`4,000cr UP projects to mark Maya’s 55th b’day

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Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati marked her 55th birthday on Saturday by dedicating to the people around 600 projects and welfare schemes worth over `4,000 crores. These include 200 new schemes and 400 ongoing projects.
The chief minister also inaugurated a newly-constructed Ambedkar Auditorium in the Dr Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University that has a seating capacity of over 3,000 people and is the biggest in the country.
The CM also announced the UP Janhit Guarantee Ordinance that will make government employees accountable to the people.

She further announced a `100 hike for those covered under the Mukhya Mantri Mahamaya Garib Arthik Madad Yojana, which is meant for those who are not beneficiaries in any other state or Central scheme. Till now, they were entitled to `300 per month; now they shall be entitled to `400 per month.
The chief minister also launched 15 mobile medical vans and inaugurated a sewage treatment plant with a capacity of 345 mld in Bharwara.
Other projects unveiled by the CM on her birthday include memorials, statues, roads, bridges, flyovers, sewage treatment plants, water supply and drainage schemes, power installations and other major and minor infrastructure units for different parts of the state.
The chief minister announced a 10 per cent hike in the dearness allowance of state employees, effective from July 1, 2010.
Cakes weighing 55 kg each were cut to celebrate the chief minister’s birthday while a group of Buddhist monks were specially invited to bless her on the occasion. Besides this, mass marriages for girls belonging to poor families were held and sweets distributed. BSP leaders were directed to help — financially, or in any other way — at least 50 needy people in each Assembly constituency.
The entire state capital was bathed in blue lights, particularly monuments and parks built by her, and the skyline was dotted with hundreds of hoardings wishing her a happy birthday. Everyone — from political leaders to ticket aspirants and assorted businessmen — appeared to be greeting Ms Mayawati with larger-than-life hoardings.