Himachal Heath and Family Welfare Minister Kaul Singh Thakur on Tuesday met Union Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad and Commerce Minister Anand Sharma at New Delhi on Tuesday.
Thakur thanked Azad for sanctioning three more medical colleges, two cancer hospitals, two mother and child hospitals and for enhancing the grant under National Rural Health Mission. He said after present Congress Government took over in the State, Union Health Ministry sanction three more medical colleges in a short span of one year. Rs 190 crore each was sanctioned for setting up these medical colleges at Chamba, Hamirpur and Sirmour districts. The Union Health Ministry had also sanctioned Rs 45 crore each for establishing cancer hospitals at Shimla and Mandi, he added.
He said that Union Health Ministry had also agreed to set up 100-bed mother and child care hospitals each at Shimla in Kamla Nehru Hospital and at Mandi Zonal hospital and had provided Rs 20 Crore each for the same. In his meeting with Union Commerce Minister Anand Sharma, Thakur thanked him for revival of industrial package and for granting other due benefits to the State.
He said that extension of industrial package would not only give boost to the industrialisation in the State but also generate gainful employment especially for the rural youth. Special package of incentives had been extended from 7th January, 2013 to 31st March, 2017. He said that the industrial package would give a much needed fillip to the pace of industrialisation in the State.