Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], August 31 (ANI): In simply ten months, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led authorities has recognized 13.32 lakh of the state’s poorest households underneath the Zero Poverty Campaign, setting a brand new benchmark in poverty eradication, an official assertion from the UP Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) stated.
Of these, greater than 3.72 lakh households are already receiving multidimensional advantages, underscoring the federal government’s dedication to uplifting the underprivileged, in line with a launch.
CM Yogi first introduced the marketing campaign in his Independence Day handle on August 15, 2024, and formally launched it on October 2, 2024. The mission goals to make sure that no household is left disadvantaged of fundamental wants or social safety, with a goal to determine at the very least 25 ultra-poor households in each Gram Panchayat.
Each household is being linked to housing, employment, healthcare, schooling, and livelihood alternatives to safe long-term transformation underneath the drive.
As of August 2025, Azamgarh leads with 42,082 households recognized, adopted by Jaunpur (39,374), Sitapur (36,571), Hardoi (30,050), and Prayagraj (28,935). Special drives with panchayats and voluntary organisations are accelerating outreach in these districts.
The Chief Minister has emphasised that the marketing campaign extends past monetary assist; it goals to get rid of poverty totally by 2027.
The recognized households are being built-in with flagship schemes, together with PM Awas Yojana, Mukhyamantri Awas Yojana, Jal Jeevan Mission, Ujjwala Yojana, Ayushman Bharat, and MGNREGA, alongside help for schooling and girls’s empowerment by way of self-help teams, a launch stated.
With data-driven monitoring, shut monitoring, and grassroots transparency, the Zero Poverty Campaign is quick rising as a transformative mission to make Uttar Pradesh poverty-free, with energetic participation from society at massive.
A day earlier, the Chief Minister additionally visited Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya to examine the preservation work being carried out underneath the National Mission for Manuscripts.
CM Yogi carefully monitored the progress of preserving uncommon manuscripts and instructed that the tempo of labor be accelerated.
The Chief Minister reviewed the preservation works being carried out by the National Mission for Manuscripts on the college’s extension constructing with the help of the Government of India. He additionally enquired concerning the progress of the historic Saraswati Bhavan Library and different building works. (ANI)