Uttar Pradesh's uneasy tryst with business

State govt is showcasing 'improved' law and order, but that alone won't be enough

On October 23, when the representatives of 26 US corporate majors — including Boeing, Facebook, Adobe, Oracle, and Cargill — met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow, tucked away between the old chestnuts about infrastructure in the dialogues were significant takeaways from the state government. 

The upshots were the promise to effect a “flexible” labour policy that’s afoot and, more importantly, demonstrating with data the “transformed” law and order situation that had “slumped” to the nadir during the Samajwadi Party regime. 

Health Minister Sidharth Nath Singh, who anchored the meeting under the banner of the US-India Strategic Partnership