The Samajwadi Party government, under its young chief minister Akhilesh Yadav's leadership, tried to evolve a growth-focused economic atmosphere, but continuous political battles and numerous controversies kept hogging the focus and the development continued to take a backseat during the year.
Adding to the troubles, real estate sector -- a showpiece for economic developments in this state -- also faced turbulent times due to problems on various fronts including land acquisition, farmer protests and environment norms.
The power scenario also remained gloomy, largely due to a spat between the state and central government, while a lot of attempts were made in areas like roads and rivers.
The Chief Minister also went to the Netherlands to attract foreign investors in sectors like agriculture and dairy.
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The state government launched a metro project for Lucknow and an ambitious Lucknow-Agra Expressway project to link the historic town of Taj Mahal to the capital.
The Agra-Lucknow Expressway project, with an estimated cost of Rs 10,500 crore, will cut down travel time between two cities to three and half hours, from six hours at present.
The government has also chalked out an scheme to construct an IT city, a state of the art medicity, an administrative training institute and an international stadium on 846 acre land near Lucknow.
A blame game continued for most part of the year over power crisis in the state, with the state government accusing the Centre of discrimination over supply of coal, among other issues.
The crisis, however, appeared to be headed towards getting resolved towards the end of the year following a visit of Union Minister Piyush Goyal and his meeting with the Chief Minister.