Shimla, July 11 -- shailee.dogra@htlive.com

Amid ongoing devastation caused by heavy rainfall and flash floods in Himachal Pradesh, the state's revenue, horticulture and tribal development minister Jagat Singh Negi on Thursday said that they will table a bill to check the unplanned construction in the state in the upcoming monsoon assembly session.

This statement comes at a time when the Himachal Pradesh had already seen devastation with the onset of monsoon causing estimated loss of more than Rs.700 crore with 85 deaths and 35 people missing. According to the state emergency operations centre, a total of 192 transformers and 740 water supply schemes have been disrupted in the state so far. Mandi district that became the epicentre of de...