Uttar Pradesh celebrates its foundation day

Uttar Pradesh celebrated its foundation day on Sunday.This was the fourth edition of UP Diwas. The day was started celebrating only after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath led government came to power in the state. The programmes of foundation day will continue for three days till 26th January. This year the theme of Uttar Pradesh Divas is 'Self-reliant Uttar Pradesh : Women, youths, Farmers: Development of all, Honour to All.' Sabka Vikas Sabka Samman '. Dignitaries and people contributing in different fields were honoured on the occasion.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated the function at a gala at Awadh Shilpgram in Lucknow. Speaking on this occasion Chief Minister Yogi said that for the last 70 years the state was neglected and even foundation day was not observed .He said It is only after his  government came to power  the foundation day  started celebrating.He said  his government is carrying all round  development  of the state and various programmes and schemes for welfare of people have been initiated. Chief Minister Yogi distributed prizes  to the winners in different fields including  Sports, Agriculture , Dairy, Industry and culture. Advanced Tool kits were given to the artisans  under ODOP scheme in state.

A huge exhibition on the theme of 'One District One Product' is also being displayed at Gautam Budh Nagar in NCR. An  app of MSME department 'Udhyam Sarthi ' was  launched on this occasion. This app is said  to be a master key for youths that , on a Click, will  provide all  detailed information regarding employment. The programs of foundation day were conducted across the state in all 75 districts where  seminars  were organised with Covid protocol.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi,  Union Home minister Amit Shah ,BJP president JP Nadda, Union Information and Broadcasting minister Prakash Javdeker, Lucknow  local MP and defence minister Rajnath Singh including others have greeted people of state on this occasion. Uttar Pradesh was earlier known as United Province but through a Gazette notification, it got its name of Uttar Pradesh on January 24, 1950.