Sankalp Bus Service

UP CM Adityanath flags off 50 'Sankalp Seva' buses in Lucknow

Question: Sankalp bus service is recently started by which of the following State Government?
(a) Uttar Pradesh
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Bihar
(d) Uttarakhand
Answer: (a) 
Related Facts:
 

  • On October 11, 2017, Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched the ‘Sankalp Seva’ (Bus Service) of UP Transport Corporation.
  • On this occasion he flagged off 50 buses.
  • To provide better facilities to the common man, all the unnerved villages of the state are being connected to the Sankalp bus service.
  • It is known that transport services were available only in 59 thousand 560 villages in 98 thousand Inhabited villages of the state after the present government came to rule.
  • In order to facilitate bus services to the unnerved villages, the transport corporation were entrusted with the goal of providing transport services to 38, 254 unserved villages.
  • Phase-wise action has been taken to provide transport facilities to 9 563 villages for each year for this work.
  • In the same sequence, till November 2017, the target of connecting 9 thousand 563 villages with transport services has been fixed for the year 2017-18.
  • The 4 thousand 766 villages have been linked with transport service through the available resources in the 6 months tenure of the present government.

Reference:
http://information.up.nic.in/View_Hindinews.aspx?id=698
http://www.uttarpradesh.org/uttarpradesh/sankalp-bus-service-upsrtc-33795/