Himachal Pradesh cabinet decides to fill 700 posts of Home Guard and regularise 203 panchayat secretaries
Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh cabinet has decided to fill 700 posts of Home Guards volunteer and agreed to regularise 203 zila parishad cadre panchayat secretaries who have completed two years on contract by March 31, 2025.
Chaired by chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, Saturday's cabinet meeting also removed a key hurdle for aspiring resident doctors by scrapping the one-year mandatory field posting requirement before applying for senior residency. The change brings uniformity to eligibility criteria at Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, and Dr Rajendra Prasad Govt Medical College, Tanda, aligning them with the Atal Institute of Medical Superspecialities (AIMSS), Chamiyana.
In a bid to cut plastic waste, ministers approved a pilot 'Deposit Refund Scheme 2025'. Under the initiative, consumers will pay a refundable deposit when buying products with certain packaging, such as glass bottles, plastic containers, cans and multilayered materials. The deposit will be returned once the empty packaging is returned. Other decisions included relocating the Himachal Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) office from Shimla to Dharamshala and launching a fresh reservation roster for panchayati raj institution (PRI) members and chairpersons, a move last seen in 2010.
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The cabinet also allowed the Himachal Pradesh Forest Development Corporation to collect minor minerals and carry out dredging in forest rivers and ponds to improve resource use and environmental outcomes. In education, a new elementary block will be created at Baddi in Solan district by bifurcating the Ramshahar block. Administrative restructuring of Sulah, Bhawarna, and Lambagaon development blocks in Kangra, along with Bharanj in Hamirpur district, was also approved to ease governance delivery.
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Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh cabinet has decided to fill 700 posts of Home Guards volunteer and agreed to regularise 203 zila parishad cadre panchayat secretaries who have completed two years on contract by March 31, 2025.
Chaired by chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, Saturday's cabinet meeting also removed a key hurdle for aspiring resident doctors by scrapping the one-year mandatory field posting requirement before applying for senior residency.
The change brings uniformity to eligibility criteria at Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, and Dr Rajendra Prasad Govt Medical College, Tanda, aligning them with the Atal Institute of Medical Superspecialities (AIMSS), Chamiyana.
In a bid to cut plastic waste, ministers approved a pilot 'Deposit Refund Scheme 2025'. Under the initiative, consumers will pay a refundable deposit when buying products with certain packaging, such as glass bottles, plastic containers, cans and multilayered materials.
The deposit will be returned once the empty packaging is returned. Other decisions included relocating the Himachal Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) office from Shimla to Dharamshala and launching a fresh reservation roster for panchayati raj institution (PRI) members and chairpersons, a move last seen in 2010.
The cabinet also allowed the Himachal Pradesh Forest Development Corporation to collect minor minerals and carry out dredging in forest rivers and ponds to improve resource use and environmental outcomes. In education, a new elementary block will be created at Baddi in Solan district by bifurcating the Ramshahar block. Administrative restructuring of Sulah, Bhawarna, and Lambagaon development blocks in Kangra, along with Bharanj in Hamirpur district, was also approved to ease governance delivery.
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