Thursday, 11 November 2021 | PNS | Haldwani/Dehradun
The chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has said the state government has undertaken a ‘mission blacktop’ under which the roads of the state would be made free from the potholes. He was addressing a gathering at Mini Stadium at Haldwani after inaugurating a mega employment fair on Wednesday. He announced that an IT Academy would be set up at the Uttarakhand Open University Haldwani.
Dhami said that the profit share of the ration shop owners would be increased from Rs 18 to Rs 50 per quintal and the Dearness Allowance (DA) of the employees of Corporations would be increased from 17 to 28 per cent after approval from their boards. He said that the Baluti village road would be named after former chief minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari.
Expressing grief for those who lost their lives during the recent rain triggered disaster, the CM said that though nature has bestowed Uttarakhand with natural beauty, the natural disasters occur at regular intervals here. The CM said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asserted that this decade belongs to Uttarakhand and the state government is committed to fulfil the vision the PM has for the state in 2025. He said that the pace of the development has picked up in the state under the leadership of PM Modi and that soon it would emerge as a model state.
The union minister of state Ajay Bhatt said that the young CM is working for the betterment of the youth. He said that the union government has released a sum of Rs 60 crore for the state for metaling roads. MLAs Navin Dumka, Diwan Singh Bisht, Ram Singh Kaida and others were present on the occasion.
