Uttar Pradesh

• 20 May 2023

Greater Aligarh will settle on the lines of Noida

Why In News?

According to the information received from the media on 18 May 2023, Greater Aligarh located on Khair Road in Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh will be developed on the lines of NCR.

Key Points

• For this, Lucknow's consultancy firm has prepared 3D design and photographs of the Integrated Housing Township. Aligarh Development Authority (ADA) has come up with a residential scheme on the Aligarh-Palwal National Highway in about 300 hectares.
• It is known that in the board meeting chaired by the Commissioner, the green signal has been given for the township. ADA will collect land on Khair Road near village Moosepur in Jirauli, Jirauli Dor, Atalpur, Ahmedabad, Jatanpur Chikavati, Rustampur Akhan and Lohasra Visawan.
• This whole area is included in the priority regarding all the schemes of the Central and State Government. Defense Corridor, Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University etc. projects are being built on this road.
• Whereas, this highway connects Aligarh to Delhi-NCR. This route is also important for the connectivity of Jewar Airport. Due to all these reasons, the housing township of ADA will be very important.
• For the township, the design etc. has been prepared by ADA from the firm of Lucknow. According to the ADA, Greater Aligarh will be divided into sectors. There will be towers of different categories of flats.
• Aligarh Development Authority has become the first district to implement land pooling scheme across the state. In Transport Nagar Yojana, a total of 10 hectares of land has been taken from nine farmers under this scheme. Earlier, Mathura and Lucknow Development Authority had also prepared a proposal for land pooling, but due to non-change of land use of the respective lands in these development authorities, the matter got stuck in the administration.
• It is known that in February 2019, the state government had approved the proposal to implement land pooling policy in industrial development authorities. Under this, along with giving five thousand rupees per acre to the landowner for five years, a rule was also fixed to return 25 percent of the area.
• Proportionate portion of the developed land given by him will be allotted to each landowner free of cost through lottery. Landowners will not have to pay any fee for its internal and external development.

Aligarh's Anjana Gupta Got the Most Votes in the Uttar Pradesh Municipal Elections.

Why in News?

According to information received from media sources on May 17, 2023, Aligarh's newly elected Mayor Anjana Gupta has secured the first position in the state by getting 92.76% votes in Uttar Pradesh municipal elections.

Key Points

• BJP's newly elected councilor Anjana Gupta achieved this feat by securing 92.76% votes from Ward 43. Along with this, the record of securing the highest percentage of votes in Uttar Pradesh municipal elections was created in Aligarh.
• Out of total 10700 votes, 5078 votes were cast in Ward 43 in the municipal elections. In this, Anjana Gupta got 4714 votes while Samajwadi Party's candidate got 201 votes.