of the state and not paying any attention to controlling corruption and checking the crime graph.
Illustrating his point, CM Yogi spoke of the public sector undertakings in the state. He said according to the CAG report, the 65 such units had suffered a loss of Rs 17,789.91 crore. The report states that the accumulated losses of the state PSUs had increased from Rs 29,380 crore in 2011-12 to a whopping Rs 91,401 crore in 2015-16, said Yogi.
Releasing the White Paper in the presence of his Cabinet ministers, CM Yogi said the report showed that only 3 per cent of funds were spent on development-related works in the last 10 years.
CM Yogi said his government was releasing the report of the doings of the previous government as he believed that the people had a right to know. He also promised to release a report card of the achievements of his government, which would be completing six months in office on Tuesday, September 19.
Earlier, he along with his two deputies Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma as well as two ministers Swantra Dev Singh and Mohsin Raza took oath as a member of the state’s Legislative Council, meeting the mandatory six-month deadline to get elected to either house of legislature.