Shimla, May 30 -- Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, while chairing a meeting with Administrative Secretaries on Friday, directed all the departments to ensure early payments of pending gratuity and leave encashment dues of Class-IV pensioners as per his budget announcement. He also asked to provide complete details of applicants seeking employment on compassionate grounds so that the state government could take an appropriate decision on these cases.

During the meeting, the CM sought details of the action taken against government employees found involved in the trafficking of chitta (heroin). He said that the state government had launched a mass movement against chitta and was taking stringent action against the dru...