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Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting Anurag Singh Thakur addressed five huge public meetings in Ghumarwin, Jhanduta and Sadar Vidhan Sabhas of Bilaspur district in Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday.
Thakur stressed on road connectivity for the hilly people and said, “ Connectivity is the biggest challenge. In the last years we worked to fill the pits of Congress’s corruption. We worked tirelessly to provide connectivity to the people of Himachal Pradesh and succeeded in it. This time we have taken resolution in our Sankalp Patra of transforming the transport and infrastructure facilities of Himachal Pradesh. We will do it together with your support and blessings.”
Talking about the ambitious ‘Shakti’ programme the Union minister said it will be implemented to develop infrastructure and transport around religious places in Himachal.
“Under ‘Shakti’, Rs 12,000 crore will be spent over a period of next 10 years. He said that, the BJP’s double engine government will ensure that every village in Himachal Pradesh is connected by a pucca road in the next 5 years,” he said.
Thakur who is also a Lok sabha MP from Hamirpur constituency in Himachal Pradesh said, “In terms of health infrastructure, mobile clinic vans will be doubled in every Vidhan Sabha so that people can get health facilities in far flung areas at ease.”
Speaking of achievements Shri Thakur said, “In the last eight years, 12,000 kms of road have been built. Hamirpur is going to be the second district of Himachal after Una, which will be connected by broad gauge railway line. Three Vande Bharat trains were running in the country, and PM Modi gifted the fourth one to Himachal. TodAy India’s most modern train has started operating in Himachal.”
Criticising the Congress of being anti-development Thakur said, “Congress has done the work of snatching the rights of Bilaspur. We kept getting big projects approved from the Center but Congress kept shopping them. We gave AIIMS projects worth Rs 1470 crore for Himachal, but Congress did not give us land for 4 years. In 2010, we brought Central University for the youth of Himachal, but the Congress kept producing administrative hurdles in it for 8 years. In 2012, we got Hydrocarbon Engineering College approved, Congress stopped it for 7 years. On the same lines, Congress did not give us land for four to four years for the medical college.In 2014, when we brought IIM, Congress stopped that too. “
Furthering the jibe on Congress party Thakur said, “We did the work of bringing and Congress did the work of stopping. We used to walk on the path of development and these people used to protest.
Speaking on health & education in his parliamentary constituency Hamirpur, he said, “There was no big university, no medical college, no big hospital and no railway facilities in Hamirpur previously. We did the work of building the country’s largest hospital and medical institute in AIIMS Bilaspur at a cost of Rs 1500 crore. We are the ones building a PGI hospital in Una at a cost of Rs 400 crore. A 300-bed hospital has been built in Hamirpur at a cost of about 350 crores. The Central University which was promised, earlier, when we got it approved, 280 crores was to be spent but now Rs 550 crores have already been received for it”.
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