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Eight years after the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority’s 2009 Plot Scheme was announced, the authority will begin handing over of the plots to the allottees in October. These plots are sized between 1,292 sqf and 43,000 sqf and the price of these plots have gone up three times since the time of allotment.

The Ministry of Urban Development has released smart city rankings which places Nagpur on top, followed by Vadodara and Ahmedabad. These rankings were based on various parameters, including expenditure, project implementation and performance of civic bodies in the past four years. Out of 99 smart cities, 12 were not evaluated since the third list was released very recently.

Although planned for high-speed commuting, Yamuna Expressway has now become a notorious accident-prone stretch, raising safety concerns. The media has reported several cases of traffic violations, leading to 105 and 110 accidental deaths on the expressway in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

The Uttar Pradesh Budget 2018-19 has now been tabled by Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Rajesh Agarwal. In his Budget Speech, Agarwal announced an outlay of Rs 4.28 lakh crore for welfare and related services, 11.40 per cent more than what it was last year. In this Budget, the state government will focus on health, education, employment, rural and urban development, the poor and women development.

During the past one year, to better the connectivity, many Metro projects have been announced across the country. However, in the Union Budget 2018-19, these projects have been given an allocation of Rs 15,000 crore, 20 per cent lower than the allocation for the 2017-18 fiscal. Moreover, there has been no bifurcation of the outlay. What impact will this have on the under-construction Metro projects? Will the states be able to implement these projects in the set timeline?