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Submitted By : Urmi Wadhawan
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Submitted On : Saturday, October 16, 2010
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Actor Director Satish Kaushik meets the CM of Haryana. Adopts his native village, pledging to transform it into a model village.
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Actor director Satish Kaushik has adopted his ancestral village, Dhanaunda, in the Mahendragarh District in Haryana, 140 kms from Delhi. Although born and brought up in Delhi, Karol Baug, Mr. Kaushik is very attached to his ancestral village that brings back memories of his childhood & also of his grandparents. Pledging to take up the development and wellbeing of the 7500 - 10000 odd population, Mr. Kaushik aims to transform it into a model village with all basic amenities like electricity, water supply, concrete roads and hygienic sewage systems. In a bid to materialize this further, Mr. Satish Kaushik met with the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr. Bhupinder Singh Hooda in Chandigarh on the 3rd October 2010 and presented him his plan. Following this, the chief minister has not only approved & supported his initiative but has also granted Rs. 50, 00,000 from the rural development corporation for the Dhanaunda village. The news was announced in a small ceremony in his village on the 5th October in the presence of the Deputy Commissioner, Mr. Vikas Gupta and various administrative heads to kick start the development process. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Kaushik Says, “I am very grateful that I am able to do this for my village. My grandparents,uncles,cousins and other relatives have lived here all their life and I have spent some beautiful days of my childhood here. I felt helpless when I returned here after so many years to see the state my ancestral village. It is then that I decided to transform it into a model village and set an example for other smaller villages around. Am very thankful I can finally see it materializing”
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