Uttar Pradesh

• 14 Apr 2023

IT, Medicity, Education City and Sports City will come up in the state

Why in News?

According to information received from media sources on 12 April 2023, the state government is going to set up an IT city on the lines of Bangalore and a medical city on the lines of Maharashtra. Education City and Sports City will also be set up for better education.

Key points

• According to the information, its responsibility has been given to the Housing Department. Along with making arrangements in the building development bye-laws, it is going to bring a policy for this. This scheme is expected to provide employment to 50 thousand youths of the state.
• The state government has a plan to develop such a place for renowned pharmaceutical companies of the country and the world, where all facilities are available, for this there is a plan to set up a medical city on the lines of Maharashtra. For this, at least 200 to 300 acres of land will be arranged.
• All major cities will be developed as education hubs, in which big colleges and universities will be invited to open.
• Along with this, a blueprint is being drawn to set up an IT city on the lines of Bangalore. It is known that IT City was established in Lucknow during the Samajwadi Party government, but it is not sufficient as per the requirement. That's why special arrangements will be made for this in the state capital region.
• With the help of Medical City and IT City, a target has been set to provide employment to 50 thousand people every year. At present, the maximum number of jobs in the IT sector in the country are in Bangalore and Pune.
• The state government wants that the youth of Uttar Pradesh should get good education as well as employment resources in the state itself. That is why work is being started in the direction of opening IT City. The doors of employment will open in the medical city in the area related to it.
• It is known that in the year 2016 IT City was started in Lucknow. IT City has been established on 100 acres on Lucknow-Sultanpur road. HCL is working here. About 5000 people have got employment through IT City.
• It may be noted that the country's first medical city is being set up on 300 acres in Indrayani, Maharashtra. It consists of hospitals, research centres, pharmaceutical factories, wellness and physiotherapy centres, etc.