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State with highest number airports

! The first state in India with 21 airports.
Notably, an international airport in Jewar is also on track to be operational by the end of 2024.

August 2024

Anti - conversion law

Objective of UP anti-conversion law is to uphold spirit of secularism in India: Allahabad High Court
The court further said, “According to the Constitution, no religion shall be given preference over the other.
All persons are free to preach, practice and propagate any religion of their choice.”

Digital Media Policy, 2024

The government has decided to list agencies/firms to give advertisements to promote them for making and displaying content through digital medium like tweets/videos/posts/reels about schemes and achievements of the U.P. Government.
It will also help in employment opportunities to citizens of the State.

Paid content

X, Facebook, Instagram - ₹5 lakhs, ₹4 lakhs, ₹3lakhs, ₹2 lakhs - based on the number of subscribers and duration of the content.
Youtube videos and shorts and podcasts - ₹8 lakhs, ₹7 lakhs, ₹6 lakhs, ₹4 lakhs.

Under the policy, the government has been authorised to take legal action if such paid contents shows any anti-national, anti-social, or derogatory contents. The Hindu

September 2024

General Pervez Musharraf properties auctioned in Baghpat

Land of former Pakistani President and military ruler General Pervez Musharraf is being auctioned in India.
Musharraf's family lived in Kotana village in Baghpat. During the partition, his family moved to Pakistan. Here in India, his 13 bigha land was declared enemy property.
Now the process of auctioning Musharraf's 13 bigha land has started through the district administration.
General Pervez Musharraf died last year.

UP government employees to declare their assets

Yogi adityanath's big step against corruption.
UP Government Employees Need To Declare Assets, Else Lose Monthly Salary.
The UP government has ordered its employees to share their assets on the 'Manav Sampada' portal by August 31. If they do not, their salaries may be withheld and their promotion may be negatively affected.

UP Govt introduces new social media policy : Life term imprisonment for anti-national posts
Policy also encourages the sharing of information related to Govt schemes for Social Media influencers.
For X, Facebook, and Instagram, the maximum monthly payment limits are set at Rs 5 lakh, Rs 4 lakh, and Rs 3 lakh, respectively.
Amount is double for YouTube influencers.

December 2024

Maha Kumbh 2025 - Maha Yagya of unity

A multilingual Sah’AI’yak’ Chatbot, an artificial intelligence-based platform to streamline communication for devotees attending the Maha Kumbh, in 11 Indian languages.

Kumbh area declared as new district

The temporary district, which is the 76th district of the state, will be known as Maha Kumbh Mela district, declared by district magistrate
The notification for the new district includes 67 villages of four tehsils of Prayagraj district, with 25 revenue villages from Maha Kumbh district’s Sadar tehsil, three from Sorav, 20 from Phulpur and 19 from Karchana block.
Organised after a gap of every 12 years, the Maha Kumbh will be held in Prayagraj from January 13 to February 26.
The State government is expecting over 400 million devotees to visit Maha Kumbh 2025.

January 2025

Approves Aerospace & Defence Unit and Employment Promotion Policy

UP Government approves Aerospace & Defence Unit and Employment Promotion Policy with an aim to attract ₹50,000 crore ($5.8 billion) in defence & aerospace investments in next few years.

February 2025

Lucknow deploys Electric and internet enabled sweeping machines

Lucknow Municipal has deployed 100 Electric and Internet Enabled Sweeping Machine Vehicles in the city.
Current updates - Video

50,000 crore in Expressways

Uttar Pradesh government is planning to invest nearly Rs 50,000 crore in seven new expressway projects in the next 2-3 years.

Chitrakoot Link Expressway: 120 km
Jhansi Link Expressway: 100 km
Jewar Link Expressway: 76 km
Vindhya Expressway: 320 km
Vindhya Purvanchal Link Expressway: 100 km
Agra - Purvanchal Link Expressway: 60 km
Agra Lucknow-Ganga Link Expressway: 90 km

March 2025

Holi celebrations

Jama Masjid has been covered with White Tarpaulin in Sambhal ahead of Holi.
10 more Mosques have also been covered
All mosques including Jama Masjid falling on the Holi procession route will be covered with foil and tarpaulin.
Muslims will offer namaz before Chaupai.
The administration has increased vigilance regarding security.

Upcoming expressways map

Delhi-Dehradun Expressway – 210 km
Ghaziabad-Kanpur Expressway – 380 km
Agra-Gwalior Expressway – 85 km
Jhansi Link Expressway – 100 km
Kanpur-Lucknow Expressway – 63 km
Ganga Expressway – 594 km
Gorakhpur Link Expressway – 91 km
Gorakhpur-Siliguri Expressway – 519 km
Ghazipur-Manjhi Ghat Expressway – 135 km
Varanasi-Kolkata Expressway – 620 km

May 2025

Schemes with World Bank

This comes in the backdrop India asking world institutions to stop the funding for Pakistan
World Bank president Ajay Banga, meets the UP CM after meeting the PM of India
The initiatives UP AGREES - revolutionising agriculture in 28 districts of Bundelkhand and Purvanchal region and AI Pragya - aims to build a robust AI talent base by training 10 lakh youth across the state. ¹

July 2025

Give up crime or leave the state

Zero tolerance crime policy

Since 2017 till 2025,
- 14,973 encounters conducted
- 30,694 criminals arrested
- 9,467 shot in the leg
- 238 killed in police action
- 17 Cops Sacrificed their lives

Meerut, tops the list of arrests and injuries

The highest number of arrests and injuries occurred in the Meerut zone, where police arrested 7,969 criminals and 2,911 were injured.

Guidelines to enhance transparency in encounters

To counter allegations that encounters concealed investigative failures, the state issued fresh guidelines last year to enhance transparency.
The new rules require videography of both the encounter site and postmortem examination.
Two doctors must perform and record the postmortem, while FSL teams examine the encounter site.
The investigation would not be given to the police station under whose jurisdiction the encounter had taken place
The investigating officer would be at least one rank above the officials involved in the encounter. Swarajya

References

The Hindu 10.05.2025 ↩