Even as Uttar Pradesh gears up for laying the foundation of projects totalling more than Rs 1 trillion in December, the Yogi Adityanath government has also planned to draft new policies in job-oriented sectors of handicraft and retail to amplify its ‘ease of doing business’ pitch New policies have also been planned in some other sectors, including financial services and data centres. UP Chief Secretary Anup Chandra Pandey has directed officials to expedite the process of drafting these new policies. Meanwhile, a high-level meeting will be held in Lucknow on November 2-3 with investors and industrialists, whose projects constitute the total of 158 projects worth Rs 1 trillion lined up for the ‘ground breaking ceremony’ in December 2018, the dates of which would be ascertained in due course.