Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Friday laid the foundation stone of new PWD (Building and Roads) rest house in Gurgaon, perhaps the biggest rest house of PWD in the State, to be constructed at a cost of `2616.85 lakh.
While congratulating the people for this new rest house, the Chief Minister said that this will be the biggest PWD rest house in the State.
He said that a rest house of such magnitude was not even available in the Capital of the State that is Chandigarh.
The new rest house will be a five-storey building, where basement will be for car parking. It will house one VVIP Suite, one CM Suite and 65 rooms. To be constructed in an area of 4.07 acre, the rest house will have services like living Room, Conference Room, Dining, Fine Dining etc.
The Chief Minister said that rooms in the rest house will be made available to the private persons as well.
While interacting with the mediapersons, he said that the Government has fixed MSP of Basmati Rice at `1450 per quintal. If rice is sold below this rate in open market, the State Government will make efforts to get the MSP enhanced and procure paddy and would not let cause loss to the farmers, he added.