LUCKNOW, April 8 -- The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday approved a final bid document for procuring 25 lakh tablets for free distribution to youths under the Swami Vivekanand Yuva Sashaktikaran Yojana. In a meeting presided over by chief minister Yogi Adityanath, the state cabinet also approved 22 proposals, including the one to release letters of comfort to six companies for investment of Rs.7,608.04 crore. The cabinet also approved disbursement of Rs.4.04-crore subsidy to Triveni Engineering and an amendment to correction in the Avaada Electro Limited's letter of comfort. Briefing media persons about the state cabinet decisions, finance minister Suresh Khanna said the state government has already distributed 60 lakh smartphones and tablets under the Swami Vivekanand Yuva Sashaktikaran Yojana. The minister said a provision of Rs.2,000 crore was made for the scheme in the state's annual budget for the year 2025-2026, and appropriate arrangements have been made for the current financial year. He said the decision would help students pursuing diploma, graduate and post-graduate courses, skill development and other programmes. Khanna said the objective is to technically empower youths in higher, technical and health education, and skill development training programmes and create new job avenues. The cabinet approved a format to lease land to 99 Hindu Bengali families displaced from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), who are being rehabilitated in Bhaisayan and Tajpur Tarsauli villages in Rasoolabad, Kanpur Dehat. These families were earlier shifted from Nagla Gosain in Mawana tehsil of Meerut. The cabinet had approved the rehabilitation decision on February 29, 2026. It has now fixed a nominal lease rent of Rs.1 and cleared the lease format. A proposal to grant non-transferable land ownership rights to families displaced during the Partition who are settled in Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Rampur and Bijnor was also cleared. The beneficiaries include those eligible for citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, as well as Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe families and those settled under rehabilitation schemes. These families had been denied ownership rights for 50-70 years, affecting their access to bank loans and government procurement facilities. Finance minister Suresh Khanna said the rights are being given through an amendment in the UP Revenue Code through Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code (second amendment) Ordinance 2026. With this decision, 2,350 families would be benefitted in Kheri, 4,000 in Pilibhit, 2,174 in Rampur and 3,856 in Bijnor. The cabinet also approved the draft UP Vaniki evam Audyaniki University Ordinance-2026 to set up a forestry and horticulture university at Campierganj in Gorakhpur. The proposed university will be established with estimated cost of Rs.491 crore on 50 hectares of land. A proposal for the construction of a 2.1-km-long bridge in Chhibramu assembly constituency area of Kannauj was also approved. Currently, boats are only means of crossing Ganga near Chiasar Ghat and Chyavan Rishi Ashram, and services are suspended during the rains. The bridge will be built on the EPC model at an estimated cost of Rs.288.89 crore and is expected to benefit around four lakh people in Kannauj and Hardoi districts. The cabinet approved the governor's message under Article 175 (2) of the Constitution of India to both Houses of the state legislature to reconsider the Uttar Pradesh Madrasa (payment of teachers and other employees) Bill 2016. The bill has not been approved as the centre raised objections about the provisions under Section 11 (3) of the Bill that were in contradiction to provisions of sections 2C and 41 (1) of the CrPC. The revised cost of Rs.437 crore for setting up a state medical college in Ballia was cleared. Minister of state for transport (independent charge) Dayashankar Singh said the university would be named after Maharishi Bhrigu. He said land has been reserved for a memorial in the name of freedom fighter and revolutionary Chittu Pandey....