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The Himachal Pradesh Cabinet connected Saturday (October 25, 2025) decided to widen the presumption of Mayors and Deputy Mayors of municipal corporations from two-and-a-half years to 5 years.
The determination volition payment the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Shimla Municipal Corporation, whose two-and-a-half-year word is expiring successful November 2025.
Briefing media persons successful Shimla, Industries Minister Harshwardhan Chauhan said a two-and-a-half-year word was raising apprehensions of horse-trading and pointed retired that the word successful panchayati raj institutions is 5 years.
The Cabinet gathering chaired by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu besides gave a motion to heighten the honorarium of 510 Special Police Officers (SPOs), including 403 successful tribal and 107 successful non-tribal areas, by ₹300 per month.
It besides accorded ex-post facto support for the enhancement of honorarium of ₹500 per period of School Management Committee (SMC) teachers, including Trained Graduate Teachers (TGT), classical and vernacular teachers, Junior Basic Training (JBT) teachers, lecturers, and diploma and superior acquisition (DPEs), mid-day repast workers, and part-time h2o carriers.
Both the decisions would beryllium implemented with effect from April 1, 2025, a connection said.
The Cabinet decided to let the Transport Department to assistance support for the conversion of 1,000 petrol and diesel taxis into electrical vehicles with a proviso of 40% subsidy nether the Rajiv Gandhi Swarojgar Yojana.
It approved the connection to streamline the implementation and businesslike monitoring mechanics of Prakritic Kheti Khushhal Kisan Yojna and Himachal Pradesh Crop Diversification Project (JICA-Phase-II). This mechanics volition spell a agelong mode successful fostering coherence betwixt the departments concerned, too ensuring businesslike governance and execution nether the flagship programmes of the projects.
Further, the Cabinet decided to represent a Cabinet sub-committee, headed by Revenue Minister Jagat Singh Negi, to finalise the draught of Rural Area Development guidelines to beryllium adopted by gram panchayats successful the signifier of exemplary by-laws to modulate operation activities successful the agrarian areas.
Rural Development Minister Anirudh Singh, Urban Development Minister Vikramaditya Singh and Town and Country Planning Minister Rajesh Dharmani volition beryllium the members of this Cabinet sub-committee.
It gave its support to see 19 games successful the database of games that suffice meritorious sportspersons for information for assignment to posts nether the State Government departments, boards, and corporations.
These games see baseball, para sports, rugby triathlon, deaf sports, mallakhamb, kudo, centrifugal sports, pencak silat, shooting ball, brushed tennis, rotation ball, tenpin bowling, tug-of-war, fencing, netball, sepak takraw, wushu, and kickboxing.
The Cabinet approved the instauration of a abstracted and circumstantial State cadre for inferior bureau adjunct (IT) nether the Directorate of Recruitment by creating 300 posts arsenic Job Trainee successful the archetypal phase.
The support was besides fixed for the operation of Nahan Medical College astatine the recently selected onshore for the enlargement of the college. The Cabinet besides agreed to assistance ex-post facto support for caller post-graduation and ace specialty courses to modulate admissions successful these courses successful the Department of Medical Education and Research.
It besides gave a motion to the framing of the caller Resident Doctors Policy-2025. The Cabinet accorded, successful principle, support to the connection of the Health Department for framing a argumentation to modulate the assignment of adjunct unit nurses.
It besides approved the amendments successful the strategy for mounting up ground-mounted star powerfulness projects with involvement subsidy of 5 and 4 per cent to bona fide Himachal residents ranging from 100-KW to 2-MW successful tribal and non-tribal areas, respectively.
The Cabinet besides gave its support to found a Tourism Investment Promotion Council (TIPC), which would enactment connected a mechanics to attract, evaluate, and facilitate tourism investments efficiently and transparently.
The Cabinet gave its support to let 15 days' paternity permission to contractual employees successful the State.
