Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu offered floral tributes to former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on his birth anniversary at the Congress office, Rajiv Bhawan Shimla.
The injured has been identified as Saurabh Patial, the main accused in the attack on former Congress MLA Bamber Thakur.
Furthermore, where there is no alternative source of drinking water supply, water is being supplied through tankers, he said, adding that tankers are being deployed for water in Shimla, Kullu and Kangra districts.
The decision was taken during the sate Cabinet meeting held here on Tuesday, under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu.
While presiding over a high-level meeting here on Friday to review the progress of the establishment of Bulk Drug Park in the Haroli assembly segment of Una district, Sukhu directed to expedite the tender process.
“The government should also explain the reasons or compulsions that are stopping them from taking action against such a large-scale land mafia?,” the AAP leader said in a statement.
A state government official said even as the state government had adopted the natural farming technique (conceptualised by Subhash Palekar, a Padma Shree awardee 3 years back), the stage is now set to implement it in the entire country.
The debate was however denied by HP Vidhan Sabha Speaker Vipin Singh Parmar by saying that under Rule 67 debate on more than one issue can't be held.
Thakur said in order to ensure that more and more people belonging to the Other Backward Classes get benefited, the state government has enhanced the income limit in the layer from Rs 6 lakh per annum to Rs 8 lakh per annum in the year 2018.
Thakur said it was due to the benevolence of late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee that Gaddi community was given this special tribal status in the year 2003.
