Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh laid the foundation stones of 576 projects worth Rs 161 crore at a function on the occasion of the 95th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Lucknow on Tuesday.
The Union Home Minister’s announcements were greeted with applause and enthusiastic Bharatiya Janata Party workers raised slogans in praise of the late Prime Minister.
BJP Lucknow city unit chief Mukesh Sharma said that Rajnath Singh laid the foundation stones of international infrastructure to give shape to the dreams of Vajpayeeji, who dreamt of development of Lucknow.
He said that Lucknow was slowly but steadily moving towards acquiring the status and stature that the former Prime Minister had thought of.
Rajnath Singh inaugurated projects worth Rs 2 crore from CSR (corporate social responsibility) fund of GAIL, worth Rs 15 crore from MP Local Area Development Fund, 158 projects worth Rs 17 crore besides inaugurating Vishram Sadan having 210 beds at King George’s Medical University from CSR fund of Power Grid Corporation at the medical university.
On this occasion, KGMU Vice-Chancellor ML Bhatt urged the Union Home Minister to fund the construction of a three-storey building at Vishram Sadan and of a multi-level parking on KGMU premises. The Union Home Minister gave an assurance to the VC in this regard.
On this occasion, Rajnath Singh also inaugurated 17 projects worth Rs 2 crore undertaken by CSR fund of GAIL and 418 projects other projects. Singh attended a the tehri bhoj organised at Kudia Ghat in Lucknow.
The programme was attended by Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, ministers Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Brajesh Pathak, Mahendra Singh, Mohsin Raza, MLA Pankaj Singh, Suresh Srivastava, Neeraj Bora, Union Home Minister’s representative Diwakar Tripathi and several others.