Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Monday inaugurated a new government college at Kumhari in Durg district falling in his Assembly constituency, Patan.
It is a matter of happiness to open the college in Kumhari, he said addressing the event virtually.
With the new college, youths of adjoining areas need not to go to Durg-Bhilai, Raipur and other far-off places for higher studies, an official communication quoted him as saying.
The college has faculties in arts, science and commerce streams, with 90 seats each. Calling it an emotional moment, Baghel thanked everyone for naming the college in the name of the late Bindeshwari Devi Baghel, his mother. Higher Education Minister Umesh Patel said that under the Chief Minister, special emphasis has been laid on quality and infrastructure in higher education.