CM on inauguration spree at Sunni

Tribune News Service

Shimla, December 4

Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh was on an inauguration spree today at Sunni in his own home Assembly segment of Shimla rural, dedicating Rs 1.83-crore new science block building of government senior secondary school, Sunni, hospital quarters and opened cooperative bank and other projects to people.

The Chief Minister also inaugurated a newly constructed building of police station, completed with an outlay of Rs 71.63 lakh, and type-IV quarters of the Civil Hospital. He opened the renovated premises of the Himachal Pradesh State Co-operative and new branch of the bank at Jalog online from Sunni branch, which is the 219th branch of the bank in the state.

The Chief Minister inaugurated a branch of Rural Development Bank and laid the foundation stone of a nagar panchayat building, to cost Rs 70 lakh, at Sunni.

Virbhadra distributed wheel chairs and stretchers at the Civil Hospital and track suits donated by State Bank of India to all children of Bal Ashram, Sunni. He dedicated two coolers and two water purifiers donated by SBI to Government Senior Secondary School, Sunni.

Addressing a gathering, he announced upgrade and refurbishment of the school stadium of GSSS, Sunni, and directed the co-operative bank to install a water cooler in Bal Ashram.

The Chief Minister listed development works done in Shimla rural assembly segment in the last four years.

He said the bank had hi-tech and ultra modern facilities, fulfilling a long-pending demand of the people of the area. The Chief Minister congratulated bank chairman Harsh Mahajan for opening maximum branches of the bank in rural areas and making record profit.

Mahajan said the bank had received permission from the RBI to open 22 new branches and two extension counters and all the branches, barring a few, would be opened in far-flung and rural areas of the state.