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This is an archive article published on April 25, 2011

Himachal confidential

Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration was kind of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Additional Chief Secretary Sarojini Thakur,who received the honours from Manmohan Singh in New Delhi days before her retirement.

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Environmental high

Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration was kind of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Additional Chief Secretary (Environment,Science and Technology) Sarojini Thakur,who received the honours from Manmohan Singh in New Delhi days before her retirement. The award came as a reward for the state’s pioneering success in implementing ban on polythene .As Thakur retires this month,all eyes are on her successor in the environment department,which is also targeting next year’s award for its initiative,Community-Led Assessment,Awareness and Advocacy (CLAP),a project for making Himachal country’s first carbon-neutral state.

Bragta-Balnatah road

The Chinese company carrying out the 80-kilometre-long road construction project,costing Rs 350 crore,in the apple belt has only 15 of its people on the job. The Government of India has given visas to only these many people from China. If the road is not ready by the next Assembly polls scheduled in 2012,it may make goings tough for Horticulture Minister Narinder Bragta,whose supporters and fellow apple growers have already named this road ‘Bragta-Balnatah Road’. Khushi Ram Balnatah is BJP’s MLA from Rohru,while Bragta represents the apple belt of Jubbal-Kotkhai.

Hurdles before vigilance,/b>

The state’s Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau,currently investigating dozens of bribery and disproportionate assets cases against top government officials may have to struggle its way to get the guilty punished by the courts. An affidavit recently filed in the High Court by the chief secretary has given a new twist to the agency’s powers to draw up a list of “tainted” officers. The affidavit claimed that the agency had no such rights.

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