Thursday, 12 August 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
Requests setting up of AIIMS in Kumaon region, central assistance for Sainik School in Rudraprayag.
On second day of his Delhi visit Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami met Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Wednesday. Dhami also visited Maharashtra Bhawan in New Delhi on the day where he met Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.
In his meeting with Home Minister Amit Shah, the CM requested setting up of an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Kumaon region of the state. He told Shah that the people of remote areas of Kumaon region are bereft of super speciality health facility and if centre approves AIIMS in the region the state government would provide land for it. He also requested that the Indian Science Education and Research institute should be established in Dehradun.
In his meeting with the Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, the CM said that a broad gauge rail link between Tanakpur and Bageshwar should be approved in view of its strategic importance. He said that railway ministry has ordered survey for a narrow gauge rail link between Tanakpur and Bageshwar. He said that the construction of the narrow gauge is impractical as it would neither serve solve transportation neither purpose nor it would be of strategic importance.
Dhami said that since the area is close to China and Nepal borders, a broad gauge rail line should be constructed. The CM also told Singh that the union government had given its approval for setting up of a Sainik School in Jakholi in Rudraprayag and the state government was to set up infrastructure facilities in the schools but in view of the limited resources of the state, the centre should provide financial assistance to the state for setting up infrastructure in the school. He said that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) should be amended for the same.
