Current Affairs - Uttar Pradesh

In order to give impetus to the perfume industry, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to develop Kannauj as a perfume tourism destination.

• It will also hold an international perfume fair in Kannauj in December.

Uttar Pradesh government is planning to build an education township in the state.

• It will provide high-quality education to the youth and equip them with a variety of professional skills in a single place.

The century-old Nawab Wajid Ali Shah Zoological Garden in Lucknow (popularly known as Lucknow Zoo) will now be shifted to Kukrail forest area, about 12 km away from its current location in Narhi.

• The move is aimed at decongesting the overcrowded Narhi area because of the presence of the zoological garden.

A natural history museum is coming up in Uttar Pradesh on the Lucknow Zoo campus and is expected to be ready by March 2023.

The museum will be the first-of-its-kind in Uttar Pradesh and will have nearly 6,000 specimens of animals and birds collected by experts over the past 200 years from different places across the world.