BJP social media cell is targeting me because I curbed corruption: Sukhu

“The previous BJP government handed over 5,000 bighas of valuable land to industrial houses for just Rs 1.12 crore under customised packages, waiving stamp duty and offering electricity at Rs 3 per unit for five years, along with free water. As long as I am the chief minister, I will not allow the State’s assets to be plundered,” the CM said, addressing a public gathering.

“The previous BJP government left behind a debt of Rs 75,000 crore and liabilities of Rs 10,000 crore for employees. For electoral gains, it opened various institutes in the last six months of its tenure without proper budgetary provisions and staff,” the chief minister alleged.

“The state government was safeguarding the interests of Himachal, and that’s why we returned Rs 30 crore received from the Centre for the bulk drug park and decided to develop it on our own,” he said.

He also said that the government is going to make large-scale recruitment in various departments.

Sukhu inaugurated the Rs 86-crore Baddi-Sai-Ramshehar road, tube wells worth Rs 15.78 crore in the Doon area, the Rs 10.64-crore Civil Hospital in Baddi and a Rs 3.15-crore Community Health Centre building in Barotiwala. The CM dedicated the newly opened government primary schools at Haripur Sandholi, Suraj Majra, Lubana and Chakkan to the public.

Sukhu announced to upgrade the Baddi Civil Hospital to a 100-bed facility, Rs 25 crore for constructing an SDM office and Rs 10 crore for a sports stadium. He said Baddi’s facilities must keep pace with its growing population and announced that Baddi, Barotiwala and Chandi schools would follow the CBSE curriculum from the next academic session.

The chief minister said the government was strengthening health services, initiating large-scale recruitment and providing relief to disaster-affected families. He distributed Rs 17.62 lakh among 18 disaster-hit families and Rs 17.03 lakh among 15 PMAY-G beneficiaries.

Local MLA Chaudhary Ram Kumar said projects worth nearly Rs 400 crore dedicated by the chief minister would boost development in Doon.

Sukhu also laid the foundation stones of a Rs 73.21-crore Quality and Reliable Power Supply Scheme in Baddi, a Rs 63.73-crore Baddi-Shitalpur-Jagatkhana road, a Rs 40-crore ISBT Baddi, a Rs 37.67-crore Mini Secretariat, a Rs 37.10-crore sewerage scheme for left-out areas in Baddi, and a Rs 5-crore Rajiv Gandhi Day Boarding School in Kalyanpur.

The CM also announced a new PWD Division in the Doon constituency.