All Tourism hotels and State Rest houses to ensure online payment facilities

Punjab Newsline, Shimla January 8-

Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu while presiding over the Monday Meeting of Administrative Secretaries here today said that more than 65000 mutation cases have been disposed off till now.

It was for the first time that such Lok Adalats were held in the State due to the initiative of the Government.  The first Lok Adalat was held in the last week of October, 2023 and thereby again in December, 2023 and now on 4th and 5th January, 2024, wherein 11420 mutation cases and 1217 partition cases were settled.

The Chief Minister said that the fourth Revenue Lok Adalat would be held on 30th and 31st January, 2024. He said that it was for the first time that  200 percent  disposal rate of partition cases was observed as 3544 partition cases were attested from 3rd December, 2023 to 5th January, 2024 against the 1823 new cases which  came for disposal for the same period.

There was overwhelming response to the Revenue Lok Adalats and the State Government has accorded priority to settle the pending revenue cases in time bound manner, said Sukhu and added that the present State Government was committed to offer quality services to the people of the State at their door steps.

The Government was also making concerted efforts to strengthen the tourism infrastructure in the State. The CM directed to offer the facilities to QR Code Payments at all the Tourism Hotels, Himachal Bhawan, Himachal Sadan and Rest Houses of various departments of the State Government. He directed the tourism department to improve the customers' services being offered to the tourists as well.

The CM said that the State Government has introduced the first phase of Rajiv Gandhi Swarojgar Start-Up Yojna, offering e taxis permits to the youth of the State in order to provide self-employment avenues.