{"id":139403,"date":"2025-05-31T17:14:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T11:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.himshimlalive.com\/?p=139403"},"modified":"2025-05-31T17:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T11:44:34","slug":"himachal-cabinet-decisions-today-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.himshimlalive.com\/?p=139403","title":{"rendered":"Himachal Cabinet Decisions Today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">SHIMLA: The State Cabinet in its meeting held here today under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu decided to fill up 700 posts of Home Guard Volunteers in the Home Guards and Civil Defence Department. <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It gave its nod to regularise the services of 203 Panchayat Secretary (Zila Parishad cadre) who have completed two years of contract services as on 31st March, 2025.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Cabinet approved an amendment to the Postgraduate\/Specialist Services (PG\/SS) Policy by withdrawing the mandatory requirement of one-year field posting prior to eligibility for Senior Residency at Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC), Shimla and Dr. Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College, Tanda. This decision has been taken in line with the policy followed at AIIMS, Chamiyana. The amendment is aimed at streamlining the selection process, ensuring fairness, and bringing coherence between the implementation of the Resident Doctor Policy and the PG\/SS Policy.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The cabinet approved the shifting of the Himachal Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) office from Shimla to Dharamsala.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It also decided to introduce the Deposit Refund Scheme 2025 to effectively manage and reduce non-biodegradable waste. Under this scheme, consumers will pay a refundable deposit over and above the product price, which will be returned upon the return of the empty product. The scheme will be applicable to a wide range of packaging materials including glass bottles, plastic beverage containers, aluminium cans, liquid packaging, flexible plastic packaging and multilayered packages. It will be implemented on pilot basis. <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As in 2010, the Cabinet gave its in principle approval to start de-novo reservation roster for the members and Chairpersons of Panchayati Raj Institutions. <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It allowed the Himachal Pradesh Forest Development Corporation to collect minor minerals and carry out dredging operations in rivers and ponds located in forest areas across the state, with the aim of better source management and environmental sustainability.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It decided to bifurcate the Elementary Education Block Ramshahar in Solan district by creating a new Elementary Education Block at Baddi, along with the creation and filling up of the requisite posts to ensure smooth functioning.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It also decided to re-organise the Development Blocks of Sulah, Bhawarna and Lambagaon of Kangra district and Bhoranj of Hamirpur District to facilitate the people of these areas.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHIMLA: The State Cabinet in its meeting held here today under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu decided to fill up 700 posts of Home Guard Volunteers in the Home Guards and Civil Defence Department. It gave its nod to regularise the services of 203 Panchayat Secretary (Zila Parishad cadre) who have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[392],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-139403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-392","tag-breaking"],"views":442,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.himshimlalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.himshimlalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.himshimlalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.himshimlalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.himshimlalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.himshimlalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139406,"href":"https:\/\/www.himshimlalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139403\/revisions\/139406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.himshimlalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.himshimlalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.himshimlalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}