Overview
- The cabinet approved adding 27.102 acres to the site, taking the museum footprint to 52.102 acres with the land shifting free of cost from Housing and Urban Planning to the Tourism Department.
- Tata Sons will develop and operate the facility through a Section 8 special purpose vehicle funded by CSR, with representatives from the Union government, Uttar Pradesh and the company on its board.
- The original 25-acre parcel in Manjha Jamthara remains under a 90-year lease at a nominal ₹1 per year as per the September 3, 2024 tripartite MoU.
- New District Disability Rehabilitation Centres will be established across all 18 administrative divisions to provide single-window diagnostics, assistive devices and rehabilitation services.
- Urban drinking-water upgrades worth ₹582.74 crore under AMRUT 2.0 were sanctioned for Bareilly and Kanpur, while the state also classified appointed athletes’ competition and training periods as duty and cleared an MoU with SAI to develop Varanasi’s Dr. Sampurnanand Stadium as a National Center of Excellence.