Himachal Cabinet gives nod to MIS for fruit procurement in state

Shimla, July 25

The Cabinet today gave nod for procurement of apple, kinnow, malta, orange and mango fruits under Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) at Rs 12 per kg while the procurement rate for galgal would be Rs 10 per kg.

Other key decisions

• The Cabinet decided to create police district Dehra with its headquarters at Dehra, along with creation and filling up of 39 posts of different categories.
• It also decided to upgrade police posts of Dadasiba and Majheen as police stations under SDPO Dehra and SDPO Jwalamukhi, respectively.

The decision was taken by the Cabinet which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu here today. The apple procurement time will be from July 20 to October 31 and for mango from July 1 to August 31. Kinnow, malta, orange and galgal would be procured from November 21 to February 15.

The Cabinet decided to create Police district Dehra with its headquarters at Dehra along with creation and filling up of 39 posts of different categories. It also decided to upgrade police posts Dadasiba and Majheen as police stations under SDPO Dehra and SDPO Jwalamukhi, respectively.

Additionally, a new Police Post Jwalamukhi City and Police Post Moin have also been created with six post under Police Station, Jwalamukhi, and Dehra, respectively. It was also decided to transfer the jurisdiction of Police Station Rakkar from SDPO, Jwalamukhi, to SDPO, Dehra, in Kangra. The Cabinet also decided to create SDPO office at Dharampur in Mandi district along with creation and filling up of five posts of different categories.

The Cabinet gave its approval to create six posts of different categories for newly opened SDPO office Chuwari and 22 posts for newly opened Police Station Sihunta in Chamba district. Cabinet gave its consent to create and fill up six posts in the newly opened SDPO Office Indora in Kangra district. It decided to create six posts of various categories for newly opened Police Station Bhoranj in Hamirpur.

It decided to fill up 116 posts of Work Inspector in Jal Shakti Vibhag and 25 posts of Junior Technician (Work Inspector) in the Public Works department. It was also decided to create a PWD Circle at Dehra and PWD Division Department Division Jwalamukhi in Kangra district along with 26 posts.

The Cabinet gave approval to fill up 21 posts of Civil Judge through direct recruitment. It gave its nod for extension of MoU in favour of Alliance Air Aviation Limited for operation of Shimla-Dharamsala-Shimla flights (seven days a week) from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025.