Since April this year, 3 expressways have been inaugurated in Uttar Pradesh – Delhi Dehradun, Ganga and Kanpur Lucknow Expressway, total 867 kms.
Today, UP Cabinet approved two more mega expressway projects worth Rs 31,704 crores.
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Good to see many Global Voices now using the term PoB - Pakistan Occupied Balochistan.
Similarly instead of PoK, must use PoJK - Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir.
Keep exposing the real side of terror state Pakistan and coward Pakistan Army which sponsors Lashkar/Jaish/Hizbul.
It's PoJK - Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Not POK, not Azad Kashmir, not Azad Jammu & Kashmir.
It's PoL - Pakistan occupied Ladakh. Not Northern Areas, not Gilgit Baltistan. (Once these areas are back in India, we can name these sub regions as Gilgit Baltistan)
🚨Last night, India switched on a reactor.
Here are 9 numbers nobody is talking about:
→ 72 years: Time since Homi Bhabha conceived this plan
→ 22 years: Time to actually build it
→ ₹7,700 crore: Final cost (started at ₹3,492 crore)
→ 500 MW: Power it will generate
→ 2nd: India's global rank only Russia had this before
→ 25%: India's share of world's thorium reserves
→ 400 years: How long those reserves can power India
→ 200+: Indian companies that built it. Zero foreign designs.
→ 3: Countries that tried and quit - USA, Germany, UK
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She's the hero Bangalore deserves, & also the one it needs right now.
She’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector, a dark knight against the society uncles who are going to learn the hard way what happens when they over reach their non-existent owner powers
It's actually not that difficult to reform the UPSC
Separate the exams. There is no way in the world that one exam centering around GK, history & Urdu literature can gauge a person's competency to do diplomacy, administration, policing, taxation, manage govt communications or railways.
Each needs its own competencies and has to be evaluated at the screening itself. Not till training.
What this will also do is enhance the prestige of other services. The IRS will be the IRS and not the "I didn't get IAS".
Stop this thing of people who qualify for a service, then take a long leave to attempt the exam again, all for an "upgrade".
This is a disgusting practice
First it defines a hierarchy amongst services where ideally there shouldn't be one.
This also goes against the purported fairness of the exam as a person with a secure govt job is in a much better mental position to perform against a person with no back up & has hitched all hopes on this one exam.
If you want to write again for a "better" service, please do so. But resign from your current position before doing it. At least someone willing may take it up. It is surprising that the govt hasn't shut this loophole till now.
Speaking of hitching all hopes on one exam, Restrict the number of attempts for UPSC.
You can't have a group of young productive people wasting the prime of their years to clear an exam failing which they become unemployable.
Restricting attempts will ensure 99% of the people who will fail, explore other options and not give the exam like Groundhog day.
Restricting the number of attempts will also do two other things
First it will ensure only intelligent people get thru, not the ones who have cracked the exam algorithm thru repeated attempts.
Second it will ensure depressed souls don't enter the service. Because these people then become entitled, treat the public with contempt & believe all that moolah they illegally take is their right.
Then For all services where there are state & central components, unify the exams. Create one merit list and then allocate states to candidates via lottery. This will ensure your bureaucracy is always full and prevent instances where states don't conduct public service exams for years.
Make UPSC like the army SSC where the initial period of hire is 5 years. Post that, for every 1000 people let go 900 and retain the top 10%
Don't airdrop people as DMs, SDMs and other senior levels. Make them start from the lowest possible level and make them work their way upwards.
Remove job permanence
Remove automatic promotions
For the central positions, create a 50 - 50 system where 50% will be industry experts nominated by the govt and the other 50% come from the state services guys who survived
For everyone who comes from state services, they have to go thru another round of testing by industry and academic experts to determine their suitability for central positions
Link Legislature and executive. If you want your elected reps to govern, give them the power to govern.
Because today they have no control.
You ask your MP for a road, he has to forward it to the MLA, who then has to request the corporator who then has to plead with the unelected babu of the municipality, if it gets that far. Mostly it gets lost in the Chakravyuh of Indian babudom.
Create a reporting structure where the bureaucrats report to the MLA with a dotted line reporting to MP. Give them the right to fire babus with cause if they don't perform. Make them responsible for their promotion and appraisal.
Today the executive doesn't have to listen to the legislature. Make them
Take discretionary decision powers away from the babu. It is the remit of the elected to take decisions not unelected babus. Stop all district singhams
Make the govt job as just another job. No cars, no bungalows, no servants and no attendants holding an umbrella in the rain. Make it just another job, where instead of working for a company you work for the govt