According to a press release, this move is aimed at providing much-needed support to state administrations in financing various social welfare programs and infrastructure development schemes.
The Chief Minister also inaugurated four projects worth Rs. 11.32 crore viz. Mandwara to Karol via Chanauriya Basti, Baba Balotu Mandir and Sukar and Dadri link road including causeway over Nalsuha Khad and two bridges on Bani to Pragpur via Dangra Sidh road on Lagbaliana and Sehri Khad.
The Delhi Government's Development Minister, Gopal Rai, has called a meeting of the Rural Development Board to discuss development schemes today, according to sources.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of 160 different development schemes worth Rs 415 crore. They include the inauguration of 44 schemes worth Rs 201 crore and the laying of the foundation stone of 116 schemes worth Rs 214 cror
The central government has authorised the release of an additional instalment of tax devolution amounting to Rs 72,961 crore to state governments for financing various social welfare measures and infrastructure development schemes.
Local MLA Hemanga Thakuria told ANI that, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra across the country to spread awareness among the people of the development schemes implemented by the government.
Talking to the reporters, the BJP MP said, "Nitish Kumar does not want another AIIMS to be made in Darbhanga, because if it is made its credit will be given to PM Modi...He wants to keep Bihar deprived of development schemes..."
The Assam government led by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has planned a massive rural outreach drive in which over 25,000 villages across the state will be visited to understand social infrastructure gaps and development schemes implementation levels.
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami inaugurated four schemes worth Rs 2435.11 lakh on Sunday while participating in a program organized at Municipal Corporation Rudrapur in Udham Singh Nagar district.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu presided over marathon meetings with officers and officials of various departments to review the various development schemes on the second day of his Kangra Sojourn at Dharamshala on Wednesday.
The current fiscal year is nearing its end with extraordinarily tight fiscal positions and the austerity policy of the PDM government in Pakistan, but discretionary spending on development schemes for constituencies of parliamentarians of the coalition partners and publicity continues to gro