HARYANA

With the main Rabi sowing period set to end in a month, aureacrisis seems to be brewing inHaryana. Though state Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture minister JP Dalal has claimed that the state boasts of ample stock of urea,farmersin his own Loharu assembly constituency in Bhiwani district who are forced to stand in long queues to get the fertilizer tell a different story.

In fact, the entire sowing season has been marred with the shortage of the crucial fertiliser while the government has been claiming that all is well. Farmers in Bhiwani have now given the agriculture minister an ultimatum, stating that if urea is not available by December 23, they will not allow him to enter his constituency and would launch a protest.

Urea is a source of nitrogen. According to Baljeet Singh Bhayan, an expert, nitrogen is the most important of the 16 nutrients since it boosts crop Growth. Urea is given first during the sowing period, followed by a 30-day interval till the first Irrigation.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday said that digital records of every inch of land in the state will be maintained to have real time data about the number of ponds, roads or .

Chairing a meeting with the officers concerned associated with this project, Khattar directed the Survey of India and the Revenue Department to complete the large scale mapping project for this work at the earliest. The department concerned should complete the technical works related to the large scale mapping project in each village sequentially so that no work remains pending in any village, Khattar added.

The CM directed the officers that complete mapping should be done outside the villages as well while executing large scale mapping. This should also include houses and other infrastructural constructions built in the fields outside the village, he said.

He further directed the officers of Survey of India to complete this large scale mapping work at the earliest by increasing the workforce of the employees. During the meeting, the team of Revenue and Survey of India apprised the CM that the work of large scale mapping has also been completed in eight urban areas of Jind, Karnal and Sonipat districts.

With this, each property in these areas can now be identified. In this, information about the area of the property, its location on the map and details of the property owner can also be easily obtained. The Chief Minister also congratulated the officials on the completion of this work.

Notably, Haryana is the first state to create a separate corporation to speed up the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) driven Governance application.

The monitoring of the projects run by various departments can be done through satellite and the data related to all the departments will be available in these labs, the Chief Minister said after inaugurating the GIS Lab set up by Haryana Space Application Centre (HARSAC) in 11 districts of the state through a virtual meeting.

The Chief Minister also interacted with the Cabinet Ministers, public representatives and officials of the state present in these 11 districts.

He said that data would be collected and preserved using satellite images in these labs which are being built by HARSAC. After this, complete details of the data received such as name of the property owner, contact number, area of the property, status of the property related to residential or commercial area will be recorded. Also, the location of the property and the public facilities available in the area will also be easily accessible, he said.

Not only this, authorized and unauthorized colonies can be easily identified through satellite as well. Even while buying a property, people will know whether that property is in the authorized area or not, the Chief Minister said.

He also said that data related to all departments including Revenue, Irrigation, , Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Development and Panchayat, Police and Education Department will be collected in the lab.

The data of all the departments will be available online in the GIS Lab and the common man will be able to access the information easily, he added.

Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday announced free-of-cost Education for children whose verified family income is less than Rs 1.8 lakh per annum under the state gvernments ambitious Parivar Pehchan Patra Scheme.

The CM made the announcement while interacting with students who have cracked civil Services exam 2020 and JEE (Advanced) 2021 under the governments Super 100 Programme, during a state-level felicitation programme in Panchkula.

The CM said the education system of Lord Macaulay was focused on the Three Rs: Writing, Reading and Arithmetic, which did not ensure the holistic development of a citizen.

At Krishna Utsav, life events of Shri Krishna will be presented in an enchanting manner with the help of tableaux, music, dance and modern technology.

Regarding the programme of ‘Krishna-Utsav’, the Chief Minister directed that just as Surajkund International Handicraft Fair in Faridabad district and Gita Mahotsav of Kurukshetra have special importance at national and international level, similarly the proposed ‘Krishna-Utsav’ has special significance and should be organized accordingly.

He said that Lord Krishna has a special relation with the land of Haryana. In Kurukshetra, he gave the celestial message of Shrimad Bhagwad Gita to Arjuna.

Kadian informed that now Haryana has got the platinum category award by Energy and Environment Foundation.

Union Jal Shakti Minister, Gajendra Shekhawat gave this honour to Haryana during a virtual programme organized on Sunday.

He said that Haryana has got this award due to its effective implementation of excellent schemes of water management. This honour will motivate the department to do better and work towards fulfilling the dream of Chief Minister regarding water management, he added.

According to the government’s notification, the key objective of setting up the task force is to enforce The Haryana Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan Act 2015 effectively by collecting information regarding cattle smuggling and slaughtering from public and to take prompt action on such illegal activities after special inputs received from the public.

The task force at state and district level will also play a key role in rehabilitating stray cattle of the state in gaushalas, nandishalas and gau abhyaranyas.

The district SCPF will submit a monthly report of action taken during the month directly to the chairman of the Gau Seva Aayog through the Deputy Commissioner of the district concerned.

Haryana Gau Seva Aayog was also constituted for proper implementation of laws with respect to of smuggling and slaughter of innocuous cows.

In a first in India, hydrogen-powered trains are expected to start from Haryanas Jind district by the end of this year and first hydrogen plant of the country is being set up in the district, said Shobhan Chaudhry, general manager (GM) of Northern RAILWAY, who visited the spot on Thursday.
Indias first hydrogen plant is being set up near the railway junction in Jind district. The plant development has entered the final phase and hydrogen will be produced from water.

The first prototype of the hydrogen train is expected to commence in the fiscal of 2023-2024 between Jind-Sonipat section of Northern Railway. They said now trains were being run by diesel and electricity and this project would be new for the country.

The Hydrogen fuel-based train of eight bogies will be Environment friendly. Higher officials visited the site to take stock for setting up the hydrogen pump at Jind and to set up the required .

Presiding over the review meeting of the Health Card Scheme here, Khattar said that soil health cards should be issued to farmers after checking every acre of agricultural land in the state so that farmers avoid unnecessary use of Fertilizers and add nutrients to the land as required. This will not only increase the fertility of the land, but it will also be beneficial for the farmers, he said.

He said that the Soil fertility map of every village would also be prepared, which would also facilitate giving advice to the farmers. The Chief Minister directed the officers of the Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture Department to prepare a year-long calendar in which dates are fixed for making farmers aware through soil testing, Kisan Sabha and exhibition etc. He also directed to complete the work of soil testing of 75 lakh acres of agricultural land in the state in three years.

A sum of Rs 111.58 crore has been approved for compensatory afforestation (CA), additional compensatory afforestation (ACA) and penal compensatory afforestation (PCA) to be carried out over an area of 1,197.73 hectares during the year 2023-24.

It was highlighted at the meeting that the Shivalik Hill Region in the northern part and the Aravalli hills in the southern part of the state are highly prone to runoff and erosion due to their hilly and undulating topography. During the rainy season, rainwater drains rapidly from these areas, leading to soil erosion and loss of topsoil. Therefore, soil conservation measures, including the construction of earthen Dams, masonry structures, cement concrete structures, check dams, silt detention dams and crate wire structures, were required. A substantial budget of Rs 20 crore has been allocated for this purpose.

Further, Rs 10 crore has been approved for habitat improvement and Infrastructure development in Protected Areas under the wildlife management plan for 2023-24. The state manages two national parks, seven wildlife sanctuaries, two conservation reserves and five community reserves through the Wildlife Wing.