Shimla, Sept. 26 -- With the aim to improve the quality of services in all the government circuit houses and the PWD Rest houses all over the state, monthly maintenance certification will be done.

In the first of its kind initiative with an objective of numerical ranking, the state government has taken a decision to monitor and inspect the upkeep and maintenance activities of PWD rest and circuit houses 12 times in a year i.e. once in a month, sain chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu in a statement issued on Thursday.

"We are committed to providing best of services to all alike and have decided to open the rest houses to the officers/officials, common masses and tourists as well," he added.

"Nowhere in any other state such an initiat...