Cabinet Meeting : 24 January 2024

Cabinet Meeting was held today at Mantralaya Mahanadi Bhawan, under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Shri Vishnu Deo Sai.

 The following important decisions were taken in the meeting –

•  The draft of Honourable Governor’s address to the second session of Sixth Legislative Assembly of Chhattisgarh for February-March 2024 was approved.
•  Cabinet approved the draft of Chhattisgarh Appropriation Bill-2024 to be presented in the Assembly for the third supplementary budget estimate 2023-2024.
•  The draft of Chhattisgarh Appropriation Bill-2024 was approved to be presented in the Assembly for the budget estimate year 2024-25.
•  Cabinet has approved the Chhattisgarh Excise Policy for the financial year 2024-25.  Cabinet has decided that no new liquor shops will be opened.
•  The draft of Chhattisgarh Civil Court (Amendment) Bill-2024 has been approved.

     In this amendment, a provision has been made to substitute ‘District Judge’ with ‘Principal District Judge’ and ‘Additional District Judge’ with ‘District Judge’.  Similarly, a provision has been made to substitute ‘Civil Judge Class -I’ with ‘Civil Judge Senior Class’ and ‘Civil Judge Class-II’ with ‘Civil Judge Junior Class’ and ‘District Court’ with ‘Principal District Court’.

•  The Cabinet has decided to create 5 posts of Joint Registrar (M) in the Honourable High Court Bilaspur from the contingency fund.