Author: Wise Himachal Bureau

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has stayed the notification of transfer of SDM Rohru after just one month. The High Court has issued notices to the Chief Secretary of the Government and the SDM Rajgarh, who has been made the respondent personally. The next hearing on the matter will be on July 11. The order was passed during the preliminary hearing of the petition filed by SDM Rohru Sunny Sharma in a division bench of Justice Amjad A Saeed and Justice Tarlok Singh Chauhan. As per the facts given in the petition, only one month after the petitioner, transfer orders were passed from Rohru…

Questions have been raised on the Forest Range Officer recruitment of the State Public Service Commission. In the recruitment of 45 posts, only seven candidates have passed, more than 200 candidates have sought various information through RTI regarding answer sheets and recruitment process. The students of Horticulture University Nauni are also angry due to not getting the recruitment quota. Advertisement for the recruitment of Range Forest Officer was released in March 2021. 37 posts were reserved for those studying B.Sc. Forestry and 8 posts for non-B.Sc. Forestry students. Candidates in the age group of 21 to 31 years as on…

IIT Mandi has demanded Rs 66 lakh for conducting a detailed survey of the steep hill behind Bhattakuffar fruit mandi. The amount has left APMC, Shimla, in two minds about getting the survey done from the IIT Mandi. The IIT Mandi team declared the market yard unsafe for trading and gathering of people until remedial measures were taken. In the detailed survey, IIT Mandi or any other agency that the APMC chooses for the job would suggest remedial measures to make the market yard safe.

The religiously significant and one of the most difficult pilgrimages Shrikhand Yatra to the 18,570 feet Shrikhand Mahadev peak in Anni of this district will be organised from July 11 to 24. Registration to begin within a week The online registration for the devotees will begin within a weekThe pilgrims will have to upload their medical fitness certificate in addition to the registration fee of Rs 200Five base camps will be set up where facilities of registration, medical check-up, information on yatra, rescue teams, emergency equipment, medicines, etc, will be available. The DC said the administration had started preparations for…

Supply and transportation of all kinds of business goods including apples, almonds, pharma, industrial products will be easy from Himachal Pradesh. For this, the Himachal government has notified the state’s Transport and Supply (Logistics) Policy 2022. This has been notified by Additional Chief Secretary Industries RD Dhiman. This policy will remain in force for a period of five years. In this policy, it has been proposed to set up a logistics park in the state. It will have many facilities under one roof. The park will have an inland container depot. There will also be container freight stations, airfreight stations, warehouses, cold chain storage and logistics infrastructure. At…

An investigation has begun into the Timber Trail ropeway accident at Parwanoo. The statements of the trolley operators of Timber Trail Resort (TTR) have been recorded. Documents related to the ropeway have also been seized. The resort personnel have been banned from going near the ropeway point. At around 11 am on Tuesday, the police team led by ASP Solan Ashok Verma reached the resort. After questioning the technical staff operating the trolley here, the investigation team inspected the ropeway point. ASP Solan Ashok Verma said that now further investigation will be done with the technical committee formed for the ropeway.  It is being told that…

Six High Courts of the country including Himachal Pradesh got their Chief Justice on Sunday. Justice Amjad A Syed of Bombay High Court has been appointed as the Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh. This information has been given by tweeting on behalf of the Ministry of Law. Five judges have been upgraded to the Chief Justice, while Telangana High Court Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma has been transferred as the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court. Their names were recommended by the Supreme Court Collegium last month. According to the Ministry’s Law Department, Justice Vipin Sanghi of the Delhi High Court has been…

Pre-monsoon rains have gained momentum in Himachal Pradesh. On Friday, there was fresh snowfall on the higher peaks including Rohtang. It rained heavily in Dharamsala. 42 mm was recorded in Dharamsala. Clouds also rained in Manali, Bhuntar, Bilaspur, Nahan, Chamba, Dalhousie. It was raining with light cloudy sky in the capital Shimla. Due to the change in the weather of the state, there was a decrease of eight to 10 degree Celsius in the maximum temperature on Friday. The Meteorological Center Shimla has also issued a yellow alert of heavy rain and thunderstorms on Saturday. Chances of monsoon reaching the…

The water level in all schemes has gone down during summers and remedial measures are being taken and a schedule is being made for the supply during the summer and peak tourist season, said Urban Development Minister Suresh Bhardwaj. Bhardwaj, who visited the site of the Giri water supply scheme, said the silt in the Giri water supply scheme had been removed and a tube settler would be installed soon, he said. The SJPNL is providing water tankers free of cost in localities facing water scarcity and can be contacted on the Helpline number 0177-2658916. Shimla Jal Prabandhan Nigam Limited…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that all aspirational districts should be inspirational districts of India. The aspirational district program should be extended to the block and city level. The Aspirational Districts program launched in 2018 was aimed at transforming 112 districts showing low development in the social sector. Presiding over the second day meeting of the three-day first National Conference of Chief Secretaries in Dharamsala, the PM said, the government should make efforts to make these inspiring districts. The best, young officers of the country should be posted in the aspirational districts. The experience and learning they will get while working in…

For the construction of parking in the urban bodies of Himachal Pradesh, now the state government will spend 75 percent of the amount, while the urban bodies will spend 25 percent. Earlier, for the construction of parking, the government had to spend 50 percent and the same amount was spent by the urban bodies. The state government has issued its notification. Himachal Pradesh has 57 urban bodies and five municipal corporations. The problem of parking is increasing day by day. Himachal is an important state from the point of view of tourism. Thousands of tourists arrive everyday. Parking is a problem in tourist places like Shimla, Manali,…

A 3-day international literary festival ‘Unmesh’ is going to start in Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh, from June 16. Eminent author Geetanjali Shree, who has been awarded the Booker Prize for the novel ‘Tomb of Sand’, will give her views on ‘Women Writing in Indian Languages’. Gitanjali Shree will speak exclusively at this festival of manifestation at the Viceroy’s Auditorium on 18th June. In the episode of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, the outline of various programs in this festival, which is going to be held jointly under the aegis of the Union Ministry of Culture and Sahitya Akademi. The festival, which…

The three-day first National Conference of Chief Secretaries of all the states is starting from Wednesday at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) Stadium, Dharamsala. For this the Chief Secretaries have started reaching Dharamshala. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over the conference on 16 and 17 June. The conference will be inaugurated by Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba at 5:00 pm on Wednesday. For this, a pandal has been decorated in the cricket stadium. In this conference, which will run from June 15 to 17, the implementation of new education policy, urban governance, crop diversification and self-reliance in agricultural commodities will be discussed. More than 200…

Independent MLAs Prakash Rana and Hoshiar Singh joined the BJP on Wednesday. Both took the membership of the party in the presence of Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur, BJP State President Suresh Kashyap and other senior leaders. Prakash Rana became MLA from Jogindernagar defeating Gulab Singh Thakur, who was the Revenue Minister in the Dhumal government, and Hoshiar Singh, who was the IPH minister, defeating Ravindra Singh Ravi. Gulab Singh Thakur is the brother-in-law of former Chief Minister Dhumal and father-in-law of Union Minister Anurag Thakur, while Ravindra Ravi is also considered close to Dhumal. However, later both the independent…

According to the order of the Election Commission of India, IAS Manish Garg has been appointed as the new Chief Electoral Officer of Himachal Pradesh. A notification in this regard has been issued by the Personnel Department on Wednesday. On May 26, Manish Garg, who returned from central deputation, was posted as Principal Secretary Education by the Himachal Government.

H.P. Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar on Friday visited the Government Senior Secondary School Baldeyan and called upon the students to read good books. During this visit, the NCC cadets escorted to the governor. Governor Arlekar interacted with 41 students of class IX about an quarter hour and governor distributed books written on the struggles and successes of great men to the students. Language teacher Dr. Deshraj was also present in the class on this occasion. “The books are true friends and guides. Asked the children that if you go to fairs and markets, instead of buying toys and sweets, ask…

Former National Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi’s rally will be held in Himachal Pradesh. The matter was discussed in the meeting of office bearers held in Congress office on Thursday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come to Shimla and launched a scathing attack on the Congress. Now to answer the rally, the state Congress has decided to call the former national president to Himachal. A proposal in this regard will be sent to the high command soon. In the meeting, a call was also made to take senior office bearers along with the workers to make the Congress victorious. The MLAs, former MLAs and party…

This time the countrymen will get Himachali apple expensive. The reason for this is that the prices of cartons and packing trays have gone up by about 18 per cent. The problems of the growers have increased firstly due to drought in the state and now the cartons and expensive trays. This year, the prices of cartons have increased by Rs 8 to 15 per box as compared to last year. Prinkle Khanna, operator of Shree Bhagwati Industries Baddi, says that this year the prices of cartons have increased by 15 to 18 percent. Paper mills say the increase in GST from 12 per cent…