SHIMLA: A day after the Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla wrote two letters to the Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on the issues of illegal and unscientific mining and the the unauthorised construction of buildings in the hills and along the rivers, the Himachal Pradesh government on Saturday banned the cutting of hills for any kind of private development and construction activity, except for rebuilding of disaster affected buildings and roads, in the entire state for two weeks till September 16th.
Apart from this fresh planning permission/building permissions shall also be banned for the commercial and tourism units in Shimla, Mandi, Kullu, Kangra, Solan and Chamba districts during the period.
