Shimla, July 11 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh has made remarkable progress in education, healthcare and other socio-economic indicators despite its challenging terrain, Dr VK Paul, former member of NITI Aayog, has said.However, unless infrastructure is systematically climate-proofed against the growing risks posed by climate-induced disasters, these hard-earned developmental gains could be significantly undermined, setting the state’s development trajectory back, he said during a workshop on ‘Toward…
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Shimla, June 27 (IANS) Former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Saturday accused the Congress-led state government of undermining democracy by misusing the administrative machinery to manipulate the outcome of Panchayati Raj and urban local body elections. He alleged that “after failing to prevent the elections, the state government is now deliberately delaying the election of Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons in an attempt to facilitate horse-trading and overturn the people’s m…
Shimla, June 1 (IANS) A 1993-batch IAS officer, Kamlesh Kumar Pant, on Monday assumed the additional charge of Himachal Pradesh Chief Secretary, replacing Sanjay Gupta of the 1988 batch, who retired a day earlier. Pant, the senior-most IAS officer, was serving as Additional Chief Secretary of Forests. The Department of Personnel has sent a panel of five senior IAS officers to the Chief Minister, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, for appointment as the next Chief Secretary.Besides Pant, the panel comprised…
Chandigarh, May 12 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh saw 86 cloudbursts, 234 landslides and 121 flash floods from 2023 to 2025, resulting in a cumulative loss of Rs 12,500 crore. This fact came to light after a high-level meeting here, chaired by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, to review the Resilient Action for Development and Disaster Recovery- Himachal Pradesh (READY-HP). An official statement issued on Tuesday, quoting the Chief Minister, said the total outlay of the Resilient Action for Develo…
Shimla, April 18 (IANS) Days after the salary cuts of the lawmakers, comprising Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, now 30 per cent pay cut has been made temporarily for senior government officials, including the Chief Secretary Sanjay Gupta and the Director General of Police (DGP) Ashok Tiwari, on Sunday. The Congress government has taken a major decision to address financial crisis in the hill state.The state government has issued an order temporarily suspending a portion o…
Shimla, Feb 26 (IANS) A Himachal Pradesh BJP delegation, led by the Leader of Opposition (LoP) Jairam Thakur, on Thursday, met Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla here and apprised him through a memorandum about the arrest of three accused by the Delhi Police relating to the AI Impact Summit case and subsequent “confrontation” with the state police. Saying placing police forces of two states in confrontation “a direct blow to the spirit of cooperative federalism”, former Chief Minister Thakur said the A…
Shimla, Feb 20 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh government on Friday said it has expanded the ambit of the Indira Gandhi Sukh Shiksha Yojna by extending financial assistance to daughters of widows pursuing higher education both within and outside the state. The scheme, which is designed to provide comprehensive support in the areas of education, health and nutrition to children of widows, destitute or divorced women and disabled parents, has now been amended to benefit eligible daughters up to 27 yea…
Shimla, Jan 19 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh Cabinet, at its meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, on Monday decided to establish a state-of-the-art Cancer Care Centre at Dr Radhakrishnan Government Medical College in Hamirpur town. The Cabinet also approved the creation of 11 new departments and the creation and filling of requisite posts of various categories. It decided to amend the Social Security (Pension and Allowance) Rule of 2010 to ensure time-bound disbursal of social…