UP cabinet transfers delayed JPNIC project to LDA for completion

Lucknow, July 3 -- In a key decision during a cabinet meeting, the Uttar Pradesh government transferred the long-delayed Jai Prakash Narayan International Centre (JPNIC) project to the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA).

The centre, which allegedly was mired in corruption during the previous Samajwadi Party government, will now be completed and operated by the LDA. The society set up for its management has been dissolved.

The cabinet, today, resolved to dissolve the JPNIC Society and hand over the project to LDA in its current state. LDA will now oversee the completion, operation, and maintenance of the centre. The LDA has been granted full authority to run the project through private participation, define operational procedures and ...