Amid concerns over an expected third wave of COVID-19 which is likely to affect children, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar directed the Deputy Commissioners to ramp up health arrangements at the level of community health centres along with increasing the number of children wards well in advance.

The Chief Minister said that an ambulance should be stationed round the clock at every CHC so that people visiting these CHCs should get timely treatment and if required any critical patient should be immediately referred to the nearest district office.

He said that last year, an incentive amount of Rs 7,000 was given to the farmers for adopting crop diversification in place of paddy. Now, there is a plan to give incentive to those farmers too who will keep their fields empty so as to increase the land fertility.