Government ignored unemployment, economic distress: Congress

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Chamba, November 16

In view of the upcoming municipal and panchayat elections in the state, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has visited Chamba district recently and tried to woo people while taking credit for most of the development works initiated by the previous Congress government.

In a press note issued here today, District Congress Committee (DCC) president Neeraj Nayar said that the Chief Minister had only performed inaugurations and laid foundation stones of the works of roads and buildings but did not announce any measures to address the burning issues of inflation, unemployment and economic distress among the public.

He said that the posts of specialist doctors in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Government Medical College and Hospital here were lying vacant. Local people were still going to Kangra and Shimla for treatment of many serious diseases but still the government did not fill the posts of specialists in the medical college for the past three years. In the absence of the clinical test facility, people of Chamba had to go to Pathankot and Kangra to get the endoscopy test done at an exorbitant price, Nayar said.

He added that doctors posted at the time of the inception of the medical college during the Congress rule were transferred after the BJP formed the government, and as a result there has been a big shortage of doctors.