Uttar Pradesh

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Uttar Pradesh

UP Assembly seats 404, Council seats 108


Hierarchy: Secretariat > Divisional Commissioners > District
Magistrate
The district is further divided into tehsils, blocks and villages for
administrative convenience and for collection of revenue and
development works.
Most populous state with 17% population of the country
4th largest state in India
75 Districts; 80 constituencies (India 543)
822 Development Blocks and 97000 villages
Population is 200 million or 20 crore
70% of the workforce dependent on Agriculture but only 40% GDP
of the state comes from the sector
20% of the income comes from industry and employs 9% of the
people
Budget
Rs. 3.40 lakh crores in receipts and Rs. 3.46 lakh crores
in expenditures.
Fiscal deficit of Rs. 49960 crores 4.04% of GSDP
Fiscal Deficit also includes Rs. 13000 crore of UDAY scheme bonds
without with the Fiscal deficit is 2.97% of GSDP
Public Debt is 30%
UP has declared 2015-16 as the year of the Farmer and 1000 agri
junctions will be built to agriculture as a good means of livelihood
among young entrepreneurs.
Samajvadi Sarvhit Bima Yojana
Samajvadi Pension Scheme
Youth Employment scheme
Bundelkhand region Rs. 1200 crore
Expressways Agra-Lucknow and Lucknow-Azamgarh-Ballia

Education
Literacy: 67%, males 77% and women 57%
Health
Women life expectancy < 55 years
IMR: 53/1000
MMR: 292/10000
Fertility rate: 3.3
Sex ratio: 908
HDI
Kerala is #1
UP #16 below National Average of .609 (UP is .457) as good as
Ivory Coast

UP tops growth in largest states enterprise growth and jobs


Enterprise growth of 67.4% as compared to 41% national average in
the last 1 decade
Employment growth rate at 79.4% and placed third overall. Ahead of
Gujarat, Maharastra and Karnataka
The rural sector in UP also grew faster than urban sector
BIMARU: Ashish Bose (demographer and Hon. professor of
Institute of Economic growth) coined the term
Virtually no movements of social reform in gender and caste equity
in UP as compared to Western states like Maharashtra and
Southern states
Feudalistic mindset continues to dominate the country side with
lathi-welding landlords commanding much force over the other lower
castes.

Political class has been accused of cronyism, corruption and


violence.
How can a well-intentioned civil servant track the

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