UP now 2nd largest economy in country; reined in mafia and organised crime in the state: CM Yogi Adityanath
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday claimed that his government in the past five years had set up ''several milestones'' and the state has become the country's second-largest economy from being at the sixth and seventh position. Presenting his government's report card about the work done in the past 5 years, the Chief Minister said that Uttar Pradesh was ''neglected'' after independence. Chief Minister said the development in merely five years contributed to making the state's economy at number 2 spot. “UP's economy from 1947-to 2017 was at 6th, 7th spot (in the country). No work done in 70 years...But in merely 5 years, we have successfully helped the UP economy reach the 2nd spot, " UP CM Yogi Adityanath said while addressing a press conference shortly before leaving for Gorakhpur where he will file his nomination papers on Friday,."Our challenge was to save life and livelihood and we managed to do both. We are leading in vaccination too," the UP CM said. CM Yogi said that the state`s economy has gone up to the second position from the earlier sixth or seventh position that it held. The Chief Minister said that his government set up forensic labs which help in better investigations. He further said that women recruitment in the police had gone up three times."All gram panchayats now have women police personnel and we have achieved good results in crime control," he stated. Citing the National Crime Records Bureau statistics, the chief minister said that crime figures had come down appreciably in the past five years.