Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of four outpatient departments of the Composite Regional Centres for Persons with Disabilities in Sundernagar town. At the function where Union Ministers Thawar Chand Gehlot and J.P. Nadda were also present, he said the outpatient departments would be constructed with an outlay of Rs 30 crore.

The centre would house a hostel for 100 boys and girls with disabilities. This institution in Mandi district was opened in 2001 when there was the BJP government at the Centre led by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. In his remarks on the occasion, Health Minister Nadda said the composite centre would prove a milestone for the empowerment of the physically challenged.