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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said connected Sunday (January 25, 2026) that the Congress-led authorities had improved the State’s fiscal information done accrued gross procreation and expenditure cuts, adjacent arsenic helium blamed the BJP-led Central authorities for showing indifference towards the State and its people.
He was speaking astatine Pragpur successful Kangra territory during the 56th ‘Statehood Day’ solemnisation event.
Mr. Sukhu said that aft coming to power, the Congress authorities instantly restored the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) for authorities employees. “Due to the restoration of the OPS, the contiguous government’s further borrowing of astir ₹1,700 crore has been stopped. Despite this, the authorities has worked to amended the fiscal concern by augmenting its ain resources and cutting non-essential expenditure,” helium said.
Hitting retired astatine the erstwhile BJP government, Mr. Sukhu said that erstwhile the Congress assumed office, the BJP authorities had near liabilities exceeding ₹10,000 crore connected relationship of wage and pension arrears of employees. Now, the full outstanding arrears related to salaries, pensions, and different dues magnitude to ₹8,555 crore. Despite the State’s strained fiscal condition, the implicit outgo of arrears of pensioners and household pensioners aged 70 and supra would beryllium made successful January this year, for which ₹90 crore would beryllium spent,” helium said.
Revenue shortage grants
“The erstwhile BJP authorities had got gross shortage grants amounting to ₹46,862 crore, whereas the contiguous authorities has received lone ₹18,903 crore truthful far. If full Central transfers are taken into account, these stood astatine ₹1,16,000 crore during the BJP government, portion the existent authorities has received lone ₹70,191 crore to date,” helium said.
Accusing the BJP authorities of compromising with the interests of the State, Mr. Sukhu said the Congress would not let the looting of resources. “Within conscionable 3 years of the contiguous Congress government, the State’s gross has reached ₹49,500 crore, which was astatine ₹55,000 crore during the full 5 twelvemonth tenure of the BJP government. This has besides happened owed to ‘Vyavastha Parivartan’.”
The Chief Minister said the authorities had initiated the mentation of a papers titled ‘Samriddh Himachal Vision’, the nonsubjective of which was to beforehand improvement that was environmentally sustainable, disaster-resilient and inclusive of each sections of society.
“This Vision would service arsenic a shared roadworthy map, maintaining a equilibrium betwixt improvement and responsibility, advancement and biology conservation, and aspirations and reality, truthful that Himachal Pradesh could proceed connected a way of dependable advancement portion preserving its unsocial identity,” helium added.
