Yogi govt merges service cadres of cash rich development authorities

Continuing with its purported agenda of purging cash rich development authorities in Uttar Pradesh, especially Noida and Greater Noida, of corruption, the Yogi Adityanath government has decided to merge the service cadres of nine such entities into a centralised body.

The state cabinet has approved the UP Industrial Area Development (Amendment) Bill 2017, which would integrate these development authorities and subject the new cadre thus formed to transfers within these bodies.

Earlier, the Yogi administration had also recommended CAG audit of Noida and Greater Noida, while CBI is already probing cases of some shady transactions in these development authorities.

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