The Himachal Pradesh cabinet today decided to raise the retirement age of government doctors from 58 to 60 tears.
It also approved the Market Intervention Scheme(MIS) for procurement of mango during the current season.
The Cabinet also gave its nod to enhance the honorarium of part-time workers in education department from Rs.1700 to Rs. 1900 from April 1 this year.
The cabinet approved framing of a policy for grant of ownership rights to leaseholders who were given land on lease in pre-independence in Dalhousie Municipal Council area.
The cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, also granted ex-post facto sanction to release 4-9-14 pay scale to all eligible Medical Officers in Health Department in relaxation of condition of passing departmental examination.
In order to provide specialist medical facilities to the people of Tribal and remote area (Kaza and Keylong), the Cabinet approved extension of the agreement with Apollo Hospital Enterprise Ltd. For one year.
The Cabinet also gave its approval for upgradation of 150-bed Civil Hospital Palampur to the level of 200-bed hospital.
The Cabinet decided to extend the validity of letter of intent of Jangi Thopan (480MW) and Thopan Powari HEP (960MW) and to allot Tandi (104 MW) and Rashil (130 MW) HEPs.
The Cabinet gave approval to allot 24 hydel projects with capacity between2 MW and 5 MW to the qualified applicants, as per the recommendation of HIMURJA.
