‘Yes, I have built memorials and statues to commemorate the rich contribution of such personalities who had done yeoman social service and reforms, but their work never received due recognition in successive Congress governments or the other regimes,’ she said.

Justifying the allocation of more than Rs.6,000 crore towards these memorials, she asserted: ‘Whatever I have spent each year towards commemoration of these icons was not more than one percent of the state’s annual budget.’

‘What my government has achieved over a period of three years, since we rode on to power entirely on our own strength, cannot be matched by any other political party that has ever remained in power in the state.’

Claiming there was ‘utter jungle raj’ when the BSP assumed office in May 2007, she said: ‘And I am proud of the fact that in three years, I have been able to create a terror-free, fear-free, crime-free, injustice-free and corruption-free environment by putting the law of the land back on the rails.’

In her view, her government ‘could have done wonders’ had the central government extended cooperation in adequately sharing the cost of various development programmes. She acused it of depriving the state of Rs.17,000 crore, ‘the state’s legitimate share towards various schemes already carried out over the past three years’.

Focussing on the Congress-led government’s ‘conspiracy’ against her regime, Mayawati recalled how New Delhi had not paid any attention to her repeated demand for a special economic package of Rs.80,000 crore for the uplift of Bundelkhand and Purvanchal.

Major Achievements of BSP Government in Uttar Pradesh during the last 3 years

Other Achievements and Highlights of the Budget outlay under main Heads,

During the last 3years of BSP Government, for public Information:-

Achievements of the BSP Government in Uttar Pradesh, during the last 3 years, have been remarkable, particularly on law and Order and Development fronts. If the Central Government had paid, in time, Uttar Pradesh’s due share of over Rs.17,000 crore, the results could have been much better. Not only this, State’s Hon’ble Chief Minister, Ms. Mayawati Ji, by according priority to host of ambitious schemes of Public Welfare and Development, had spent almost 99% of the total available Budget amount on them and only less than 1% was spent on the construction of “Memorials, Museums, Statues, Parks”, etc.,in honour of ‘Saints’, ‘Seers’ (Gurus) and Great Men born in the SC/St and Other Backward Classes.

1.             Home Department :

Total expenditure of Rs 16,105 crore (sixteen thousand fifteen crore Rupees) in the last three years on activities relating to the Home Department with significant achievements as follows:

·                     Lawlessness and Jungle-Raj during the last Government led to victimization of the people, specially the poor and the weak and not a single FIR was registered. Orders issued to launch a drive and have FIRs registered in all such cases.

·                     Large –Scale improvement in the law and order situation in the State and fall in all kinds of crime. As a result Gunda-raj came to an end .

·                     To dispose of public complaints, an effective system of regular “Thana Divas” introduced.

·                     Introduction of “Tahasil Divas” to ensure justice to the poor on-the-spot.

·                     A SIT (Special Investigation Team) constituted for independent investigation of serious economic offences.

·                     To tackle terrorism, ATS (Anti-Terrorism Squad) constituted.

·                     Training of 2,000 commandos from the Police Force on the NSG pattern, in process.

·                     Creation of more than 2.40 lakh posts in the Police Force, increasing Police-People ration from 83 to 150 per lakh. Action taken on recruitment of 35.0000 Police Constables.

·                     Medal allowances to Medal Awardees doubled.

·                     Lucknow District Jail, Model Jail and ‘Nari Bandi Niketan’ shifted to new premises on  /Mohanlalganj-Gosaiganj Road.

·                     The daily district allowance of Homeguard volunteers increased fro Rs.126 to Rs.140 and daily duty allowance of PRD Jawans from Rs.75 to Rs.126.

·                     Settlement of 37,494 cases of personal disputes /enimity out of total 1,94,106 cases registered in police stations between 13 May ,207 and 15, March 2010.

·                     Possession of leased land given to a total od 3,11,841 land allotees with police help.

·                     Fall in crimes against women such as murder, rape, eve teasing, persecution, dowery-killing, chain snatching etc.

·                     Fast-track courts established and as a result of concerted efforts by the Government, an appreciable decline registered in cases under the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Ac.

·                     30 new Fire-Fighting Centres established.

·                     Elemination of Dacoits who had become symbol of terror.

·                     Decision to recruit ex-servicemen to constitute a Special Zone Protection Force to safeguard Memorials, Museums, Statues, Parks, etc., constructed to honour Noble Saints, Seers and Great Men born. From time to time, in the SC/ST and Other Backward Classes.

2.                    Social Security :

Total expenditure of Rs. 40,147 crore (Forty Thousand One Hundred and Forty Seven Crore Rupees) in the last three years on social security activities with significan achievements as follows:

·                      Introduction of direct payment of pension od Rs.30 per month under Uttar Pradesh Mukhyamantri Mahamaya Garib Aarthik Madad Yagana” to poor families left out of Antyodaya Yojana and BPL list

·                      Outstanding S/C debts amounting to Rs.120.28 crore granted by “Uttar Pradesh Anusoochit Jati Vitta Evam Vikas Yojana” during 1985-1997 written off , benefiting about 7.58 lakh S/C families.

·                      Ownership certificates (leases) issued to 9,431 memebers of Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest-dwellers (vanvasis).

·                      Computerisation of schorarships payable to all pre and post-class-X students (girls and boys). Distribution of cent-per-cent scholarship to boy and girl students above class IX. Number beneficiaries exceeding 1.50 crore.

·                      First-time cent-per-cent computerization of old age monthly pension amount increased from Rs.150 to Rs.30 to be credited directly to the beneficiaries account.

·                      The amount of grant increased from Rs.10,000 to Rs.20,000 for the marriage of daughters of SC/ST in Budelkhand region.

·                      The amount of financial assistance, under the scheme for marriage and medical treatment, hiked from Rs.2,000 to Rs.5,000 per head.

·                      Upgradation of 54 Ashram style schools in the State from class-V to intermediate level, ensuring education for 25,000 students.

·                      Sanction accorded to the construction of 10 new government Ashram style schools and 21 hostels for SC/ST.

·                      For IAS and PCS coaching of SC/ST, an institute established at Bhagidhari Bhavan, lucknow as well as Agra, Aligar ans Bareeilly.

·                      Provision of 21.21% expenditure for the welfare of SC/ST under SC/ST sub plan.

·                      As many as 207.21 lakh Backward students benefited with the expenditure of Rs.920.29 crore during 2008-2009.

·                      During 2009-2010 Rs.900.82 crore earmarke for scholarships, benefiting about 217.80 lakh students.

·                      As many as 11.45 lakh students benefited reimbursing Rs.218.21 crore.

·                      With grants of Rs.10,000 for the marriage of daughters and Rs.5,000 for medical treatment of Backward destitute, poor and BPL persons, altogether 82,417 people benefited.

·                      Construction of 34 hostels for students belonging to Other Backward-Classes completed and work on another 12 hostels started.

·                      Amount of grant for artificial limbs/ancilliary equipments for the physically challenged increased from Rs.3,500 to Rs.6,000.

·                      Provision for an additional amount of Rs.2 crore by way of  incentive for the marriage of the physically challenged.

·                      Subsistence allowance for the physically challenged, studying / receiving training, increased from Rs.550 to Rs.850 per month.

·                      Free travel facility available, in all categories of Uttar Pradesh State Transport buses, to the physically challenged.

·                      Relaxation upto maximum of 15 years in age limit, to the physically challenged in recruitment to government services.

·                      3% reservation for the physically challengedin the allotment of fair price shops.

·                      Establishment of Uttar Pradesh Dr.Shakuntala Misra Rehabilitaion University to provide higher education to handicapped students. 50% seats reserved exclusively for the physically challenged.

·                      Construction of hostels at < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Meerut , Alhabad, Lucknow and Gorakpur for visually impaired students.

·                      Work in progress on the setting up of an inter college each at Gorakpur and Meerut for visually impaired boys and girls respectively.

·                      Work in progress for establishing a Shelter Home cum Training Centre each at Bareilly, Meerut and Gorakpur for the mentally retarded.

·                      Distribution of Rs.34,276.71 lakh to 91.64 lakh, pre and post-class-X students as scholarships.

·                      Honororium amounting to Rs.9,377.19 lakh for 6,782 teachers in 2587 Madarasas.

·                      Income celling of poor guardians of wards, eligible for scholarship, increased to Rs.1 lakh.

·                      Aid amount to Rs.2544.50 lakh, provided for the marriage of 25,445 daughters from minority BPL families.

·                      Reimbursement of school fees, amounting to Rs.1,490.15 lakh to 31,229 students studying in post-X-classes.

·                      Provision of Rs.440 lakh for construction of Haj House at < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Ghaziabad and Lucknow.

·                      Direct air flight for Haj travelers from Varanas to Jeddah. Arrangement to send off Haj travelers from Haj House in Luaknow.

·                      The condition of police verification for appointment of Mutavallis abolished.

·                      “Manyavar Shri Kanshiram Ji  Alpankhyak Swarozgar Yojana” being implemented in urban areas.

·                      Construction of Uttar Pradesh Sunni and Shia Central Waqf Boards with strict instructions to both the Waqf Boards to persive all Waqf properties with the grants made available to them.

·                      Grant of Uttar Pradesh Urdu Academy more than doubled and raised to Rs.3 crore.

·                      Adequate provision to reimburse the admission fees of students pursuing medical/engineering /MBA and other University courses.

·                      Provision of payment of Rs.10,000, in one single installment for the marriage of daughters of destitute (BPL women).

·                      Provision of lump-sum payment of Rs.11,000 to the new couple, when a woman re-marries after the death of her husband.

·                      Mahamaya Garib Balika Ashirwad Yajana introduced for girls born in BPL families on 15 January, 209 or thereafter to put a stop to foetus-killing, arrest declining ratio between boys and girls and to enable girls to live a life of self respect.

·                      On the birth of a girl child, an amount will be deposited in her name for a fixed period of 18 years, which on maturity will be around Rs.1 lakh and be payable to the girl if she atayed unmarried till then.

·                      So far 1,01,705 girls benefited.

·                      Increase of Rs.500 in the honorarium of Anganvwadi  workers and Rs.250 in the case of lady assistants.

·                      258.62 lakh beneficiaries getting supplementary nutrition.

3.                    Agriculture :

Total expenditure of Rs.12,527 crore (Twelve Thousand Five Hundred and Twenty Seven Crore Rupees) in the last three years on activities undertaken of the Agriculture Department with significant achievements as follows :

·                      79.27 lakh tones fertilizers distributed.

·                      Distribution of seasonal loans to farmers amounting Rs.11,991 crore.

·                      45.94 lakh Kissan Credit Cards distributed.

·                      Stribution of 8093.16 Kl/tones agricultural chemical under the plant protection programme.

·                      ‘Drip and Sprinkler Irrigation Method’ introduced under rain water storage and irrigation sckeme in Bundelkhand region. 13,652 sprinkler sets distributed.

·                      Implements available , free of charge to all SC/ST and poor and marginal farmers. 75% grant admissible to other categories of farmers.

·                      Comprehensive strategy planned to double the income of farmers from agriculture production in the next two years.

·                      Provision of storage of fertilizer in advance.

·                      Wheat production during the rabi season 2009-10 estimated to be 290.04 lakh m.t., the highest in the last few years.

·                      Food grain production estimated to be 313.36 lakh tones during rabi 2009-10, which is the highest as compared to previous years.

·                      Production of 107 lakh tones of rice and 135 lakh tones food grains during kharif 2009-10 in spite of draught.

·                      Short-term loans amounting to Rs.6,651.61 crore distributed, at reduced interest rates, among small and marginal farmers.

·                      Linking of 350 S/C hamlets with 3,638 Km. long pukka roads by Mandi Parishad..

Cane Development and Sugar Industry :

·                      Record and historic payment of cane price amounting to Rs.28,911.26 crore, including arrears.

·                      Unprecedented increase of Rs.25 per quintal in the State Advisory Price of canr for the crushing season, 2009-10. Never before has there been such an increase in a single crushing season.

·                      For the first time, payment of additioan incentive money to cane farmers ensured with mutual agreement between sugar mills and the farmers.

·                      The farmers got full for their produce due to restrictions imposed on the import of raw sugar in the State until the lifting of the cane crop from the fields.

·                      Efforts made to increase sugar production and productivity by developing five new sugar  varieties.

·                      Two new sugar mills (Hata and Baghauli) started.

·                      Rules amended to provide more representation to SC/ST, Other Backward Classes and women in cane development councils.

4.                    Irrigation :

5.                    Rural Development :

·                      4,998 ‘Bastis’ linked with 19,302 Km. long  Pukka roads at an expenditure  Rs.6,10.90 crore  under P.M.G..S.Y.

·                      Housing facilities made available to 10.30 lakh homeless rural families at a cost of Rs.3,316 crore under Indira Aavas Yojna.

·                      Free houses to 3.06 lakh SC/ST families at a cost of Rs.949 crore under  ‘Mahamaya Aavas Yojna’.

·                      Houses for non-SC/ST and homeless BPL families numbering 0.50 lakh at a cost of Rs.180 crore under ‘Mahamaya Sarvajan Aavas Yojna’.

6.                    Revenue :   

·                      Provision for unmarried daughter also for succession to agriculture land.

·                      Uttar Pradesh Money lending Regulatory Act-2008 enforced to protect farmers from economic exploitation.

·                      An amount of Rs.49.76 crore distributed as compensation against 8,580 claims from farmers under ‘Krishak Durghatana Bima Yojna’.

·                      Altogether, 4,89,989 hectares of agricultural land allotted to 2,28,261 landless people.

·                      Residential plots of 100 to 250 sq.mt. allotted to 3,11,868 homeless families.

·                      In the process of realization of loans, restrictions imposed on the auction of lands of farmers owning less than 3.123 acres.

·                      Under General Public Insurance Scheme, insurance premium of landless families borne at the rate of fifty-fifty by  the central and state government. Two children of the concerned  family to be given a monthly scholarship of Rs.10 also.

·                      Allotment of an acre of 25,240 hectares to 30,410 fishermen families for pisciculture.

7.                    Panchayati Raj :

·                      During 2008-09, as amny as 1,438 Dr Ambedkar Gram Sabhas saturated with CC 9Cement-Concrete)roads KC drains at a cost of Rs.875 crore.

·                      Construction of CC (Cement-Concrete) roads and KC drains completed in  2,175 Dr.Ambedkar villages at a cost of Rs.875 crore during 2009-10.

·                      Approval for installation od sodium lights in 10,000 S/C Bastis in Dr.Ambedkar villages.

·                      Construction of 2,000 Dr.Ambedkar Multipurpose Community Centres in S/C Bastis of Dr.Ambedkar villages. Process of construction of community centres for the next year started.

·                      Under Total Cleanliness Drive during the last three years, as many as 21,99,811 BPL private toilets, 1,525 women toilet complexes , 1,75,613 school toilets and 64,761 Aanganbadi toilets constructed at a cost of Rs.1,08,010 crore.

·                      5,250 Panchayat Buildings constructed at a cost of Rs.149.31 crore during the last 3 years.

·                      For environmental cleanliness in the rural areas, a historic decision was taken, for the first time, by this popular government to creat as many as 1,08,848 posts of Arogya Rakhakas (Health Protectors of all Beings) in the State in March 2008.

·                      An amount of Rs.1,101 .34 crore sanctioned  under the Backward Area Grant-in-aid fund Scheme. Work in progress in 34 districts of the State on the construction of 4,872 Gram Sachiwalayas. 431resource centres, 475 aanganbadi centres, 195 boundary  walls , 76 tubewells, 2,708 tube lights, 291 culverts, 85 drinking water systems, 185 solid waste management units and 1,570 roads.

·                      To provide public facilities under the recommendations of the 12^th finance commission, panchayati Rai institutions made supporting by allocating them a total of Rs.1,758.48 crore from 2007-08 till date.

·                      An expenditureof Rs.4,077.53 crore incurred on the maintenance of properties and assets of Panchayati Raj instutions.

8.                    Energy :

·                      Foundation stones of power projects worth Rs.6,168 crore laid.

·                      To make the State self-sufficient in Power Sector,  decisions taken to generate 25.000 MW of additional power . Towards this end , a total investment of Rs.1.25,000 crore proposed.

·                      To separate agricultural feeders from domestic feeders in the rural areas, Rs.2,600 crore Dr.Ambedkar Urja Krishi Sudhar Yojna introduced.

·                      Setting up of 41 new132 KV power sub-stations  with a capacity of 1200 MVA.

·                      Construction of new sub-stations of 22KV with a capacity of 1440KVA.

·                      Construction of 132/220/400 KV lines – 1240 circuit Km.

·                      Expansion of capacity of 88 sub-stations from 132 KV to 1993 MVA.

·                      Expansion of capacity 38 sub-stations from 220KV to 1890 MVA.

·                      Expansions of 2 sub-stations from 400 KV to 120 MVA.

·                      Electrification 9,739 Ambedkar villages. 3,590 general villages, 3,487 SC/ST bastis and 3,590 hamlets.

·                      Establishing 369 new power sub-stations of 33KV  with a capacity of 2,095 MVA.

·                      Increase in the capacity of 376 sub0-stations of 1,426 MVA.

·                      Construction of 1,378 circuit Km lines of 33 KV.

·                      2 x 250 – MW capacity Harduganj thermal power extension project approved. Synchronisation of the first unit likely on 31 October 2010 and that of the second unit by 30 november next.

·                      The second phase of 1 x 660 MW capacity Harduaganj thermal power extension project is being sanctioned.

·                      Operational work in unit number 7 of Harduaganj thermal power house, from 110 MW to 120MW approved.

·                      Power generation commenced in the first 300 MW unit of 2 x 300 MW Roza thermal power project (private sector). The second unitexpected to be commissioned shortly.

·                      A joint venture of M/s Nyveli Lignite Corporation and Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidut Utpadan Nigam to produce 2,000 MW of thermal power approved.

·                      Sanction accorded to 1 x 150 MW capacity Panki thermal power extension project.

·                      Refurbishing of the units of 2 x 250 MW capacity Obra (A) thermal power station completed and units in production mode.

·                      Proposed installation  of 2 x 660 MW capacity Obra (C) thermal project.

·                      Proposal to install 2 x 660 MW capacity Anpara (E) thermal power project.

·                      Under Parichha extension thermal power project, 2 units of 210 MW set up.

·                      BTG work of 3 x 250MW Parichha extension thermal power project in progress. Units 1 and 2 expected to go into production soon.

·                      Target to achieve additional power generation capacity of 10,000 MW by 2012.

·                      Transfer of Anpara (C)  thermal power project to the private sector.

·                      To achieve increase in production of electricity, new 3,000 MW capacity thermal  power projects proposed which would increase generationof capacity from the present 4,000 MW to 7,000 MW.

·                      Supply of electricity to 7,500 villages ensured.

·                      To install a 1,320 MW power generation unit in Meja (< ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Allahabad) a memorandum of Understanding signed between Uttar Pradesh Rajya Utpadan Nigam and NTPC. Construction work is in progress.

·                      A new scheme of energising private tubewells started. The amount of grant increased from Rs.55,000 to 68.000.

9.                    PWD :