HARYANA

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi held a video conference today to open the Infosys Foundation Vishram Sadan at the National Cancer Institute on the Aiims Jhajjar campus in New Delhi.

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The Prime Minister, speaking at the event, said that today is a historic day since India has reached the milestone of 100 crore vaccine doses.

The country now possesses a powerful protective barrier of 100 crore vaccine doses to combat the greatest pandemic in 100 years. And stressed that this achievement belongs to India and its people.

The Prime Minister appreciated all of the country’s vaccine manufacturers, as well as workers involved in vaccine transportation and Health-care experts involved in vaccine development.

Director General, Industries and Commerce Department, Dr Saket Kumar shared this information at the inauguration of the two-day ‘Vanijya Utsav’ being organized in Gurugram.

He said that District Level Export Promotion Committee (DLEPC) has been constituted in every district of the state to facilitate exports. Similarly, a Trade Promotion Committee has been constituted at the state-level to review all types of trade related issues like , agricultural exports and service exports, he said.

Sharing more information about the facilities and incentives being given to entrepreneurs and exporters in Haryana through a presentation, Dr Saket said that Haryana is a fast growing economy with an export value of Rs 1,74,572 crore in the year 2020-21.

Value chain studies have been completed on six important crops in the state that is Kinnow, tomato, potato, strawberry, capsicum and ginger, said an official spokesman.

He said that this report was presented in the General Body meeting of Small Farmer Agri-Business Consortium Haryana (SFACH) chaired by Additional Chief Secretary, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Farmers Welfare department, Sumita Misra. During the study various gaps were noticed at production, harvest, post-harvest and Marketing stage.

The state has taken major strides in development through handholding support of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPO) by collectivization of farmers, through Crop Cluster-Based approach, the spokesman added. On this occasion, Dr. Arjun Singh Saini, Director General Horticulture Department, Dr. Hardeep Singh, Director General Agriculture Department, Dr. Ranbir Singh, Joint Director Horticulture and senior Officers of horticulture department and other line departments were present.

Home and Ayush Minister Anil Vij said around 1,000 yogashalas have been opened in Haryana, and efforts are being made to open one in every village.

While addressing people on the occasion of International Day at War Heroes Memorial Stadium in Ambala Cantonment, Vij said, The Haryana

Government has been making sincere efforts to promote yoga. It was decided to open 6,500 yogashalas in the state, of which around 1,000 have been opened, for which yoga assistants have also been recruited. Efforts are being made to take yoga to every household, making it a part of our lives.

Yoga is an ancient science and our sages have done a lot of research on this. The Chief Minister has asked to make yoga compulsory in the school curriculum. A mobile application, Yog Manas, was launched to promote yoga Education, he added.

The plan should be extended to the village level with the participation of people and public representatives so that future generations do not have to face the problem of shortage of water, he said.

He directed the officers to formulate plans on the basis of different areas of the state and prepare water availability index of each village, so that people can get information regarding availability of water in future.

Haryana chief secretarySanjeev Kaushalsaid the policy will be applicable only to property parcels up to 100 sq yards per beneficiary/per land parcel for all such properties which had been leased or rented before June 1, 2001.

Kaushal said the policy would not be applicable on land of departments of tourism, transport and Health and family welfare. It will also not be applicable on shamlat lands,panchayat lands, panchayat samiti and zila parishad lands.

The National Cadet Corps (NCC) would now be considered as a General Elective Credit Course (GECC) in the graduation courses being run in the educational institutes or colleges of Haryana. A decision has been taken in this regard in response to the proposal mooted by the Directorate General National Cadet Corps, New Delhi.

NCC Syllabus for ‘B’ and ‘C’ cert is designed as per choice based credit system of National Education Policy 2020 which grants 24 credit points covering six semesters out of which a student can accrue four credit points covering first two semesters and ten credits in the third and fourth semesters and similarly 10 credits in the fifth and sixth semesters.

The move is in consonance with the National Education Policy 2020 where students can select their choice of subjects rather than being confined to only those being offered by the institutions. This makes the Learning holistic and skill oriented. On the successful completion of the course, students are awarded points which will enable them to qualify for their respective degrees.

In a bid to curb rampant cow vigilantism, the Gurugram administration has become first district to form a special cow protection task force.

The move comes in the wake of the recent brutal murders of two residents of Bharatpur, Rajasthan, Nasir and Junaid, for their alleged involvement in cow smuggling. A group of cow vigilantes had allegedly abducted the duo. Their bodies were found burnt in a vehicle in Bhiwani.

As per the norms, the task force at the state level will have six members, while those at the district level will have 11 members. Chairing the meeting of the task force, DC Nishant Kumar Yadav announced that a complete ban would be enforced on unauthorised actions such as raids on and confinement of persons involved in cow smuggling. People will have to inform the Police in case of any illegal activity concerning cow progeny. No one can chase, bully, thrash or confine anybody in the name of cow protection, Yadav said.

The task force will prevent illegal transportation and slaughtering of cow progeny, but also collect information about such activities, take legal action, rescue and rehabilitate stray cattle, and also provide assistance for arranging the land for cow shelters.

The Delhi-Mumbai expressway will transform one of the most backward districts of Nuh into an industrial hub, chief ministerManohar Lal Khattarsaid while virtually participating in the inauguration of the speedway by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A total of 129km of the expressway passes throughHaryana, which includes much of Nuh. On Sunday morning, the Prime Minister inaugurated the Sohna-Dausa stretch of the expressway in Rajasthan’s Dausa. Earlier in the day, Khattar, and Union ministers Nitin Gadkari and Rao Inderjit Singh inspected the traffic management control tower near Sohna. While Gadkari left for Dausa to join the PM for the inauguration, Khattar, Rao Inderjit and deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala participated in the event virtually from the Hilalpur told plaza.

Haryanachief ministerManohar Lal Khattarsaid that this years budget will be prepared and presented while keeping in mind the vision of modern Haryana and the promises made by the government.Khattarholds the charge of finance ministry and he is holding pre-budget meetings with the various stake holders to give final shape to the budget document which shall be presented next month.

CM Khattar said this during his interaction with the leaders andBJPworkers atHaryana Bhawan, New Delhi, on Saturday. The chief minister said that the is committed for the welfare of all sectors and sections, including Education, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and farmers welfare.

The chief minister said that before preparing the budget, suggestions were invited from people of different sectors. Pre-Budget discussions have also been held with some major departments.