Garkhal traders protest development plan again

Officials of the Town and Country Planning Department including Director Amar Singh, State Town Planner AR Sankhyan and Solan Town Planner Sandeep Sharma visited Garkhal today. The officials assured the villagers and the public representatives that their suggestions and objections would be considered. But the protesters, under the banner of Gramin Adhikar Sanghrash Samiti GASS, outrightly rejected their pleas.

The protesters shouted slogans, demanding exclusion of all the panchayats from the development plan. They urged that the plan should be implemented only in Kasauli Cantonment. The protesters asserted that the 8216;tedious process8217; for obtaining permissions to construct houses, hotels, guest houses, flour mills and even cowsheds would halt the development of the region.