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One more windfall for Mulayam village

Saifai to have sports college for girls; training centre for ITI staff in Lucknow soon

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh's first sports college for girls would be set up in Saifai, Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav's home village in Etawah district. The proposal was cleared at a Cabinet meeting chaired by the Chief Minister here on Tuesday.

The project will cost Rs 16.63 crores and the college will become functional in the next two years.

The Saifai Girls' Sports College will be affiliated with the Uttar Pradesh Sports College Control Society, Lucknow, which already has two sports colleges, the Guru Gobind Singh Sports College in Lucknow and the Vir Bahadur Singh Sports College in Gorakhpur, under its wing. However, these two are exclusively for boys.

According to State Chief Secretary N. C. Bajpai, the college at Saifai would be equipped with high-class facilities. Saifai already has a sports stadium, including an astro-turf for staging national level hockey tournaments. The Cabinet also approved introduction of a fashion technology course for women trainees in 17 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) at Meerut, Agra, Bareilly, Moradabad, Jhansi, Banda, Kanpur, Faizabad, Gonda, Azamgarh, Gorakhpur, Allahabad, Varanasi, Saharanpur, Mirzapur, Basti and Lucknow.

Seventeen new posts of instructors will be created in the pay scale of Rs. 5,000 -Rs. 8,000 to impart training to girls in fashion technology. The Chief Secretary said a budgetary provision of Rs 123.47 lakhs had been made for the purpose.

Mr Bajpai said the Cabinet also approved setting up of a regional training and research centre for staff at ITI Aliganj in Lucknow for which 50 new posts would be created. Besides, the Cabinet cleared the way for promotion of anganwadi workers who had attained the age of 45 years without being promoted as Mukhya Sevikas. The age limit was raised to 50 years and the move would enable around 300 anganwadi workers to avail of the benefits of promotion.

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