हिंदी
HIMACHAL, OCTOBER 22
CM Jai Ram Thakur has congratulated the Public Works Department and showed satisfaction on Mandi district getting top position in the country among all 30 districts of the country and Himachal Pradesh securing second position at National level for successful implementation of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY). PMGSY is a program funded by Centre government to connect habitations having population of more than 250 in the state.
Jai Ram Thakur feels proud and satisfied on this achievement and for successfully carrying out the task in bad weather and Covid 19 pandemic conditions. He appreciated the works of Public Works Department and Principal Secretary PWD J.C. Sharma for regular monitoring of the works.
Union Ministry of Rural Development has displayed the list of top performing 30 districts in the country for implementing the PMGSY programme in India. Mandi district has received top position among all 30 districts for constructing roads under PMGSY of maximum length in 2020 -21. Six more districts of Himachal Pradesh have also secured position among top 30 best performing districts, which include Chamba, Shimla, Kangra, Una, Sirmour, Hamirpur and Solan. Himachal Pradesh has also improved its performance under PMGSY programme by constructing 1104 Kilometres roads this year from April till date.
Due to Covid the availability of labour and machines was disturbed but due to the effort of the State Government to bring back required resources helped to construct maximum length till this month under the PMGSY programme. He suggested the public works engineers to maintain the same enthusiasm in coming time so that another milestone in this field can be achieved by the State.
