President Pranab Mukherjee laid the foundation stone of a Driver’s Training Institute and a Secondary School under the Smart Village Initiative in Gurugram on Friday at Dauala village.
Also, the President inaugurated three new Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras (PMKKs) at Mahendragarh, Ambala and Palwal by pressing the e-button.
Daula is one of the five villages that were adopted by the President for development. With the help of the Haryana Government, the Rashtrapati Bhavan selected five villages and many initiatives were taken for their development. The SMARTGRAM Initiative was started on July 2, 2016.
The President has adopted 100 more villages (80 in Gurugram and 20 in Nuh) to be developed as model villages. Chief Minister Haryana Manohar lal Khattar who was also present during the ceremony, announced to develop 1,000 villages of the State as Smart Gram under ‘Swa Prerit Smart Gram Scheme’ within one year.
Earlier, the President landed in Gurugram around 12.10 pm by a chopper at Sohna stadium and headed to Daula village.
The President said, “The development of the country depends when our villages are developed. Around 68 per cent of the population lives in villages and around 10 lakh youth of the villages move to cites for better opportunities. So if we want to give them avenues. We have to improve opportunities in six thousand villages in the entire State”.
The Chief Minister said Tauru Tehsil of District Nuh will be upgraded to a Sub-Division and SDM would hoist National Flag there on coming Independence day.
“A new scheme named Deen Bandhu Haryana Gram Uday Yojana has been launched for developing villages having the population from 3,000 to 10,000 and an amount of Rs 1,200 crore would be spent in these villages’, the CM announced.
The Pioneer spoke to the students of Daula Smart Village who were disappointed with the Class X Board examination results. Out of 100 students who appeared for the board examinations, only 32 passed while 68 students had failed.
“We have a Senior Secondary school at our village. We had asked the district administration for a college here as we have to travel to Gurugram for further studies” Neha Raghav, a student said.
“The President had adopted Daula almost one year back and several skills developed training centre have been started in the village. Our humble request to the district administration is that they should keep an eye on educations system also,” said another student Rahul Tomer.
Union Minister of State for Planning and Urban Development, Rao Inderjit Singh, Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Union Minister of State for Petroleum & Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, Secretary to the President, Omita Paul, Haryana Chief Secretary DS Dhesi also addressed the gathering.