Dedicates Rs. 17.45 crore Mini Secretariat at Barsar, says Rs. 96 crore being spent on roads
Rs. 300 crore being spent on Cancer Institute in Hamirpur medical college
Rs. 65 crore scheme for beautification of Baba Balak Nath Temple
Punjab Newsline, Shimla-
While addressing a mammoth public gathering at Barsar assembly constituency in Hamirpur district today, Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu announced GSSS Barsar as CBSE schools from next academic session. He said that so far 20 government schools have received recognition from the CBSE board.
He announced up-gradation of Barsar hospital to 100 bed and said that Rs. 300 crore was being spent on the Cancer Institute in Hamirpur medical college. He announced to open indoor stadium and parking facility at Barsar. He also announced to start MA and M.Com classes in local government college and to install solar and high mast lights in various gram panchayats and main market of the area.
The Chief Minster said that Rs. 100 crore would be spent for creating seven special departments in Medical College and Hospital Hamirpur. He said that all the roads in the district were being double-laned and a provision of Rs. 37 crore has been made for Saloni-Deotsidh road. The Chief Minister stated that a sum of Rs. 96 crore was being spent on strengthening the roads in Barsar Vidhan Sabha area. Rs. 65 crore scheme has been approved for beautification of Baba Balak Nath shrine and its surroundings.
He said that the BJP government hardly gave any funds for the mini secretariat building Barsar. Our government gave Rs. 16.50 crore for completion of the mini secretariat, which was completed with an outlay of Rs 17.45 crore. Our Government also gave funds for the furniture and library.
Launching a scathing attack on the BJP, the Chief Minister said that during their regime, the BJP constructed buildings worth Rs. 1000 crore in the name of development which were lying vacant besides they announced opening of 600 schools just before the general elections without making any provisions for teaching faculty. The standard of education deteriorated during their regime and the State's ranking came down to 21 position.
"It was quite a herculean task for the Government as how to bring about the reforms in education sector and to make it better, besides balancing the student-teachers ratio so that every school has adequate teaching staff to teach children. The results started pouring in and with the strenuous efforts the government, the State achieved 5th ranking in Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) in the field of Education", he stated.
The BJP never thought for generating resources and spend the funds on the welfare of the people, he said. It could we well analyzed from the fact, that during their regime it was a practice that the license of the liquor vends were always renewed to benefit the favourites on 10 percent premium every year. As soon as my Government took over, we took a decision to auction liquor vends and generated an income of Rs 450 crore then, which the BJP could not do during its five years of its regime. Apart from this, we saved Rs. 3000 crore by closing doors of corruption and introduced schemes for widows and Children from the funds thus saved.
"I don’t differentiate people or regions on basis of political affiliations but I want to ensure development of all regions at par", stated the Chief Minister. The announcement of Rs. 1500 crore relief package by Prime Minister for disaster affected has not been received so far. The Chief Minister urged all the seven Member of Parliament MP's from the State to help getting the funds so announced by the Prime Minister, for disaster affected people.
He said that the State Government was making a determined push to revive the ailing healthcare system by launching a focused initiative under ‘Vyavastha Parivartan’, a systemic transformation of public health institutions aimed at delivering much-needed relief and improved services to the people. The Government has decided to invest over Rs. 3000 crore to enhance modern health services and develop and expand health infrastructure, stated Sh. Sukhu and has opened 69 Model Health Institutions across the State. Advanced equipment is being procured for these institutions as well as for all other health facilities in the State. The Government have replaced almost over 19 to 20 years old machines in IGMC Shimla and similarly the other medical institutions will soon have modern health equipment to facilitate the people. My Government will soon appoint six specialists doctors in all the remaining 'Adarsh Swasthya Sansthans' in every constituency soon, said the Chief Minister.
The State government have enhanced the disaster relief fund for construction of houses destroyed completely and partially besides the compensation for damaged cow sheds. We will soon announce a special package for disaster affected and adequate provision of would be made for disaster affected families, he said.
My governments budget was aimed at taking forward and strengthen the rural economy, said Sh. Suku, adding that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) of maize grown through natural farming has been increased from Rs. 30 to Rs. 40 per kg and the MSP of wheat from Rs. 40 per kg to Rs. 60 per kg. The government has also fixed the MSP for turmeric grown through natural farming at Rs. 90 per kg. With the aim of benefiting the cattle rearers, the government has increased the MSP of cow milk from Rs. 45 to Rs. 51 per liter and the MSP of buffalo milk from Rs. 55 to Rs. 61 per liter, he reiterated.
The Government adopted orphan children as 'Children of the state' and also made a law in this regard. The government will take care of orphans till they achieve 27 years of age, he said. The Chief Minister said that the Government has launched 'Sukh Shiksha Yojna' for free education and health facilities to as many as 23000 children of widows, divorced and disabled.
Earlier, he was given a rousing reception on reaching Barsar. Thousands had gathered to welcome the Chief Minster en-route Barsar.
SDM Barsar Rajender Gautam and his office staff handed over a cheque of Rs. 51 thousand to the Chief Minister towards CM Relief Fund. Besides, the office bearers of HP Dharamsthal Karamchari Sangh Deot-Sidh donated Rs. 1.04 lakh, Staff and students of GSSS Bhota donated Rs. 61 thousand, Berozgaar Sangh donated 51 thousand, Himachal Kalyan Sanstha contributed one lakh and Students of Degree College Una donated cheque of Rs. 2.21 lakh towards CM Relief Fund.
He said that MLA Bhoranj, Suresh Kumar, senior congress leader Subhash Dhatwalia, former MLA, Manjeet Dogra also spoke on the occasion.