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Government officers in Lucknow, the city of nawabs, are beginning to give up their ‘nawabi’ habits. 
 Be it coming to the office on time or substituting paan and gutka with chewing gums, there has been a sudden change in the way officials and bureaucrats of the <keyword id="95895" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="UP-government">UP government</keyword> work. 
 
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UP government has, for long, banned chewing tobacco in government offices but the rule was not followed by the officials themselves, let alone general public. However, one can now see that they are not only switching to toffees and chewing gums, but are also more careful about not littering the floors by the wrappers. 
 
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Talking of the attendance, ever since the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/yogi-adityanath-takes-oath-as-ups-21st-cm/articleshow/57717089.cms">state’s new CM</a> urged <keyword id="6384319" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Government-employees">government employees</keyword> to be ready to work 18-20 hours a day, employees have started coming to the office regularly; also because they have been warned against taking official files home. To track their attendance and working hours, a biometric attendance recording system might also be installed soon. 
 
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 Transport minister <keyword id="2005920" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Swatantra-Deo-Singh">Swatantra Deo Singh</keyword> told TOI that he would not bear any carelessness in terms of cleanliness. He himself cleaned the floor on the first day of the "Swachh drive" at the transport commissioner's office. 
 
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Akhilesh Yadav-led <keyword id="6362695" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="uttar-pradesh-government">Uttar Pradesh government</keyword> has decided to construct a new dam on Gomti river in the state capital to solve drinking water demands of the residents of Lucknow. 
 Chief Minister <keyword id="6355031" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Akhilesh-Yadav">Akhilesh Yadav</keyword> has shown the green signal to the project at a meeting held at his official residence, said an official spokesman. 
 He said that a new dam will be built near <keyword id="6405954" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Janeshwar-Mishra-Park">Janeshwar Mishra park</keyword> to ensure uninterrupted drinking water supply to the people of the city, added the official. 
 
The chief minister also asserted that for smooth movement of large number of vehicles, a four-lane road will be constructed along the Sharda canal between Faizabad and Kanpur roads. He also added that the two projects will prove useful in improving drinking water and traffic system in the city. 
 
In addition to this, he has approved construction of a separate link road for elderly and physically weak pilgrims in Sangam area in Allahabad. He has also directed to construct a four-lane bridge on Ganga river from Sangam to 1,250 metre downstream.

UP Government Plans To Construct New Dam On River Gomti

Lucknow, The Uttar Pradesh government has said that all <keyword id="37180" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="schools">schools</keyword> for <keyword id="3216" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="students">students</keyword> of <keyword id="6405739" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Classes">Classes</keyword> 9, 10, 11, and 12 will run in a single shift from Tuesday. The Classes will be run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for all educational boards as per the notice. Schools across the country were shut due to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. The schools and colleges in Uttar Pradesh were reopened on October 19 in two shifts, with several safety guidelines set into place by the state government and the health department. However, most schools recorded abysmally low attendance as many students preferred to stay away. Safety measures like strict social distancing, thermal checks at entry points, wearing of masks and face covers, and regular washing of hands have been made mandatory for all the students and staff attending regular classes in schools. Additional Chief Secretary, <keyword id="6355445" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="education">Education</keyword>, Aradhana Shukla, said, "Keeping in mind the weather conditions, it has been decided to allow schools to run in one shift." An order to this effect was issued on Monday night. The representatives from unaided private schools had met Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, who also holds the education portfolio, and had sought permission to hold classes in one shift only. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/2021-will-be-a-watershed-moment-for-india-tech-ecosystem-here-are-the-startup-sectors-that-vcs-are-betting-on/articleshow/80208631.cms">‘2021 will be a watershed moment for India’s tech ecosystem’ — here are the startup sectors that VCs are betting on</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/gadgets/news/oneplus-band-with-24-hour-heart-rate-monitoring-14-days-battery-life-launched-in-india/articleshow/80209025.cms">OnePlus Band with 24-hour heart rate monitoring, 14 days battery life launched in India</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/ecommerce/news/radhakishan-damani-dmart-ready-takes-cautious-steps-against-jiomart-and-amazon/articleshow/80209971.cms">Pitted against JioMart, Amazon and others, Radhakishan Damani’s DMart has opted for “controlled acceleration” in e-commerce</a>

Uttar Pradesh government allows schools for classes 9 to 12 to run in single shift from January 12

Last month, we told you about the government’s decision to lay out a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Not-every-new-venture-can-be-called-a-start-up-says-the-Indian-government/articleshow/50495558.cms">concrete definition</a> of the word <keyword id="6404679" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="start-up">start-up</keyword>, so that only innovative companies could benefit from the “Start Up India, Stand Up India” initiative. 
 
Now, the government has set out the definition of a 'start-up' so that only deserving companies can be able to gain from the 'Startup India Action Plan' and to "create a conducive environment for startups in India". 
 
A government notification says that to be able to benefit from the plan, a 'start-up' should have at least 20% equity funding by any incubation, angel or private equity fund, and an accelerator or angel network duly registered with SEBI should be endorsing the innovative nature of the business. 
 
Only the companies that fulfil these conditions would be considered as start-ups up to five years from the date of incorporation till the time that their turnover exceeds Rs 25 crore. 
 
The government also wants a boost in innovation, therefore start-ups should be engaged in development, deployment or commercialisation of new products, processes or services driven by technology or intellectual property. 
 
In order to recognising a company as a start-up, the government will use a mobile application/portal until the launch of which, the Department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP) will be planning an alternative. 
 
Benefits under the plan include a tax holiday and Inspector Raj-free regime for three years, capital gains tax exemption and Rs 10,000 crore corpus for funding. 
 
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That UAE has a lot of super rich and super successful Indians is not a hidden fact, and in a bid to do something for their country while benefiting from the huge scopes of returns on investment, five such leading Indian-owned businesses in the UAE will be investing over $3.68 billion in infrastructure and industrial development initiatives in the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP). For this, an MoU has been signed during an investment forum held in Dubai. 
 <keyword id="6355031" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Akhilesh-Yadav">Akhilesh Yadav</keyword>, the Chief Minister of UP, had earlier launched what he called an ambitious programme to boost the all-round development of the state, which was to be done by attracting NRI investments from across the globe, with a special focus on the Middle East. 
 
The companies have pledged to invest in the upcoming manufacturing, utilities and healthcare initiatives in the state, and their names will be made public in the coming weeks. 
 
It was a few months back that the Abu Dhabi-based Lulu Group had announced its decision to invest Rs 1000 crore to set up a shopping mall, convention centre and five-star hotel in the state, which would also create more than 3,000 jobs once it is completed. 
 
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Five Indian-owned firms from UAE are going to revamp UP’s infrastructure

A few months ago, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had asked commerce minister <keyword id="129243" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Nirmala-Sitharaman">Nirmala Sitharaman</keyword>, whose ministry administers the government's Start-up India, Stand up India programme, to help him find a start-up that collects used oil at an industrial scale, so that it can be recycled and put to use again. 
 This inspired the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (<keyword id="6391107" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="DIPP">DIPP</keyword>) to become a matchmaker between several ministries of Indian government and start-ups that work in fields that these ministries seek. 
 
There are several arms of the government that are looking for innovative ideas so that they can find a solution to their unique problems. On the other hand, there are also many start-ups that have found way outs of these problems, but don’t even know if those are required or not, or have no contacts in the government. 
 
"The idea is to act as a facilitator between the two," a government official aware of the matter told <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/policy-trends/dipp-to-handhold-startups-put-them-in-touch-with-government/articleshow/52948280.cms">ET</a>. "It can aid in solving critical problems of the government," added the person. 
 
Sitharaman has asked DIPP to look seriously into the booming startup ecosystem so that it can find innovative solutions for all the major problems that various government departments are looking solutions to. 
 
The first phase of the concept will be tested during the start-up national fest that is going to be held this August in Hyderabad. In the fest, a contest, called the Grand Challenge, will be held, for which DIPP will ask various ministries to share their problems, and start-ups would be selected on the basis of effective solutions. 
 
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DIPP to bridge the gap between start-ups and ministries looking for new innovations

When farmers were protesting across India against the NDA government’s land acquisition bill, over 30, 000 farmers in Uttar Pradesh willingly gave their fertile lands to the <keyword id="927064" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Samajwadi-Party-led-government">Samajwadi Party-led government</keyword> to build its six-lane Agra-Lucknow expressway project. The government's flagship 302-km expressway greenfield project is the longest in the country till date. 

	The state government has acquired nearly 3,000 hectares of fertile, multi-cropped land for its greenfield expressway project without a murmur of dissent. At least 30,074 farmers in that state gave up fertile tracts of the Indo-Gangetic plain in record time. 
	 

	But the question arises, how did this acquisition for the Rs 15,000 crore project happen so quickly? When asked about the same, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister <keyword id="6355031" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Akhilesh-Yadav">Akhilesh Yadav</keyword> told TOI that by keeping farmers happy. When <keyword id="93127" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="UP-Expressway-Industrial-Development-Authority">UP Expressway Industrial Development Authority</keyword> (UPEIDA), the nodal agency for implementing the project, set out to acquire land for the developers of the expressway project, it decided to avoid the contentious "acquisition" process almost entirely. "Instead of acquiring land as is usually done, it was decided to purchase land from farmers through a mutual agreement. 
	 

	To make the transaction more lucrative, land owners were offered four times the circle rates (CR) in rural areas, and twice the CR in urban parts, as purchase cost. Acquisition was only considered in cases where mutual agreement failed," said Navneet Sehgal, chief executive, UPEIDA. To build it by October 2016, as the chief minister has promised to do, the <keyword id="95895" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="UP-government">UP government</keyword> needs a total of 3,368.60 hectares of land cutting across 232 revenue villages from Agra to Lucknow, and passing through the districts of Mainpuri, Etawah, Kannauj, Auraiyya and Unnao. In the 270 days between June 2014 and January this year, UPEIDA completed about 27,000 registries at the rate of about 10 a day, arguably the fastest yet, government-run expressway project of this magnitude. To achieve this, UPEIDA paid, till May 15, 2015, Rs 2,844.55 crore to make an outright purchase of 2,824.16 hectares of land from individual land owners, and 303.29 hectares from government departments, almost 93% of the total land it needed. Assistant CEO UPEIDA, <keyword id="361651" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Ashutosh-Dubey">Ashutosh Dubey</keyword> said, "The government set up rate fixation committees under the chairmanship of the <keyword id="6381069" type="POSITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="District-magistrate">district magistrate</keyword> to arrive at a mutually agreeable rate. After the approval of the CEO, land owners were given four times, or twice the CR depending on the location of their land. 
	 Apart from their land holdings, owners were also compensated for permanent structures built on their land, and for unharvested crops." When TOI contacted land owners who gave up their land through a mutual agreement with the state government, reactions were mixed. In Unnao, which falls under segment 5 of the expressway project and is being developed by <keyword id="689816" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Larsen-Toubro-Limited">Larsen &amp; Toubro Limited</keyword>, Jagdamba Singh, a resident of Matariya village, confirmed he had received four times the circle rate. 
	 

	"My village was on the Unnao-Lucknow border, but on the Unnao side. My compensation, as a result, was paid according to the prevailing DM circle rates in Unnao. The neighbouring village that falls in Lucknow, however, received a higher compensation. So even though I got four times, I felt cheated," Singh said. In Etawah's Takha tehsil, Bakridan begum walked away with a compensation of Rs 8.91 lakh for selling 2.5 bighas of land held in her name. Her son, <keyword id="3718452" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Naseem-Khan">Naseem Khan</keyword> told TOI, "We used about Rs 98,000 for a wedding in the family. We are also in advanced stages of talks over the purchase of additional agriculture land with the compensation money we received." In both cases, Singh and Khan said their families will remain invested in farming and did not plan to use the surplus funds to diversify their businesses. 
	 

	Not all land holders, however, were agreeable to selling their land to the government. In such cases, UP opted for the land acquisition process as prescribed under the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act of 2013, and acquired 160.28 hectares of land. Here, while the rate of compensation remained the same, beneficiaries were offered an extra payment at an interest rate prescribed within the state's rules.

	The benefits of the dual model-acquisition plus purchase were many. "This model allowed UP to facilitate land transfer to developers in record time, Dubey said. Since the state's pur chase-acquisition process started in June last year, UPEIDA now has a land pool of 3,287.73 hectares of the 3,368.60 hectares it needed; that's 97.6% of the land it needed, organized in less than one year. 
	 

	The success of the Agra-Lucknow "expressway" model of acquiring land through mutual agreements and through the acquisition route has now been extended to other construction projects as well. "It is a smoother, faster process. More significantly, though, farmers and land holders get a much better deal for their land than they would if we went the acquisition way. That would have been also much more time-consuming,” Dubey added.

	 
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One of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship initiatives, Startup Standup India has got a lot of press over the last 12 months. The programme is looking to build a strong technological eco-system for nurturing innovation and startups in the country. 
 
Officially launched on January 16, 2016, the action plan charts a way to generate new employment opportunities and a more fertile ground for entrepreneurs across the length and breadth of the nation. 
 
So what’s in it for startups/entrepreneurs? 
· It’ll bring more Women and SC/ST entrepreneurs onboard. Over 2.5 lakh people would be helped with Bank loans. 
· PM Modi even said there will be no income tax on startups’ profits for three years 
· One can register a start up in a day using the <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.narendramodiapp&amp;hl=en">Narendra Modi app</a>. Just fill a small application, and voila! 
· Filing startup patents would be a lot easier 
· More freedom to entrepreneurs 
· No tax from any startup for three years 
· Startup India Fund for Startups 
 
The promises seemed really good on paper. So much so, that the current generation of startup entrepreneurs went gung ho over the proposed regulations. 
 
Now let’s have a look at the current status of some of the above. You’re in for a ride! 
 
Status: 
· While a total of 728 applications were received, the government has recommended only one for tax benefits 
· A total of Rs 1360.11 Crores were disbursed in loans till July 15. Out of this, Rs 179.15 Crores, or 13% was to Scheduled Castes, and the rest went to women and Scheduled Tribes. 
· Only 180 applicants have been ear-marked as startups, and a mere 16 applicants had been incorporated after April 1, 2016. 
· Till now, only three start-ups have received equity-free seed funding from the Department of Science and Technology. EmpoWer, a Zone Startups India accelerator for women entrepreneurs is in the list. 
· While the government says they are currently working on minimizing the time spent in licensing process, nothing has been announced. 
· The Startup helpline has received over 200 calls a day. 
 
Ummm…What do you think now? Does it cut it? Tell us in the comments below! 
 
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