Overview
- Ministers approved merging the Anti-Narcotics Task Force with the Special Task Force under the Home Department and cleared a panchayat-wise anti-chitta drive.
- Disaster support was expanded by raising household-loss compensation to Rs 1 lakh, approving Rs 7 lakh for homes destroyed by fire, and sanctioning Rs 4.32 crore for Indian Air Force helicopter services.
- Employment moves include hiring 1,000 rogi mitras, creating 800 police constable posts, and filling 150 Junior Engineer (Civil) trainee positions, with 150 days of MNREGA work and permission for retaining walls up to Rs 2 lakh.
- Health and education capacity will grow with nine super-speciality departments at Hamirpur medical college with 73 posts, 27 senior residents at Tanda, new academic programs and college conversions, and a DPC to expedite promotion of 805 principals.
- The cabinet moved to redraw boundaries of 12 panchayats, a step ministers said may delay elections, and approved a 40% subsidy to convert 1,000 taxis to electric, alongside added posts for a digital forensic facility and a new police post at Ner Chowk.