Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath government has proposed to scrap 20 per cent quota for minority sections in as many as 85 schemes launched during the previous Samajwadi Party government.
As said by Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya, “We are in the process of studying all the schemes. We will continue those which we consider are important but scrap others.”
After taking charge as the Uttar Pradesh CM, Adityanath has been scrutinizing schemes launched during Akhilesh Yadav’s tenure.
The former CM’s dream project Samajwadi Smartphone Yojana was scrapped by the new government in April.
The BJP government had also removed the word ‘Samajwadi’ from all government schemes and replaced it with ‘Mukhyamantri’.
“Samajwadi word will be dropped from Uttar Pradesh government schemes. Mukhyamantri yojna will be used now,” UP cabinet minister Siddharth Nath Singh had told reporters in Lucknow.
The decision came days after the Yogi Adityanath government decided not to distribute some 60 lakh ration cards printed by the previous Akhilesh Yadav government.
These ration cards had photograph Akhilesh Yadav. But, the Yogi Adityanath government decided to roll back all the ration cards having Yadav’s photographs.
Earlier, Yogi Adityanath has already suspended Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Awas Yojana. Instead Yogi Adityanath decided to implement the Prime Minister’s Awas Yojana in Uttar Pradesh to provide affordable housing to the poor.
The Samajwadi Awas Yojana was aimed at providing affordable housing to the masses. Under the scheme a two-bedroom flat was provided to the middle and lower income group families living in cities across Uttar Pradesh.
Previous government had set a target to build 3 lakh flats under the scheme but the progress was very slow. The Yogi government has ordered a probe to ascertain why there was so much delay in implementation of the project.
