Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addresses a press conference on the completion of eight years of the state government, in Lucknow, Monday, March 24, 2025.
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Uttar Pradesh, once considered a laggard State, has now become India’s engine of economic progress, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Monday (March 24, 2025).
Speaking at a press conference in Lucknow to mark eight years of the National Democratic Alliance government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, he credited “Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policies of service, security and good governance” for the State’s progress.
Mr. Adityanath recalled that before 2017, Uttar Pradesh was categorised among India’s lagging regions, or the ‘BIMARU’ States.
However, in the last eight years, it has emerged as the driving force of the nation’s economy, leading across multiple sectors, he emphasised.
The Chief Minister said that before 2017, agriculture was completely neglected in Uttar Pradesh. Farmers had been struggling, and the sector was on a decline. Reforms under the “double-engine government” changed the situation significantly, he said.
The State’s agricultural growth rate, which was around 5% in 2016-17, has now risen to over 13.5%, he said.
Mr. Adityanath pointed out that the state’s economic turnaround began with the first cabinet decision of his government, which waived farmers’ loans worth ₹36,000 crore.
As a result, food grain production, which stood at 557 lakh metric tonnes in 2016-17, increased to over 668 lakh metric tonnes last year, rising nearly 20%, he said.
Published – March 24, 2025 01:37 pm IST
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