Former Speaker of Uttarakhand Assembly and Congress MlA from Jageshwar, Govind Singh Kunjwal accused the State Government of ignoring Gairsain and doing nothing to build infrastructure facilities in the mountain town.
He claimed that the previous Congress Government in the State had strived hard to make Gairsain the permanent State capital. Talking to the media persons here on Friday, the veteran leader said that in the Winter Session of Assembly the employees and police personnel faced maximum inconvenience due to the shoddy arrangements.
He claimed construction work of the Assembly building has not progressed even an inch ever since the BJP Government assumed office in the State.
Terming the provision of Rs 10 crore made in the supplementary Budget 2017-18 as meagre to meet the actual requirement, the former Assembly Speaker said that the Congress Government had earmarked an amount of Rs 115 crore for the Assembly building. He said that the Congress Government under then Chief Minister Harish Rawat had also set up Gairsain development authority to develop a modern township at Gairsain.