Chief Minister inaugurates Rs 11-cr projects in Rampur

Tribune News Service

Shimla, July 22

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur inaugurated developmental projects worth Rs 11 crore in the Rampur Assembly constituency of Shimla district through video-conferencing here on Tuesday.

Thakur inaugurated the commerce block of Degree College, Rampur, constructed at a cost of Rs 2.44 crore, the building of the Primary Health Centre at Phancha built at a cost of Rs 90.79 lakh, and a Rs 85.08-lakh gravity water supply scheme at Kungal Balti gram panchayat, which would benefit about 870 people of four habitations.

He also inaugurated the Rs 1.55-crore Khakrola Flow Irrigation Scheme at Shingala gram panchayat to irrigate about 60.15 hectares and a Rs 5.30-crore multi-storeyed car parking at the Indira Market Phase-I in Ward No. 3 of the Nagar Parishad, Rampur, which could accommodate 80 vehicles.

The CM said that these projects would usher in a new era of progress and prosperity in Rampur. He said that the government was ensuring that the pace of development did not suffer due to the pandemic.