LUCKNOW, Nov. 6 -- Projecting Uttar Pradesh's transformation under his government as a key achievement, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said the state had moved from being counted among the country's bottom five states to emerging among the top three in economic development, with improvements in law and order and transparent recruitment changing its national image.

Addressing a programme to distribute appointment letters to 28 scientific officers selected through the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC), Adityanath said the state was no longer discussed in the context of crime, lawlessness and administrative failures but was increasingly cited as a model when issues of law and order, transparent recruitment and deve...