Industry, healthcare: Big push for key sectors in UP’s Rs 24,496-crore supplementary budget

Other significant provisions included Rs 1,758.56 crore for urban development, Rs 639.96 crore for technical education, promoting skills and innovation, Rs 535 crore for women and child development and Rs 500 crore for solar energy. The supplementary budget also included provisions of Rs 423.80 crore for medical education and Rs 400 crore for sugarcane and sugar mills, Khanna said.

The minister said that the Gross State Domestic Product of the state is projected at Rs 31.14 lakh crore, which is higher than earlier assessments.

Some of the major provisions in the industrial and infrastructure sector include Rs 1246 crore for developing the Greenfield Expressway connecting Jewar International Airport with the under-construction Ganga Expressway and Rs 1835 crore for the Ganga Expressway project.

Apart from this, Rs 200 crore has been allocated for the panchayat elections due next year; Rs 1 crore provision has been made for eco-tourism and development of religious sites, and Rs 3.24 crore has been allocated for Uttar Pradesh Clean Air Management Project.

Significant provisions have also been made for Central schemes, especially “PM Surya Yojana” for which Rs 500 crore has been allocated for state subsidy. Also, provision of Rs 20 crore has been proposed for installing solar rooftops on government, semi-government, and B-PACS buildings. For the PM Mitra Park scheme, Rs 85 crore has been allocated.

In the education sector, Rs 613 crore provision has been made for establishing centres of excellence in state polytechnique colleges. Under the excise department head, Rs 26.25 crore provision has been made for establishing “Command and Control Centre”.

For the healthcare sector, the budgetary provisions include Rs 10 crore for Cancer Hospital in Lucknow, Rs 120 crore for SGPGIMS, and Rs 20 crore for Ram Manohal Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Rs 10.65 crore for State Medical College Meerut, Rs 6 crore for State Medical College Prayagraj, 9.5 crore for State Medical College Agra, 8.75 crore for State Medical College Kanpur, and 5 crore for State Medical College Gorakhpur.

Rs 1 lakh has also been allocated for the development of International Cricket Stadium in Gorakhpur district.

Slew of Bills tabled

Among the Bills presented in the Assembly on Monday included the King George’s Medical University, Uttar Pradesh (Amendment) Act, 2025, to “ensure the representation of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes in the Executive Council” with an aim “to protect and monitor the constitutional rights of reserved categories” at KGMU.

Another significant Bill replacing ordinance was UP Ease of Doing Business (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2025. Presenting the Bill, state Industrial Development Minister Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi said it was “a significant step towards trust-based governance”.

Under the new Bill, 10 laws in the State List have been reformed. “More than 40 provisions across 14 departments have been decriminalised. Imprisonment provisions have been retained only for offenses that cause physical harm or endanger life, are committed through fraud, and create negative externalities. All other offenses, such as procedural lapses, documentation errors, or minor violations, have been decriminalized. Only monetary penalties are prescribed for these offenses,” the minister said.

The list of laws in which provisions have been amended under the Bill are aUttar Pradesh Sugarcane (Regulation of Supply and Purchase) Act, 1953, Uttar Pradesh Cinemas (Regulation) Act, 1955, Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporations Act, 1959, Uttar Pradesh Kshetra Panchayat and Zila Panchayat Act, 1961, Uttar Pradesh Industrial Area Development Act, 1976, Uttar Pradesh Liquor (Control of Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1976, Uttar Pradesh Trees Protection Act, 1976, Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code, 2006, Uttar Pradesh Groundwater (Management and Regulation) Act, 2019, Uttar Pradesh Fire and Emergency Services (Prevention) Act, 2022.