Dehradun, July 30 -- The Central government has approved an amount of Rs 615 crore to Uttarakhand as a special capital assistance, of which Rs 380.201 crore has already been released to the state, the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) said on Wednesday.

In reaction to this, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami expressed happiness over the approval of special central assistance and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for this. The Chief Minister said that the state government is engaged with full readiness and commitment to fulfil the Prime Minister's vision of making this decade a decade of development of Uttarakhand.

"Uttarakhand is getting full support from the Central Government in this direction," the CM said as per the CMO.

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