Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today laid the foundation stone of Mini Secretariat building at Sangrah in Sirmaur district to be constructed at a cost of Rs 7.07 crore.The building will consist of four floors housing 13 offices including that of SDM, Tehsil office, Sub-Treasury, Sub Divisional Police Officer, Tehsil Welfare office, Child Development Project Officer, Food and Civil Supplies, Election Kanungo, Agriculture Development Officer, APRO office and Horticulture Development Office. The facility of a conference hall and a video conferencing hall will also be provided in the Mini Secretariat.The Chief Minister also laid foundation stones of building of government college at Sangrah to be constructed at a cost of rupees 16 crore and water supply scheme for Sangrah to be completed with an outlay of Rs. two crore. The scheme will benefit more than 4200 people of the area including 12 habitations of three panchayats viz: Sangrah, Redli and Andheri.
Addressing a public meeting on the occasion, Shri Virbhadra Singh said that the State government was committed for providing quality education to the youth of the State. He said that today there were 94 government colleges including five Sanskrit colleges in the State.He said he held a meeting last day at Shimla with higher officers of the education department in which directions had been given for completion of 21 colleges in a stipulated time period announced in the present government's regime. He said a provision of rupees five crore had been made for each college and if required, additional funds would be provided by the government for completion of these college buildings.He expressed happiness over the increasing strength of the girl students in the colleges opened in rural and far-flung areas of the State.
Earlier, while interacting with the media at Dadahu, he said that irregularities in land allotment of poor farmers to the project authorities constructing Renuka Dam was in his knowledge and the rights of the people would be protected at all cost. The Chief Minister said few influential people lured the poor and prepared more than 100 affidavits in a single day and purchased their land at throw away prices which were further sold to project authorities at a rate three times higher than the purchase rate. He said that soon the government will come out with a solution.Chief Parliamentary Secretary Shri Vinay Kumar, MLA Shri Kirnesh Jung, Chairman, Employment Generation and Resource Mobilisation Shri Harshvardhan Chauhan, Chairman, HIMFED Shri Ajay Bahadur, District Congress President Shri Ajay Solanki, Deputy Commissioner Shri B.C. Badalia, SP Shri Soum Sambasivan, Chief Engineer PWD Shri Ashok Chauhan, Chief Engineer IPH Shri K.C. Dhiman, Chief Architect, PWD Shri N.K. Negi, Conservator Forests Shri Y.P Gupta were also present on the occasion amongst other senior officers.