{"id":308635,"date":"2019-01-29T13:32:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T13:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308635"},"modified":"2019-01-29T13:40:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T13:40:11","slug":"up-cm-yogi-adityanath-holds-cabinet-meet-at-kumbh-mela-in-prayagraj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/up-cm-yogi-adityanath-holds-cabinet-meet-at-kumbh-mela-in-prayagraj\/","title":{"rendered":"UP CM Yogi Adityanath holds cabinet meet at Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308638 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/yogi-2-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/yogi-2-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/yogi-2-768x459.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/yogi-2-696x416.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/yogi-2-703x420.jpg 703w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/yogi-2.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday held a cabinet meeting at the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">For the first time in the history of Kumbh, UP State government&#8217;s cabinet meeting was held\u00a0at Prayagraj Kumbh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">UP Cabinet today decided to construct 600 km long\u00a0Ganga Expressway from Meerut to Prayagraj with a cost of rupees 36000 crores to provide better connectivity from Western districts to Prayagraj.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Talking to media persons, Yogi extended his government&#8217;s gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union government for extending great cooperation in organising Divya and Bhavya Kumbh at Prayagraj.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said undisrupted flow with clean water of river Ganga is results of attempts and inspirations of Prime Minister Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Yogi said that his cabinet has also approved proposal of Gorakhpur link road project\u00a0connecting Azamgarh and Ambedkarnagar with Purvanchal expressway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said 5555 crore rupees will be invested on the link project. Yogi also announced that Cabinet has also decided to exempt film URI from State GST as film is based on patriotism and sacrifice of soldiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">UP Cabinet has also decided to set up statue of Nishadraj at Sringverpur at Prayagraj and develop Ashram of Maharshi Valmiki at Chitrakoot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After cabinet meeting, Yogi took a holy dip at Sangam the\u00a0confluence of rivers Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati along with his cabinet colleagues\u00a0and visited his sect of Nath to meet saints and seers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday held a cabinet meeting at the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj.\u00a0 For the first time in the history of Kumbh, UP State government&#8217;s cabinet meeting was held\u00a0at Prayagraj Kumbh. UP Cabinet today decided to construct 600 km long\u00a0Ganga Expressway from Meerut to Prayagraj with a cost of rupees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[10718,5602,5587,284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308639,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308635\/revisions\/308639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}