HP govt making all efforts to resolve people’s issues: Negi

Revenue minister Jagat Singh Negi said that the state government has, in its 14-month tenure, made all-possible efforts to resolve common public’s problems.

“A new chapter of public welfare has been added to the history of Himachal Pradesh,” he said, and added that the efforts of the state government were yielding positive results, due to which the Bharatiya Janata party leaders were “panicking and hatching conspiracies”.

He added that the state government has reinstated the old pension scheme for 1.36 lakh government employees, which has secured their old age. After retirement, the employees who were getting a pension of ₹2,000 under the new pension scheme, were getting more than ₹20,000 after restoration of the old pension.

The revenue minister said that keeping the promise made to women, the state government has started providing aid of ₹1,500 per month to women above 18 years of age, but the BJP leaders were trying to stop this scheme by becoming “antiwomen”.

He added that the state government was well aware of the problems of the people, which is why the it organised revenue Lok Adalats. More than 90,000 cases were settled in the lok adalats, he pointed out.

“Earlier, no government made any serious efforts to settle the pending revenue matters, but the intention and policy of the present state government is clear and our aim is only to solve the problems of the people,” he said.

He added that chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu belongs to a common family and hence, knows the pain and difficulties of the people.