President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated a host of development oriented projects for Jharkhand from Deoghar on the second day of his stay on Sunday. Apart from laying down foundation stone of Motor Driving Training Centre in Ranchi at the premises of Gandhi Nagar Hospital and Godda simultaneously under the National skill Development Scheme of Government of India, the President also inaugurated as many as 35 Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendra (PMKK) from Deoghar after he offered prayers at historic Babadham Temple there in the city.
Apart from skill development training centres, a solar power project inaugurated by the President remained one of the most ambitious projects of the district administration. Under this a road stretch of around 50 km connecting Babadham and Basukinath would now be lit with some 1650 solar streetlights. This would help the pilgrims as they had been suffering from a number of problems including that of security concerns while traveling on that stretch after dark.
He also went on inaugurating Employees State Insurance (ESI) Hospital and Software Technology Parks of India Centre from Deoghar College along with these at Deoghar.
The President said in his address on the occasion that it was painful to see that even after so many years, a major chunk of Indian population remained under Below Poverty line (BPl).
"These types of skill development programmes will definitely help to uplift such classes," he said. Earlier at Ranchi, the President while laying foundation stone for Rabindra Bhawan termed Gurudev Rabindranath as "true ambassador of Bengali and entire Indian culture to the world."
Governor Droupadi Murmu, Union Minister of State for Skill Development Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma, labour Minister Raj Paliwar, Union Minister of State for labour Bandaru Dattatreya, Union Minister PP Chowdhary, DGP DK Pandey, Godda MP Nishikant Dubey, BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain and other dignitaries were present at the occasion of inaugurations in Deoghar College.
At the same time, Union Minister of State for Agriculture Sudharshan Bhagat, Ranchi MP Ram Tahal Choudhary, Rajya Sabha MP Mahesh Poddar, CCl Chairman-cum-Managing Director Gopal Singh and other dignitaries were present to witness the online inauguration of Motor Driving Training Centre at Ranchi and Godda.
Gopal Singh said in his inaugural address that Kayakalp Model of Governance run by CCl was undertaking many welfare/ CSR activities in the State. "This motor driving training centre will be the best in the country and youths from Jharkhand could be benefited from this unique scheme of Government of India," Singh added.
Sudarshan Bhagat said on the occasion two motor driving centres were being opened in Jharkhand and youths will be befitted from it. "India is having maximum number of youth population in the world and youths of Jharkhand too will beget self employment/ employment after the completing of the training," Bhagat added. Mahesh Poddar too talked about the benefits of upcoming motor driving training centre and significant achievements of CCl in recently concluded FY 2016-17. The President left Deoghar in afternoon for Bhagalpur.