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Sources and image credits.
Sources keep their original titles. Each entry says whether we read the page directly or used a search excerpt. Older reports describe what happened then, not necessarily today's services. Some research notes remain in English; image credits are below.
The Purvanchal Expressway: project details and inauguration
Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority
Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: 340.824 km, six lanes, Lucknow-Ghazipur alignment; inauguration on 16 November 2021; state implementing authority.
Limits: Undated living project page contains historical construction language. It is not a 2026 maintenance or travel-time audit.
Bundelkhand Expressway Access Controlled Project
Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority
Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: 296.070 km, Chitrakoot-Etawah alignment; inauguration on 16 July 2022; four lanes expandable to six.
Limits: Project specifications and opening record do not establish current road quality, industrial investment, or household income effects.
Prime Minister inaugurates the completed section of Kanpur Metro
Press Information Bureau / Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Source date: 28 Dec 2021 · Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: Opening of the 9 km IIT Kanpur-Moti Jheel priority section on 28 December 2021, not the entire planned network.
Limits: Indexed official release was readable in search evidence; direct retrieval returned HTTP 403. Reopen the original before public launch; no present ridership claim.
PM inaugurates and lays foundation stone for multiple connectivity projects
Press Information Bureau / Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Source date: 6 Mar 2024 · Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: Agra Metro section from Taj East Gate to Mankameshwar inaugurated and train services flagged off on 6 March 2024.
Limits: Evidence is an indexed official release, not a current timetable or proof that all planned Agra corridors are complete.
PM inaugurates Kushinagar International Airport
Prime Minister's Office
Source date: 20 Oct 2021 · Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: Inauguration of Kushinagar International Airport on 20 October 2021.
Limits: Historical opening does not establish current scheduled flights, international routes, passenger demand, or tourism growth. Official sites blocked direct retrieval.
PM inaugurates Maharishi Valmiki International Airport at Ayodhya Dham
Press Information Bureau / Prime Minister's Office
Source date: 30 Dec 2023 · Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: Ayodhya airport inauguration on 30 December 2023; phase-one opening.
Limits: Indexed official release; direct retrieval blocked. Published capacity is a design figure, not observed passenger numbers; later phases are not counted as delivered.
Development projects including AIIMS dedicated in Gorakhpur
Prime Minister's Office
Source date: 7 Dec 2021 · Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: AIIMS Gorakhpur dedicated on 7 December 2021; foundation stone predates the 2017 state administration.
Limits: Indexed release, direct retrieval HTTP 403. Central institution; opening is not proof of current staffing, waiting times, or patient outcomes.
Address at the inauguration of nine medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh
Press Information Bureau / Prime Minister's Office
Source date: 25 Oct 2021 · Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: Nine medical colleges inaugurated from Siddharthnagar on 25 October 2021.
Limits: Indexed official speech, direct retrieval HTTP 403. Does not verify each institution's current recognition, staffing, bed availability, or course intake.
About the Uttar Pradesh One District One Product programme
Government of Uttar Pradesh / ODOP
Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: State programme supporting traditional district products through finance, skills, branding, infrastructure, and market access.
Limits: Programme purpose is not proof of independently measured income or export effects.
ODOP government orders
Government of Uttar Pradesh / ODOP
Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: Dated 2018 financial-assistance and common-facility orders, followed by marketing and training orders.
Limits: Used to establish a documented 2018 programme period, not an independently verified exact launch day, beneficiary count, or export total.
Kashi Sansad Sanskritik Mahotsav and dedication of Atal Awasiya Vidyalayas
Press Information Bureau / Prime Minister's Office
Source date: 23 Sept 2023 · Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: This event release explicitly records inauguration of 16 Atal Awasiya Vidyalayas on 23 September 2023.
Limits: Do not replace 16 with a scheme-wide 18-school headline. Indexed release contains an event-specific count; obtain a current state roll-up before claiming a statewide total or learning outcome.
PM inaugurates Shri Kashi Vishwanath Dham in Varanasi
Prime Minister's Office
Source date: 13 Dec 2021 · Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: Kashi Vishwanath Dham inauguration on 13 December 2021.
Limits: Official event record, not an independent assessment of tourism, displacement, economic returns, or the full history of the project.
Development projects inaugurated and foundation stones laid in Kanpur
Press Information Bureau / Prime Minister's Office
Source date: 30 May 2025 · Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: 660 MW Panki Thermal Power Extension inaugurated; Kanpur Metro extension among the 30 May 2025 projects.
Limits: The event mixes completed projects and foundation stones. Only the explicitly inaugurated items are described as opened. Nameplate capacity is not generation, reliability, affordability, or an environmental benefit.
Yogi Adityanath: biography and political career
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: Birth date 5 June 1972; family roots in Panchur; forest-ranger father; first Lok Sabha election in 1998; subsequent parliamentary career.
Limits: Indexed reference article; direct retrieval HTTP 403. Biography sources differ over exact birthplace/name spellings; use childhood roots rather than an absolute birthplace claim.
Boy who became Yogi
The Week / Pratul Sharma
Source date: 28 May 2017 · Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: Reported Panchur upbringing, government schooling, forest-department father Anand Singh Bisht, mother Savitri Devi, 1994 monastic initiation under Mahant Avaidyanath.
Limits: Family-interview reporting from 2017, not a financial audit. Do not infer destitution, invent childhood quotations, or treat reported recollections as independently measured facts.
PM congratulates the new UP government sworn in
Prime Minister's Office
Source date: 19 Mar 2017 · Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: Yogi Adityanath and the Uttar Pradesh government took oath on 19 March 2017.
Limits: Historical appointment record only; does not support promises or predictions for 2027.
Yogi Adityanath takes oath as Uttar Pradesh CM for second term
ANI, carried by Gulf News
Source date: 25 Mar 2022 · Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: Second consecutive chief-ministerial oath on 25 March 2022.
Limits: News-agency report. The second term is ongoing as of the research date, not described as completed.
Yogi Adithyanath in Uttar Pradesh 2023: image and license
Prime Minister's Office; Wikimedia Commons
Source date: 23 Sept 2023 · Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Research note (English)
Supports: Portrait extracted from a PMO photograph of the 23 September 2023 Varanasi stadium foundation-stone event; Commons identifies GODL-India and reviewed attribution.
Limits: Credit PMO, link source/license, identify the crop, do not imply endorsement. The photograph is not evidence that the pictured stadium was completed.
Images and reuse credits
Photos have been checked for permission to reuse, with source and license links below. Our own illustrations are labelled and released under CC0. An illustration is not a project photograph, and using a photo does not mean its creator endorses this site.
Yogi Adithyanath in Uttar Pradesh 2023
Varanasi, 23 September 2023. Cropped PMO photograph; use does not imply endorsement.
Prime Minister's Office GODL-IndiaChecked on: 6 Nov 2026
Image changes and reuse
Cropped extraction published on Commons; displayed with responsive cropping.
Kanpur MetroTrain at a station
Kanpur Metro, photographed on 4 August 2022; not the 2021 opening ceremony.
Dr Vinamra CC BY-SA 4.0Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Image changes and reuse
Wikimedia 960 px resized copy; cards use a CSS crop; article displays the full frame. Image adaptations retain CC BY-SA 4.0.
Agra Metro Inside 1
Agra Metro interior, 25 March 2024; a dated photograph, not a current service guarantee.
Rangan Datta Wiki CC BY-SA 4.0Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Image changes and reuse
Wikimedia 960 px resized copy; cards use a CSS crop; article displays the full frame. Image adaptations retain CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kushinagar International Airport 2021
Kushinagar airport in 2021. The source dates the photograph to April, before the October inauguration.
VishuN CC BY-SA 4.0Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Image changes and reuse
Wikimedia 960 px resized copy; cards use a CSS crop; article displays the full frame. Image adaptations retain CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ayodhya International Airport
Ayodhya airport, 3 January 2025; a later photograph, not the December 2023 inauguration.
Benison CC BY-SA 4.0Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Image changes and reuse
Wikimedia 960 px resized copy; cards use a CSS crop; article displays the full frame. Image adaptations retain CC BY-SA 4.0.
AIIMS Gorakhpur In Nutshell
AIIMS Gorakhpur main gate, 15 May 2022; the image does not establish present clinical services.
Abhishek Pandey CC BY-SA 4.0Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Image changes and reuse
Wikimedia 960 px resized copy; cards use a CSS crop; article displays the full frame. Image adaptations retain CC BY-SA 4.0.
Craft Artisans of India 02
Illustrative Lucknow embroidery, 11 February 2021. This is not evidence that the pictured work or maker received ODOP assistance.
CraftArtisansofIndia CC BY-SA 4.0Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Image changes and reuse
Wikimedia 960 px resized copy; cards use a CSS crop; article displays the full frame. Image adaptations retain CC BY-SA 4.0.
Address at the inauguration of Kashi Vishwanath Dham, 13 December 2021
Kashi Vishwanath Dham inauguration, 13 December 2021. PMO photograph; no endorsement is implied.
Prime Minister's Office GODL-IndiaChecked on: 6 Nov 2026
Image changes and reuse
Wikimedia 960 px resized copy; cards use a CSS crop; article displays the full frame.
Poorvanchal Expressway foundation-stone ceremony, 14 July 2018
Purvanchal Expressway foundation-stone ceremony, Azamgarh, 14 July 2018. This earlier event is not the November 2021 opening. PMO photograph; no endorsement is implied.
Prime Minister's Office GODL-IndiaChecked on: 6 Nov 2026
Image changes and reuse
Wikimedia 960 px resized copy; cards use a CSS crop; article displays the full frame.
Madhav Prashad Tripathi Medical College Siddharthnagar
Siddharthnagar medical college, photographed on 26 May 2026. A later view of one institution, not the October 2021 ceremony or evidence of current staffing at all nine colleges.
MoShafique CC0 1.0Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Image changes and reuse
Wikimedia 960 px PNG resized copy converted locally to JPEG; cards use a CSS crop. The source's CC0 dedication permits commercial reuse.
Bundelkhand Expressway - original road illustration
Original conceptual illustration, not a photograph or a route map. The 296.070 km figure is the project length in the article's source; it does not depict current road conditions.
Yogi2027 CC0 1.0Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Image changes and reuse
Original vector illustration created for this site and dedicated to CC0. No external artwork, photograph or map is incorporated.
Atal residential schools - original education illustration
Original conceptual illustration, not a school photograph or campus plan. The 16 refers only to the 23 September 2023 event release, not a claim about the full scheme or learning outcomes.
Yogi2027 CC0 1.0Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Image changes and reuse
Original vector illustration created for this site and dedicated to CC0. No external artwork or actual school design is incorporated.
Panki extension - original generation-capacity illustration
Original conceptual illustration, not a Panki plant photograph or engineering plan. The 660 MW is nameplate capacity, not actual generation, household supply or a clean-energy claim.
Yogi2027 CC0 1.0Checked on: 6 Nov 2026
Image changes and reuse
Original vector illustration created for this site and dedicated to CC0. No external artwork or actual plant engineering diagram is incorporated.