In a major move to bring down the pendency of court cases and ensure expeditious justice, the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal to set up 900 new courts across 75 districts of the state.
The link expressway would connect Bharatkoop on Bundelkhand Expressway with the Chitrakoot Dham. These include 237 courts of Higher Judicial Service (HJS) officers, 391 of Civil Judge (Senior Division) and 272 courts of Civil Judge (Junior Division). Chief minister Yogi Adityanath presided over the meeting of the state cabinet that approved 23 proposals. Briefing media persons, finance minister Suresh Khanna said 1,20,66,105 cases are pending across the 75 districts. The cabinet also approved a proposal to develop an access-controlled greenfield six-lane Chitrakoot Link Expressway, 15.172 km long, on an EPC mode with an estimated cost of ₹ 1,008.67 crore.
He said the number of courts to be set up in a district would depend on the pendency of cases there.
The cabinet green-lighted the Uttar Pradesh Toy Manufacturing Policy providing for special incentives to develop the state as the leading toy manufacturing centre. The State Cabinet okayed a proposal to set up new townships in Lucknow, Unnao and Rae Bareli under the Mukhyamantri Shahari Vistarikaran/Incentives for new townships scheme. The UP Cabinet gave its nod to a proposal to increase duty allowance paid to Prantiya Raksha Dal (PRD) personnel from ₹ 500 per day to ₹ 600 per day. The state government will incur an additional expenditure of ₹ 608.68 crore following the decision. It also approved cashless medical treatment of up to ₹ 5 lakh for them and their families with an estimated additional expenditure of ₹ 9.34 crore. Uttar Pradesh manufactures nearly 50% of the toys produced in India. Under the scheme, the state government provides 50% of the expenditure on land acquisition as seed capital for 20 years. A proposal to notify the third amendment to the Uttar Pradesh Nagar Yojana aur Vikas (Bhu Upyog Parivartan Shulk Nirdharan, Udgrahan and Sangrahan) Rules 2016 was also cleared to allow change of land use at the level of development authorities as part of ease of doing business. The amendment would lead to a reduction in the fees for land use change and delegate state government powers of land use change to development authorities to allow land use change in most categories up to a limit of 6000 square metres.
