Yogi Adityanath scraps over a dozen of Akhilesh's projects

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath scrapped over a dozen schemes of the erstwhile Akhilesh Yadav government by denying budgetary allocation to schemes announced by the former Chief Minister.

The Yogi government has also discontinued the Yash Bharti Award, the highest award by the Uttar Pradesh government to eminent personalities from various fields. It was instituted in 1994 by then Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Prominent among schemes which were discontinued by the Yogi government included Akhilesh Yadav's much-publicised free laptop distribution, Samajwadi Party Pension Yojana, Samajwadi Kisan Beema Yojana, Lohia Rural Housing Scheme, Dr Ram Manohar Community Tubewell scheme, and Farmers' accident scheme.

Besides these, Yogi has also scrapped the Samajwadi Health Insurance Scheme and construction of boundary walls around Muslim burial grounds.

These schemes of the previous regime automatically came to an end when the Yogi government did not allocate funds to these schemes in his maiden budget of Rs 3.84 lakh crore presented on July 11 in the UP Assembly.

Reacting to the development, leader of opposition, Ram Govind Chowdhary said that "by scrapping Akhilesh Yadav government's schemes, the BJP government has proved that it has nothing to do with the development and welfare of people of the state."

NEW CM, NEW BUDGET

• The new Chief Minister has allocated a total budget of Rs 55,781 crore for new schemes launched by his government, no allocations were made to run schemes launched by the Akhilesh government