LUCKNOW: The Yogi Adityanath cabinet cleared 29 proposals at its meeting on Wednesday, some of them aimed at boosting religious tourism by upgrading the road network in Ayodhya and Mathura while generating employment especially in rural Uttar Pradesh (UP) where the ruling BJP recently swept the rural panchayat polls for the first time.
A 42-kilometre by-pass project, directly connecting Kaushambi to Prayagraj, too was cleared to improve connectivity with Kaushambi, where several archaeological remains of Buddhist period have been found and which, the Yogi government wants to develop on par with other prominent Buddhist circuit sites like Sarnath, Kushinagar, Kapilvastu and Shravasti.
