Polytechnic & Livelihood College building ready

| | Sukma | in Raipur

The State Government has completed construction of a Polytechnic and Livelihood College in the Sukma District Headquarters, officials informed.

The buildings had been constructed at a total cost of Rs 15 crores.

The Polytechnic building was constructed at a cost of Rs 11 crore and the Livelihood College building at a cost of Rs  4 crores.

There are 11 districts of Chhattisgarh included in list of 115 Aspirational Districts identified by NITI Aayog in the country, officials informed.

They are- Korba , Bastar, Mahasamund Bijapur, Dantewada,Chhattisgarh, Kanker, Kondagaon, Narayanpur, Rajnandgaon and Sukma .

NITI Aayog has given ‘in principle’ approval to various proposals related to roads, telecommunication, education, Ujjwala yojana and expansion of bank branches for overall development of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region.

In a bid to strengthen education system, in-principle approval was given for declaration of 10 LWE affected blocks as educationally backward blocks.