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Sihunta to be upgraded to tehsil level, says Virbhadra

Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today announced upgrade of sub-tehsil Sihunta to a full-fledged tehsil.

Sihunta to be upgraded to tehsil level, says Virbhadra

Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh being greeted at Sihunta in Chamba district on Friday. A Tribune photo



Balkrishan Prashar

Sihunta (Dalhousie) October 9

Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today announced upgrade of sub-tehsil Sihunta to a full-fledged tehsil. He also announced the opening of a degree college at Sihunta to be functional from the next academic session.

The CM also announced upgradation of Government High School Dadriada to Government Senior Secondary School, Middle School Dagoh in Tunnuhatti gram panchayat to high school.

The Chief Minister made these announcements while addressing an impressive gathering at Sihunta in Bhattiyat Assembly constituency of Chamba district today.

Virbhadra also announced construction of a helipad and a mini stadium at Chowari. He said that 94 colleges were functioning in the state. Out of these, 95 per cent were opened during the Congress regimes. There were 18,000 schools in the state. Besides an IIT at Mandi, an IIM in Dhaulakuan in Sirmaur district, an AIIMS in Bilaspur district and three more medical colleges in Chamba, Hamirpur and Nahan were coming up.

Taking a jibe at the BJP, he said whenever the party came to power in the state it was due to the weaknesses of the Congress. Former Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal had played spoilsport in the state politics. “When Dhumal became Chief Minister of the state, he twice framed false cases against me and both the times I came out clean,” he said.

Referring to the invitation extended by the HPCA to him during the recent T-20 match, Virbhadra criticised the statements given by the association representatives that they had invited the Chief Minister and not Virbhadra Singh.

Earlier, the Chief Minister inaugurated a kalyan bhawan at Chowari which would house offices of tehsil welfare officer and child development project officer. He also inaugurated a primary health centre building at Sihunta and an additional block of government girls high school completed at a cost of Rs 90 lakh.

The Chief Minister laid the foundation stone of a water supply scheme to partially cover the areas of Dramnallah, Motla, Thakoli, Dhullara and Sihunta. He also performed ‘bhumi poojan’ of the Rupiana-Parsiara-Kathyari road.

Chairman Pollution Control Board Kuldeep Singh Pathania welcomed the Chief Minister to his home segment and also honoured him and other dignitaries present on the occasion. While addressing the gathering he said that Virbhadra was not only the tallest leader of the state but one of the most reputed and respected politician of the country.

Forest Minister TS Bharmouri, former MP Chander Kumar and Dalhousie MLA Asha Kumari were also present.

CM inaugurates power substation 

Chamba: Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh laid the foundation stone of a 33-KV power substation at Brangal in Bhalei sub-tehsil of Chamba district on Thursday. The substation will be constructed by the Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board Limited (HPSEBL) at a cost of Rs 3.44 crore. The substation will enhance quality uninterrupted power supply to consumers of Bhalei, Wangal, Bhunad, Manjhli, Salwan and Nadal areas, benefiting around 25,000 people of 33 villages falling in 16 panchayats. At present, Bhalei, Wangal, Bhunad, Manjhli, Salwan and Nadal areas are being supplied electricity from the 33-KV substation in Koti through two 11-KV feeders, Salwan and Bhalei, and one rural feeder from 33-KV substation in Dalhousie. — OC

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