Chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu will start his 10-day winter sojourn in Dharamsala from tomorrow.
During the sojourn, the Chief Minister would tour various areas of Kangra district and inaugurate and lay foundation stone of various developmental projects in the district.
As per the tour program, tomorrow the Chief Minister would hold a meeting with the officials regarding the ongoing development projects.
He would also listen to the grievances of the public in Dharamsala mini secretariat.
On January 17 the Chief Minister would inaugurate various projects in Dharamsala including meeting hall of Zila Parishad, women police station in police lines and hostel building of mountaineering institute in McLeodganj.
He would lay the foundation stone of food street market being developed under the Smart City project on international cricket stadium road.
On January 18, the CM would visit the Haripur area in Dehra assembly constituency where he would inaugurate the wildlife information centre and lay the foundation stone of high level bridge on Gajj river in the area. The Chief Minister will also visit Jawali Assembly constituency.
On January 19, he would inaugurate district forensic unit in Nurpur Assembly constituency and lay foundation stones of various road projects in the area. The next day, he would visit Manali and inaugurate various development projects.
The CM will return to Dharamsala on January 21. He would inaugurate and lay foundation stone of various development projects in Kangra Assembly constituency.
The programme of the CM for January 22 and 23 was yet to be declared while on 24th he will tour Dharamsala segment.
On January 25 he would preside over the state level Himachal Day function to be held at Baijnath. He would inaugurate the paragliding school and parking of tourism department at Bir.
The practice of holding winter sojourn in lower areas of Himachal was started by former Congress CM Virbhadra Singh in 1990s.
Virbhadra Singh started the winter move of CM as he faced charges of discrimination with lower areas of Himachal.
The practice of holding winter move was continued by BJP CM, Prem Kumar Dhumal who besides Kangra extended his stay in other lower areas of Himachal as Una and Hamirpur district also during the winter months.
BJP CM Jai Ram Thakur, however, discontinued the formal winter sojourn move on the plea that he had extensively travelling in all Assembly constituencies.