Himachal CM announces SDM offices at Jubbal, Kotkhai

Shimla, July 16

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur today announced the opening of two SDM offices at Jubbal and Kotkhai, besides enhancement in the procurement price of apple under the Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) by Re 1 per kilogram. He was addressing the elected representatives of the Panchayati Raj Institutions during the district level Swaran Jayanti Gram Swaraj Sammelan at Kharapathar.

Thakur also announced the opening of a Block Development Office at Kotkhai, fire sub-station at Tikkar in Jubbal Kotkhai area, sub-tehsil at Kalbog and shifting of the office of sub-tehsil Sawara (Saraswatinagar) and Sawara police ptation to the new building of the HP Power Corporation.

He said that Rs 20 lakh each would be provided to nine newly created panchayats in the Rohru and Jubbal-Kotkhai Vidhan Sabha areas for construction of panchayat bhawans.

He said that elected representatives must come up with innovative ideas and schemes for the development of their panchayats. — TNS