Rs. 181.89 lakh after providing depreciation to the tune of Rs. 201.15 lakh. Besides, the operational profit of the Corporation for the last year was Rs. 224.59 lakh and net profit of Rs. 19.72 lakh after wiping out previous year net losses of Rs. 457.37 lakh.
The Chief Minister appreciated the efforts of the Corporation for being honoured with “National Award on e-Governance for the year 2015-16 and Gold Award” by Govt. of India for implementing online hotel reservation system and innovative use of Information Communication Technology by State Government. The award was given by Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister, Maharashtra to joint team of HPTDC and NIC during National E-Governance Conference held at Nagpur.
All the non-official and official members presented the award certificate and trophy to Virbhadra Singh today. The award money share of HPTDC amounting to Rs. 28,571 was also donated to Chief Minister Relief Fund.
Apart from this, it was also revealed that Himachal Pradesh had been awarded “Better Holiday Awards 2016 for Triund (MacLeodganj)” as best holiday destination by 'Holiday IQ' which would be presented on 30th March, 2016 at Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi.
Chief Minister said that the new units, Hotel Gauri Kund in Bharmour of district Chamba, Hotel Nupur in Nurpur of district Kangra and four Cottages at Kaza had been made functional. Further, the construction of 42 hotel rooms at Kasauli was also in progress.
It was also disclosed that Corporation has spent Rs. 8.57 crore for re-furbishing of properties. In the fiscal 2016-17 around 15 properties had been proposed for renovation and a sum of Rs. 3.50 crore would be spent.
The Chief Minister stressed upon improving the quality of service in HPTDC units and said that the infrastructure needs to be strengthened. He said that efforts were on to fill the vacant posts besides 211 vacant posts which had been filled by way of promotion and 173 utility workers had been absorbed as trainees and regularized in various suitable disciplines. Employment to 37 officials had also been provided on contract basis, he added.
Chief Minister said that one of the priorities was to release timely benefits to its employees and the Corporation should ensure this.
Chief Parliamentary Secretary Mansa Ram, Vice-Chairman HPTDC, Harish Janartha, Chief Secretary, P. Mitra, Additional Chief Secretaries, V.C. Pharka and Dr. Srikant Baldi, Director, Tourism, Mohan Chauhan, Members BoD, HPTDC Surinder Sethi, Varinder Dharmani, Gopal Krishan Mahant, Rupesh Kanwal, Vijay Inder Karan, Amarjeet Singh, were also present on the occasion.
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