Himachal Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Sunday blamed the previous Congress Government for befooling the people of the area in name of college.
He was addressing a public meeting at Thachi in Seraj assembly segment of Mandi district. Though the previous government had declared a College for Thachi, but the budgetary allocation was not made at all. A mere Rs 1 lakh was announced for the college but when inquired from the Finance department, there was no such financial concurrence for the same. This was done to befool people of the area he said, adding that in the coming budget adequate funds would be allocated for completion of college building at Thachi.
The Chief Minister said that the Congress nearing elections laid foundation stone and announced many development projects without budgetary provisions. “My Government has decided to review all the announcements made by the previous government during last six months”, he added.
Though the Government would not work with a biased attitude but would certainly review the decisions of previous Government that whether the projects announced or posts created were having any budgetary provisions or not and act accordingly, Thakur said. He also announced a sum of Rs 41 crore for Drinking Water Supply Scheme to left-out habitations of Seraj constituency from Tirthan Khud benefitting panchayats of Devdhaar, Bali-Chowki, Kau, Mani, Murah and Panjain.
He added that detailed project report of water supply schemes for these panchayats were being prepared for funding under National Development Bank.