Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday announced the creation of three more districts taking their number to 75 in Uttar Pradesh, the biggest state of the country. The newly-created districts will be known as Prabuddh Nagar, Panchsheel Nagar and Bheem Nagar.

The announcements were made in three separate meetings held at Shamli, Hapur and Sambhal where the Chief Minister had gone to review developments projects.

Urgency Clause Invoked To Develop Leather City
New Delhi: After quashing acquisition of land in Noida Extension, the Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside acquisition of 71 acres by UP government in Ghaziabad's Hapur area for setting up Leather City to relocate all bone mills and allied industries there.

Governments are having a tough time in the apex court defending acquisition of land under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, for they had mostly invoked the urgency clause without giving an opportunity to land owners to express their grievances.

Forcible acquisition of land has turned the 117-year-old Land Acquisition Act into a “fraud”, the Supreme Court said on Thursday, calling the legislation a handiwork of “sick” minds with no concern for welfare of the poor.

It went on to praise the Gujarat government, saying no cases of farmers or the poor being uprooted from their land had come to court from the state.

Lucknow In a move that would cleared an investment of R10,000 crore in the ailing power sector and give a push to PPP model, the Uttar Pradesh government is likely to sign an agreements with Isolux Corsan and Cobra MEIL Consortium for the setting up of a new transmission network in the state.

It may be mentioned that the Mayawati government has initiated ambitious plans of capacity addition of

New Delhi: Work will soon begin to make the drive to Nainital or Corbett national park get off to a fast start. The road transport and highways ministry is starting work on eightlaning the 28km stretch of National Highway-24 from Ghaziabad border to Dasna near Hapur.