HP Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu made several announcements and inaugurated several development projects during his one day tour of Balh Assembly constituency of Mandi district on Saturday.
Addressing a public meeting at Kansa chowk, CM Sukhu announced to release DA installment for the state government employees before Diwali.
Criticizing the previous BJP government the CM accused, “The previous BJP government had pushed the state into a debt trap by allegedly misusing the state’s resources; but the present regime is generating its own resources and will pay the DA installment to the employees before Diwali.”
He said , “ The present government keeping in mind the problems of the common man has taken several steps like restoring OPS to employees and providing benefits to the masses, checking corruption and implementing welfare schemes for orphaned children and widows.”
The Chief Minister said, “The Congress government had firmly faced both natural disasters and political challenges. During the disaster, the state government rebuilt around 23,000 damaged houses using its own resources and committed to make the state financially self-reliant.”
Referring to the Kishau Multipurpose Project, the CM said, “The state government had strongly protected Himachal Pradesh’s interests and saved nearly Rs 3000 crore, besides generating an annual revenue of about Rs 1200 crore.”
The CM inaugurated an MRI machine, established at the cost of Rs 23 crore at SLBMC Ner Chowk, a Tertiary Care Cancer Centre equipped with LINAC and CT simulator machines and also interacted with the faculty members of the college.
Several Congress leaders and prominent dignitaries were present on the occasion.
