lucknow the centre on friday sanctioned rs 1263 crore for uttar pradesh in a bid to include the state in the allindia development agendasetting a new trend by visiting the state to review its requirements union urban development and ib minister venkaiah naidu said that the sanctioned amount included the first instalment of funds to cities under smart cities schemesince the modi government is determined to make the country developed development of the state is essential naidu said adding that unfortunately the previous government didnt cooperate with the centre as was required i am not making allegations as people of the state have already replied through their mandate naidu said he though added that the yogi government was moving in right direction our priority is to remove up from the list of bimaru states naidu said adding that while reviewing the schemes efforts were also made to resolve the issues the union minister said that the funds released on friday included rs 119 crore for lucknow rs 107 crore each for agra kanpur and varanasi as first instalment under the smart city scheme while rs 2 crore each had been sanctioned for meerut and rae bareli to prepare a proposal to become part of the schemenaidu said that the amount would also fund the amrut scheme named after former prime minister atal bihari vajpayee while the first and second instalments have already been released the third instalment of rs 300 crore was sanctioned today naidu said he said that ayodhya has also been added under the amrut scheme taking the total to 61 citiessimilarly under the urban transport scheme rs 446 crore in total had been given for lucknow metro as part of centres equitythe cm has also given assurance that rera which has been passed by the parliament will be implemented and has also given a commit ment to appoint a real estate regulatory authority naidu said adding that the issues highlighted by the cm pertaining to builders in noida and greater noida would be sorted out after the regulatory authority is formed in upnaidu said that it is prime minister narendra modis wish to provide houses to all by 2022 but the state is lagging in construction of houses under the pradhan mantri awas yojna despite writing 11 letters to state governments only proposals for only 11000 houses were received from up as compared to proposals for 19 lakh units from andhra pradesh and 23 lakh units from tamil nadu he claimedit is because of this that i have asked the chief minister to send more proposals for 201718 naidu said adding that proposals for at least five to six lakh units are expected for this fiscal from up elaborating naidu said that besides the interest rebate of 65 per cent for the poor the centre would give an aid of rs 23 lakh for construction of houses to women similarly as per the prime ministers announcement of sabka sapna ghar ho apna a four per