Dharmshala---Sudheer Sharma Urban Development Minister was given a rousing welcome on his arrival at Jwalamukhi. He was on way to Dharamsala. Hundreds of Congress workers and senior officers of the state government received him at Nadaun, 60 km from here. Later, Sharma also visited the famous Shrine of Jwalamukhi.Speaking to mediapersons at Jwalamukhi, he said his top priority would be the planned development of the fast-growing towns of the state like Dharamsala, Kangra, Palampur, Baijnath and Nurpur.He said in the past few years haphazard growth of many towns was witnessed. He said the Chief Minister had decided to initiate stringent measures to make the Urban Development Department more effective and check unplanned growth of towns.He categorically stated that if needed laws would also be amended for the same.He said villages, which were in the vicinity of bigger towns and being ignored, would be developed as towns with urban area facilities.In a reply to a question, the minister said the limits of the Kangra Municipal Committee would be extended, if required, keeping all the suggestions and necessary facilities in view. He charged the previous BJP government with discriminating most of the towns in the state and only a few towns were put on a trail of development. He assured all present that the Congress government would not discriminate against any region of the state.He said the Congress government led by Virbhadra Singh in the previous tenures had given a boost to the development of this region too and, thus, people of Kangra had defeated BJP candidates on 12 of the 15 seats.He said some disgruntled elements within the Congress party had paved the way for the defeat of party candidate Surinder Kaku from Kangra. Such people were neither friends of the Congress nor had any place near Virbhadra Singh, he added.Local MLA Sanjay Rattan ,Deputy Commissioner, Kangra, KR Bharati and Additional Deputy Commissioner Ashish Singhmar were among those present.
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