Akhilesh Yadav will remain 'babua' throughout life: UP CM Adityanath
Lucknow (PTI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath has trashed as "childish" Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav's charge that he delayed distribution of tablets and smartphones as he cannot operate gadgets himself, and asserted that the state government has been using e-path as part of good governance.
Yadav probably doesn't know that I have been monitoring the functioning of government schemes through an e-dashboard installed in my office as well as residence, the chief minister said.
The government had presented an e-budget last time as well as this time, he told PTI in an interview on board a helicopter in the course of campaigning.
He was responding to Yadav's remarks that "since 'baba mukhya mantri' doesn't know how to operate laptop and tablet he delayed there distribution as part of the the BJP'S 2017 poll promises in the state".
Dubbing it as a childish remark, Adiyanath said Yadav will remain a 'babua' (child) throughout his life and added that "such comments are devoid of sanskar and sanskriti" (value and culture).
Uttar Pradesh has been using Information Technology on a wider scale as part of good governance.The government has adopted e-tender procedure to end "malpractices" during previous governments when middlemen used to "swallow" larger chunks of the development projects money.
Online monitoring helped the government streamline the public distribution system as well as in effective monitoring of Covid cases, Adityanath said.
Due to widespread use of e-platform, the Uttar Pradesh PDS system is the most transparent in the country, he asserted.
The chief minister said the state government will continue to distribute one crore tablets among the youth as part of its 2017 poll promise.
The Samajwadi Party has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission on making available tablets when the model code of conduct was in operation in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh.
"Let him cry. We will distribute one crore tablets among youth and this figure will double up to two crore after March 10," he said.
Elections are being held in seven phases in Uttar Pradesh and the results will be declared on March 10.
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India to get first national security semiconductor fabrication plant
Wilmington (PTI): Under a transformative collaboration with the US, India will get a national security semiconductor fabrication plant that will produce chips for use in military hardware and next-generation telecommunications.
The India-US joint project was announced following talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden in Wilmington on Saturday.
A joint fact sheet on Modi-Biden talks said the two leaders "hailed" the semiconductor project as a "watershed arrangement".
It will be the first ever India-US semiconductor fabrication partnership.
It is the first time ever the US military has agreed to do a partnership for these highly-value technologies with India and it is a watershed moment as it is as significant as the civil nuclear deal, people familiar with the matter said.
"President Biden and Prime Minister Modi hailed a watershed arrangement to establish a new semiconductor fabrication plant focused on advanced sensing, communication, and power electronics for national security, next-generation telecommunications, and green energy applications," the fact sheet noted.
It said the "fab, which will be established with the objective of manufacturing infrared, gallium nitride and silicon carbide semiconductors, will be enabled by support from the India semiconductor mission as well as a strategic technology partnership between Bharat Semi, 3rdiTech, and the US Space Force."
The Fab becomes not only India’s first, but one of the world's first multi-material fabs for national security, the people cited above said.
The fact sheet said Modi and Biden praised combined efforts to facilitate resilient, secure, and sustainable semiconductor supply chains including through GlobalFoundries' (GF) creation of the GF Kolkata Power Center in Kolkata.
It said the project will enhance mutually beneficial linkages in research and development in chip manufacturing.
"The leaders welcomed steps our industry is taking to build safe, secure, and resilient supply chains for US, Indian, and international automotive markets, including through Ford Motor Company's submission of a Letter of Intent to utilize its Chennai plant to manufacture for export to global markets," the document said.
It said Modi and Biden commended ongoing efforts to build more expansive cooperation around 5G deployment and next-generation telecommunications.
This includes the US Agency for International Development's plans to expand the Asia Open RAN Academy with an initial USD 7 million investment to grow this workforce training initiative worldwide, including in South Asia with Indian institutions.
