Himachal makes building plans approval easier

The Himachal Cabinet  which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Monday decided to make it easy for the people to get their building plans approved in the State.

The Cabinet approved delegating powers of Director Town and Country Planning department (TCP) to the Executive officers or Panchayat secretaries of the 20 Nagar Panchayats which were governed by sub rules of Urban Development Department till date.

The people of these urban local bodies will now get all the approvals and clearances through a single window system and will not have to apply to (TCP).

These urban local bodies include Nagar Panchayats Sunni, Kotkhai, Jubbal, Arki, Rajgarh, Shri Naina Devi Ji, Daulatpur, Santoshgarh, Tahliwal, Kangra, Nurpur, Nagrota, Dehra, Jwalamukhi, Jawali, Chowari, Sarkaghat, Riwalsar, Karsog and Banjar.

To enable people to get easy approvals for their building plans, the Cabinet approved setting up of  Rs 748.30 lakh Regional-cum-Facilitation Centre (RFC) of National Medicinal Plants Board, Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India at Jogindernagar in district Mandi along-with requisite staff for running the Centre.

The Centre will be provided annual grant of Rs 149.60 lakh. The aim of setting up of this Centre is to provide inputs for conservation, cultivation, technology up-gradation, sale of medicinal plants, training and research, development of region specific quality planting material.

The Cabinet also accorded approval for the demands for the supplementary grants for the year 2017-18.

The Council of Ministers also discussed the issue pertaining to providing recognition to Himachali regional language films and consider a possible  solution for Himachali film makers,  who make their films in regional language and dialects, so that they could be recognised for awards for such films at National level. 

The Cabinet also congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and National BJP President Amit Shah for impressive performance of the BJP in State Assembly elections of North-East States.