Expedite work on Sawara Kuddu, Bajoli Holi projects: CM

Shimla, June 9

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur today directed administrative secretaries and other officers to ensure time-bound completion of various development works.

Presiding over the review meeting of budget assurances for the year 2020-21, he said that work on various power projects, particularly 111 MW Sawara Kuddu and 180 MW Bajoli Holi, should be expedited. The 40 MW Renuka hydro project, which was being constructed at a cost of Rs 6,947 crore after being declared as national project, would be completed by the end of the current financial year.

He said dairy farming could play a vital role in supplementing the economy of the farmers, and efforts should be made to ensure better services to farmers for better health of their cattle.

He said efforts should be made to promote rural handicrafts and handloom products. Thakur stressed on steps to be taken to conduct mass screening of school children for detecting genetic disorders in the initial stage. He also directed the officers to start 10 mobile health centres to help the people in remote areas.

He also directed the officers to ensure that various on-going road projects were completed in stipulated time. He said that since the working season of metalling and tarring of roads was limited, efforts should be made to complete the work at the earliest. Steps should also be taken to explore possibilities of alternative modes of transportation, he said and added the water transport route between Tattapani and Salapar should be completed at the earliest.

He also stressed the need to take up ropeways projects between Baglamukhi in Mandi district and another ropeway from Narkanda to Hatu temple. Thakur said that the state government had launched a skill register to create a database of migrants who have come to Himachal during the lockdown. As many as 9,000 youth had registered themselves. —TNS