With the 15th Finance Commission recommending an annual grant of 11 thousand crores to Himachal Pradesh, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Saturday thanked the Finance Commission and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for increasing the grant for the State.
He said the State Government had taken up the matter with the Central Government in this context and had requested that the State’s grant should be increased.
Thakur said this grant would be used to give further impetus to the pace of development in the State, adding that the state government was committed for balanced and overall development of the state and the state is getting full cooperation of Central Government.
The Chief Minister said that in last two years, the union government has approved projects worth thousands crores of rupees for the State in various sectors for which the state government is grateful to the centre. The Central government has increased this grant while keeping the developmental needs of the state in view, for which the State government expresses its gratitude towards the Finance Commission and Central Government.