Tuesday, December 16, 2025 | 11:43 AM ISTहिंदी में पढें
Business Standard
Notification Icon
userprofile IconSearch

Yogi Adityanath needs fiscal prudence to deliver pre-poll promises

Total receipts during the 2017-18 fiscal in UP has been projected at Rs 3,56,679 crore

Yogi Adityanath
premium

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath with NSA Ajit Doval during a meeting with Home minister and Chief Ministers and other Union Ministers to review the development and security issues related with Left Wing Extremism (LWE) at Vigyan Bhawan

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
With mercury levels already past 40 degrees Celsius, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has also started feeling the heat of the high expectations of people, especially with his government completing 50 days in office.

Adityanath has announced a crop loan waiver, as promised by the ruling  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in its ‘Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra-2017’ to the tune of over Rs 36,000 crore, besides ‘Power for All’ encompassing the 24x7 power to all households in next two years. This would need another Rs 36,000 crore.

Then, there are other pre-poll promises, which need fat funds allocation