NITI Aayog, Yogi govt to jointly prepare roadmap for development in UP

Plan aims at taking the state's growth to double digits

A joint working group comprising top functionaries of the NITI Aayog and Yogi Adityanath government will prepare a roadmap to ensure all-round development of Uttar Pradesh in the next 15 days.

"Niti Aayog vice-chairman Dr Arvind Panagariya has proposed the names of member Ramesh Chand and chief executive officer Amitabh Kant as members the joint working group," Adityanath told reporters after a meeting with NITI Aayog officials. The Chief Minister also recommended that habitations with populations between 250 and 499 be taken up for connectivity with all-weather roads.

Adityanath said that UP cabinet minister Sidhartha Nath Singh, the state chief secretary