CM to launch Rs 264 cr project under scheme

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will dedicate construction works worth 264 crores and perform online bhumi-pujan on the occasion of completion of 20 years of Jan Kalyan and Suraj Yojana to improve school education in the State.

Chouhan will dedicate and perform bhumi-pujan of 45 newly constructed buildings of School Education Department and 71 newly constructed buildings of Tribal Affairs Department at Minto Hall, Bhopal on Tuesday at 6.30 PM. Tribal Affairs and Scheduled Castes Welfare Minister Meena Singh, Public Works and Cottage and Village Industries Minister Gopal Bhargava and Minister of State for School Education (Independent Charge) and General Administration Inder Singh Parmar will also be present on the occasion. The program will be broadcast live on CM Webcast,

In the program, along with the dedication of newly constructed high school buildings, higher secondary school buildings, hostels and multi-purpose buildings of the School Education Department constructed at a cost of about Rs. 51.40 crores, bhumi pujan of 71 school buildings of Tribal Affairs Department to be built at a cost of Rs 213.80 crores will be done. School students will be benefited by the construction of these buildings. The Tribal Affairs Department will construct schools and hostels in Alirajpur, Umaria, Khargone, Jhabua, Dhar, Barwani, Mandla, Ratlam, Shahdol, Seoni and Hoshangabad districts.