Gujarat CM to attend state-level Independence day functions at Lunawada

Gandhinagar

Chief Minister Anandiben Patel will unfurl the national flag and deliver the 69th Independence Day (I-Day) speech at the Gujarat Government’s state-level Independence Day function to be held this year at the newly created Mahisagar district’s headquarters at Lunawada on Saturday, August 15, 2015.

Mrs. Patel is scheduled to reach the Mahisagar district the previous morning on August 14 and attend a series of functions the next two days. She will dedicate five development works worth Rs.44-crore and perform ground breaking ceremony of three works worth Rs.69-crore.

Governor O. P. Kohli will host the ceremonial Garden Party at Lunawada for the freedom fighters and prominent citizens, in presence of the Chief Ministers, in the previous evening on August 14.

Giving details of the state-level I-Day functions to be held in the Mahisagar district, State Government’s spokesperson, Health Minister Nitin Patel and Finance Minister Saurabh Patel said that a number of Ministers and Chairmen of Boards and Corporations have been participating in over 400 people’s welfare projects worth Rs.187-crore since August 1. This included commissioning 280 projects worth Rs.52-crore and performing ground-breaking ceremony of 121 projects worth Rs.21-crore during the fortnight.

On August 14, Mrs. Patel will attend a Vanbandhu Sammelan at Santrampur in the morning and distribute papers and assistance to forest dwellers, will address a Mahila Sammelan at Virpur at 11 a.m., will dedicate a Seva Sadan built at a cost of Rs.32-crore at Lunawada district town in the afternoon.

After the At Home, she will offer prayers on Lokmata Mahisagar at Madhwas in the evening and will attend the mega entertainment programme on the theme of ‘Manohar Mahisagar’ at Lunwada in the late evening.

The spokespersons-minister said it was in 2003 that the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi had set the tradition of celebrating important public functions away from the State Capital (Gandhinagar) at other towns. The first such I-Day away from Gandhinagar was held at Patan in 2003.

In a deviation from the previous years, the ministers said, Mrs. Patel as the first woman Chief Minister of Gujarat has invited progressive farmers and other achievers for their public felicitation at the I-Day function.

The preparation for the grand occasion is held under the leadership of Mahisagar district’s guardian minister Pradeepsinh Jadeja.

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