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The Himachal Pradesh cabinet, at its meeting held in Shimla on Tuesday (June 18) under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, approved the opening of Superintendent of Police and Superintending of Engineer of Public Works Department offices at Dehra in Kangra district.
But due to the model code of conduct applicable in bypoll-bound Dehra, Nalagarh and Hamirpur, these two offices would be notified after the byelection results. It also accorded sanction to open an Electrical Division at Haroli in Una district. The Congress has fielded Chief Minister Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur from Dehra, a constituency where she has her maternal home.
The cabinet also formed a cabinet sub-committee under the chairmanship of Industries Minister Harshwardhan Chauhan with Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Anirudh Singh, Public Works Minister Vikramaditya Singh and Technical Education Minister Rajesh Dharmani as members to suggest guidelines for streamlining the operations of home-stays and boost tourism in the state.
It also approved to form a cabinet sub-committee to recommend on resource mobilisation under the chairmanship of Deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri with Agriculture Minister Chander Kumar, Industries Minister Harshwardhan Chauhan and Technical Education Minister Rajesh Dharmani as its members. The cabinet also reviewed the situation of forest fires, drought, water scarcity and monsoon advancement in the State.
Meanwhile, the cabinet also decided to create and fill more than 6,630 posts in various government departments, including engaging 6,297 Early Childhood Care and Education Tutors, in the education department to provide better education to small children.
It decided to create and fill 200 posts of Medical Officers in the Health and Family Welfare department. In addition, the cabinet also gave its nod to fill 22 posts of Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor in various medical colleges in the state, which includes three posts of Professor and two posts of Associate Professors in Dr Yashwant Singh Parmar Government Medical College, Nahan; two posts of Professor and one post of Associate Professor in Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Government Medical College, Ner Chowk, Mandi, four posts of Professor and five posts each of Associate and Assistant Professors in Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru Government Medical College, Chamba, to provide specialised health services to the people nearer to their homes.
