Honourable Chief Minister Himachal Pradesh, Sh. Prem Kumar Dhumal launched the NICNET based Video Conferencing facility in the 5 Offices of the HP State Pollution Control Board on 2nd April 2012. The VC facility has been set up through NIC by connecting the HP PCB offices on NICNET. The offices covered include the Head office at Shimla and 4 Regional offices at Paonta Sahib, Parwanoo, Baddi and Una. The Regional offices of HP PCB are situated in Industrial Areas of the State and are located on border locations. Therefore, the VC facility is important because of distance from the State headquarters. The Chief Minister inaugurated the VC facility from his own VC studios in CM office.

During the inauguration ceremony, the Chief Minister was apprised of the status of industrial investment during the last year in these Industrial areas. The local industrialists from these locations expressed happiness over setting up of the VC facility in the Regional offices and informed the Chief Minister about the issues concerning them. They also expressed a desire that it would be extremely beneficial to the State Government in case they could interact directly with the Chief Minister at least once a month using the VC facility.
The Chief Secretary of Himachal Pradesh, Ms Harinder Hira and Additional Chief Secretary Mr. Sudripto Roy were also present during the occasion and interacted with the officials present in various locations.

Sh. Sanjay Sood, Member Secretary of the HP State Pollution Control Board, thanked the Chief Minister on establishment of the VC facility and informed him about the proposed utilization of the VC set up for day-to-day functioning.

Dr. Saurabh Gupta, SIO NIC Himachal Pradesh informed the Chief Minister about NIC VC set up, its integration with HP PCB VC and activities planned for its optimal utilization.