Lucknow, February 22: The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision has laid the foundation for India’s overall development. The heights the country has reached in the last 11 years are amazing and astonishing. The Uttar Pradesh government is working rapidly towards making Lucknow an Artificial Intelligence (AI) city while advancing Digital India.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was addressing the inauguration ceremony of the IBM AI GovTech Innovation Center held in Lucknow on Sunday. The event was held at the IBM office in Platinum Mall, Sushant Golf City. On this occasion, an MoU was also signed between IBM India and the Uttar Pradesh government, and both parties expressed confidence in working together to strengthen the digital sector in Uttar Pradesh.
At the event, Chief Minister Yogi praised the AI โโSummit held in Delhi and said that the success of Digital India is visible on various platforms across the world. He said that Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, has made rapid progress in every field. He expressed hope that Uttar Pradesh will benefit from the agreements signed with IBM.
Reiterating his statement regarding Digital India during the Assembly’s budget session, he said that encephalitis/meningitis has been a deadly scourge for children in the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh (especially the Gorakhpur-Basti division) for the past four decades, with over 50,000 deaths reported so far. However, when we analyzed the data on the causes, we found that this disease is caused by lack of clean water and open defecation. In such a situation, our government provided pure water through the Jal Jeevan Mission and under Prime Minister Modi’s mission of building toilets in every house, diseases came under control. Similarly, the dropout rate of school children was also reduced to zero, whereas earlier it was much higher because analysis revealed that girls used to leave school due to lack of toilets for girls. But now every school has built separate toilets for boys and girls, so girls started coming to study and the dropout rate became zero.
On this occasion, Anurag Yadav, Principal Secretary of IT and Electronics Department of Uttar Pradesh Government, former Chief Secretary Manoj Kumar Singh, Chief Minister’s Advisor Awanish Awasthi, IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna, Vice President Vishal Chanchal and General Manager Sandeep Patil etc. were mainly present.