So far the notification of increase in wages is not issued … It was a populist decision in wake of Hamirpur Loksabha seat. It was clear to him that his son is going to fight .

Hard truth remains that WE ARE INDUSTRIAL BACKWARD AND WILL REMAIN INDUSTRIAL BACKWARD STATE for years to come .

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Narender

Yes,the issue of Indutrial development is well pointed out.Another issue is of removing rstriction of settlement of people from other states.Today our himachal state subject goes outside the state to seek employement.From Punjab to Delhi–transport & Petrol pumpms are manned by our people only.The economy can not improve.If more venues are open in own state they will stay home & earn.Our state will attract other people to come& work here.

Today USA has suffered the decline.Her own people are not used to hard work & industry suffered labor.The whole country,even UK is suffering.Do not be surprised if Rupee replaces dollar in a decade or so.These countries denied God,they turn to all wickedness & thus called for the wrath of God.All over USA & UK unemployment & homeless is at rampage.The rules & facilities encourage people to live immoral life.
On the otherhand no one can have real freedom either.In 1995,Goverment in one state(Texas) had authorised all people to own a weapon to guard them self.
India is far better country today in comparison to Europe & Western life.
Globalisation/Environmental issue is a big farce started by them.The reality has come to surface.The scientists at NASA & elsewhere are defying the call of globalisation.

I wish our Chief Minister may get wise on the subect & can take the lead with proper intelects’ guidance from the concerned sectors.
Our state is Geographically on top of the country with Kashmir at par with us.We have better situation to take the lead to improve our outlook & attitude to some salient issues.We need to think that we are major part of the country,be proud to be Indian citizen & do not follow the old pattern of Kings to stay devided for power & invite the enemy to take the benefit,as in Hindustan’s time;prior to British Rule.
For example,consider just one factor,with the aim to impress the west we folowed blindly & shut down Industries,truck & buses suffered months bycott for CNG stuff & smoke problem.Now the old findings are being realised that we were expecting Ice Age danger & the propaganda has led the otherway around.
Its just a food for thought in this page to pnder over.Do some home work & get the facets of all such issues & be blessing to our country.

Now a recent decision banning all kinds of gifts/mementos/shawls/topies etc. will also help in controlling the sycophancy levels in this state which was reaching the standard of UP and Bihar over the last few years.
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Government officials always mastered in the adjustments of these items to some other accounting heads. Despite knowing everything, our so called “representatives” as well as “public servants” customized this corrupt practice and enjoyed immensely with the public money. It was very surprising for me to see how a state supported bank in loss managed to purchase flowers worth Rs.19000 and shawls/topies worth Rs. 28000 for an hour long function last year. Now, we can think about the expenditure levels in many such functions daily.

Also any himachali neta with a paunch should be asked to travel on foot and do trekking. Since when have himachlis started having paunches!

Also any kind of rgerssive behaviour in name fof tradtion should be banned , like touching neta’s feet.

BTW, I think old template n this site was better.

we really need to appreciate good deeds done,not only by Govt but also by people too.

Govt should come out with action plan for 5 years, a calender.

they ought to work in all areas ,
specially schemes where more jobs are generated.

but the pertinent question arises here is that we should also learn to appreciate the good policy decisions taken by the government , we often forget good poicy decsions rather become too critical all of sudden ,as a citizen of India and part of himachal state we should look forward for positive things and do needful and contribute individually in our surroundings and at the arena of our social set up also ,Criticism should be constructive and supportive to the system to govern people more effectively and the best without any partyline comments ,we have to come out of our shell as individually and to shun our petty interests ,we should try to do our best by supporting the government whosoever is in power ,there is no hesitation to me what appears through Dr.rakesh sharma’s article needs appreciation for having courage to say the fact and the real by expressing his opinion.

Thanks for the comment. Before writing this article, the same question about early appreciation also came into my mind. But I thought it appropriate for the motivational purpose only. (You can read my reply about the similar comment by Mr. Amit and the first paragraph of article)

I am an ordinary citizen who love Himachal and try to highlight only those issues otherwise forgotten somewhere. There are many people of similar name in Himachal and so should not be treated as an act of sycophancy for benefits. You will constantly notice me writing about any wrong doing of the government also. That is perhaps the true spirit of citizen journalism.

We cannot ignore the importance of social security pension, which is increased by 50%. The earlier increase of 100% (from Rs. 100 to Rs. 200) was also given by the Dhumal government in earlier regime. About 20% increase in minimum wages may look populist but such a populism should be welcomed at least by the people fighting for daily living, that too not a month before elections but after elections are over. By understanding the nature of price effect on money wages than the salaries, I had also pointed about its significance over DA and interim relief to salaried class. I fully agree with you about linking it to CP index but this also depends on the government’s will which makes us optimist by the current decision.
There are off course many issues like industrialization, tourism development, unemployment etc. to be addressed. But I am at least happy with the beginning and optimist for future. If it fails to deliver, people do not spare anyone! It is for sure.
Had I written it now I would have added the decisions like open access instead of darbar and removing unnecessary vehicles and district officer’s in respective boundaries following the cavalcade for the sake of protocol in this small peaceful state.

Its too early to comment on populist decisions taken .
1. It would have much better had Govt. linked wages with Inflation index for yearly revision.
2. Govt to focus on industrial development in the state . This area is constantly unaddressed .