Tag: Uttar Pradesh

Ahead of the state assembly election, the Uttar Pradesh government said that American tech giants Microsoft, MAQ Software, and PepsiCo have agreed to invest Rs 2,866 crore for setting their units in the state.

Uttar Pradesh government will utilise Rs 15 crore from the Nirbhaya Fund to install the two device — a panic button for emergency help and GPS to keep an eye on the buses from a central control room

At present RailTel provides free wi-fi service at more than 5,950 stations in the country, and the facility can be availed by anyone with a smartphone and an active connection after an OTP-based verification.

BLS International said that it has won a new project from Uttar Pradesh government to operate 10,000 Jan Sewa Kendras across the state.

According to the state government data, purchases worth Rs 7,177 crore were made in the last four years through the government e-marketplace (GeM) portal.

The Uttar Pradesh Food and Civil supplies department has been chosen winner in Digital India Awards 2020 under ‘Excellence in Digital Governance’ category.

In a bid to promote information technology for attracting investment, the Uttar Pradesh government will be setting up IT parks in all 18 divisions of the state. The parks, being set up by Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), are expected to become functional in Agra, Gorakhpur, Meerut, Varanasi, during the first half of 2021. According to officials, work will begin on the development of IT parks in Aligarh, Azamgarh, Jhansi and Saharanpur. Dinesh Sharma, Minister for information and technology and deputy chief minister informed that a new dedicated data centre policy is also on the cards. “Under the proposed policy, a 250 MW (IT power) data centre industry is to be developed in the state to attract an investment of about Rs 20,000 crore. At least three state-of-the-art private data centre parks will be set up,” Sharma said. He added, “The government had achieved its five-year target of attracting Rs 20,000 crore investment and providing three lakh jobs in the IT sector in only 3 years.” Sharma also notified that an investment of about Rs 200 crore had been made for the development of IT parks. “In addition to this, 40 acres of land has been acquired in Lucknow to develop a state-of-the-art...

After a probe pointed at a nexus between police and gangster Vikas Dubey, the Uttar Pradesh government has suspended senior IPS officer Anant Dev.

Uttar Pradesh has already started e-Hospital services at the 6 old medical colleges in the state, said Medical Education Secretary Mukesh Meshram.

To overcome the challenge of mismanagement in the land records, Uttar Pradesh has launched an integrated platform called ‘Bhulekh’