Lucknow, Sept. 2 -- The Uttar Pradesh government has started the exercise to meet the needs of the population of small cities before the three-tier Panchayat elections in the state, official sources said here today.
Sources said that for this, the government is considering allocating the budget under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Yojana to more than 60 urban local bodies with lesser population. "The Urban Development Department has selected 66 Urban Local Bodies in 34 districts for this, which will benefit from Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Yojana in the coming months," they said.
Sources in the Urban Development Department, with the aim of improving Nagar Panchayats with a population of less than 50,000, an additional budget is provided to ULBs by the Urb...