Panellists feel that PM Modi\u2019s plans of promising development funds in the state is a good sign, but these need to get off the ground successfully<\/i><\/p>\n
Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u00a0has launched 81 investment projects worth over Rs 600 billion (Rs 60,000 crore) for Uttar Pradesh at a ground-breaking mega-event.\u00a0APN\u2019s popular debate\u00a0Mudda<\/i>\u00a0took up the issue of whether such investment will boost development, or is this simply a populist move before the general elections. Anchorperson Anant posed the questions to panellists including economist Akash Jindal, Steel Board MD Rajiv Kapur, SP\u2019s Pradeep Singh, Congress\u2019s Anup Patel, BJP\u2019s Anand Sahu and\u00a0APN<\/i>\u00a0consultant Govind Pant Raju.<\/p>\n
Sahu said: \u201cIt is for the first time that this kind of investment and technology is coming in UP. Electric scooters and cars will change the scenario now. When industry starts, cluster development starts, and employment happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Patel said: \u201cIt is good news. UP is lagging behind in development. But development is more than \u2018Signing India\u2019. PM went to Bihar and asked people \u2018you want Rs 1 lakh crore, 2 lakh crore or more?\u2019. Is this the way the PM is supposed to arrange for funds in a state? Bundelkhand has been waiting for funds for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Singh said: \u201cThe news to siphon development funds in UP is welcome. But we need to see that there is a difference in talk, intention and reality.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kapur said: \u201cIndustrialists are now looking seriously at UP. When an industry is set up, smaller industries also come in. There\u2019s a lot of difference in planning and execution. Safety, law and order are also important. Under CM Yogi, the law and order situation is better in UP now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jindal said: \u201cThere are a lot of growth possibilities in UP, the topography suits industry, water resources are good, and a talented pool of resources is also there. But still, issues concerning infrastructure\u00a0\u00a0affect development. What\u2019s needed is growth of industrial corridors, export opportunities\u2019 data, export-import policies, and so on. Investors will put money only when they see some profitability there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raju said: \u201cThere is certainly an improvement in ease of doing business. But roads and networking in smaller areas are yet to improve. Problems regarding pot holes, water logging and overloading are still there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sahu said: \u201cRoad, power and labour are important. In Bundelkhand (like Kalahnadi) there is a serious water shortage. The government has a multi pronged strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n
At this point, Patel told Sahu that he cannot club Bundelkhand with Kalahandi.<\/p>\n
Sahu added: \u201cIf water comes in Bundelkhand, other plans will surely take off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Singh said: \u201cSP did a lot of work for Bundelkhand. At least drinking water problem was improved by SP. If Patanjali was in Bundelkhand, development would have been fast-tracked there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kapur said:\u201dBusinessman needs infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Patel said:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cBundelkhand is not like Kalahandi. It\u2019s not good to critiise the earlier governments. Modi\u2019s policies are only geared to please his friends Ambani, Adnani and the like.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jindal said:\u201dIt is not that water cannot reach Bundelkhand. Innovation and creativity is needed for water to reach Bundelkhand. In the last five years, we are at the lowest level of FDI. What\u2019s the explanation of that? FDI is the source of investment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anant said he wanted to understand the socio-economic conditions better.<\/p>\n
Raju said: \u201cIt\u2019s a fact that development in Bundelkhand has been caught in political bickering. Bundelkhand is not a backward area. People have looted the area, which is why it is in bad shape. Some months are still there before the LS polls, and BJP will certainly benefit if the projects take off successfully.\u201d<\/p>\n
~ Compiled by Niti Singh Bhandari<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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