The three medical colleges being opened in Himachal at Nahan, Chamba and Hamirpur would be named as Dr YS Parmar Medical College, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Dr S Radhakrishnan Medical College, respectively, for which a provision of Rs190 crore each has been made by the State Government, said Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Sunday.
The Chief Minister while addressing a public meeting at Rohru said that AIIMS was being opened at Bilaspur and the government was also taking over Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) hospital at Ner chowk in Mandi district.
Virbhadra Singh said that besides strengthening health sector, the Government was according priority to provide higher and quality education to the children of the State and in this direction many educational institutions were either upgraded or opened.
He said hat maximum colleges were opened in rural areas of the state to cater to educational needs of the youth of such areas and it has been seen that the girl child had outnumbered boys in these colleges.
The work on Vegetable Market at Mehandali would soon begin which had been delayed a lot, adding that the Rohru-Mehandali by-pass had been constructed for the very purpose, said he.
Chief Minister said that we all should take a pledge to develop and strengthen the state so as to make it a model state in hill development.
He also announced a veterinary hospital at Kutara and announced construction of additional accommodation for GSSS Battu near Seema College.
Earlier, while addressing public meeting at Machoti, the Chief Minister announced upgradation of Government High School ‘Saraas’ in Gram Panchayat Khangtedi to Senior Secondary school and construction of building of government senior secondary school Kui in GP Kui on priority.
He said that the road linking Dodra-Kwar would be widened and metalled besides other link roads in the area would be maintained and repaired on priority. He exhorted people to voluntarily give land for roads and other development works as many roads under PMGSY were pending due to want of land. He added the government would pay adequate compensation if desired by landowners.