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Uttar Pradesh under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is on the path to becoming a "trillion-dollar economy", Union Minister of State V K Singh said on Wednesday. He was addressing a gathering at JNU here on the launch of a book titled "Yogi@Trillion Drive: Accelerating to a Trillion $ Economy". "The Uttar Pradesh chief minister has set a target of making the state a trillion-dollar economy. For this, the state government has implemented strict law and order along with structural reforms and innovations in communication and transport," Singh said. The book, available in both Hindi and English, is essentially a research document on Chief Minister Adityanath's ambitious plans of making Uttar Pradesh a trillion-dollar economy. It is edited by JNU Professor Punam Kumari. On the occasion, Dean of Colleges at the University of Delhi Balaram Pani said Adityanath by following the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has showed his determination towards improving the qualit
India needs to get out of lithium-ion battery technology for electric vehicles at the earliest, as the country has no control over the commodity, union minister V K Singh said on Wednesday. In future, the country could also graduate to hydrogen fuel cells in its journey of green mobility and players in the sector need to work simultaneously on these technologies from now onwards, the minister of state for road transport and highways, Singh said here at the inauguration of EV India 2022, an electric vehicle motor show. There is a lot of work happening in the battery segment in India on how to reduce dependency on lithium-ion batteries, he said. Different researches are going on regarding the usage of sodium-ion and zinc-ion "because we would like to get away from lithium-ion", he added. India neither produces lithium nor does it have control over it and the country has to import it, the minister said. "There is a problem where lithium is concerned and the earlier we get out of it,
The continued stir by farmers despite the withdrawal of the three central farm laws by Prime Minister Narendra Modi defies one's comprehension, Union Minister General (Retd) V K Singh said on Tuesday. The minister of state for Road Transport & Highways and Civil Aviation made the observation here while taking stock of the construction of an elevated highway from the Akshardham temple in Delhi to Baghpat. The prime minister announced the repeal of the law during the upcoming parliament session, considering the honour of the farmers, said Singh, while also making an appeal to farmers to consider saving their shakh' (prestige). "The continuation of the protests by the farmers is beyond one's comprehension. The farmers must think of saving their 'saakh' (goodwill), said Singh, during an interaction with reporters here. Broaching upon the issue of development under Prime Minister Modi's rule, he said, The amount of developmental work done in the BJP regime was never done earlier." "The