The Himachal Pradesh government has proposed to engage 37 law officers, including 21 additional advocate generals, 13 deputy advocate generals and three assistant advocate generals to plead the cases in different courts.
One additional AG would be for the Supreme Court, while 20 AAGs, 13 DAGs and three assistant AGs would be for High Courts.
The government has already appointed senior advocate Ashok as advocate general and the office of the AG has invited applications from desirous eligible candidates on prescribed for by or before February 1, 2018.
The BJP government had decided to constitute a committee for appointing competent and eligible lawyers to these posts and inviting applications is the first step in this direction.
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