HARYANA

The Haryana Government will construct a dam and a reservoir on 77 acres in Himachal Pradesh near Yamunanagar districts Adi Badri area, which is situated on the border of Himachal Pradesh.

The Haryana Government will spend Rs 215.33 crore on this project and a memorandum of understanding (MoU) will be signed by Haryana and Himachal Pradesh Governments in the presence of Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar and Himachal CM Jai Ram Thakur in Panchkula on January 21.

The dam will get 224 hectare metre water in the rains from Som river, which starts from Himachal Pradesh and falls into the Yamuna river in Yamunanagar. Out of the 224 hectare metre water, 62 hectare metre water will be given to Himachal Pradesh and the rest (162) hectare metre water will be used for the Saraswati river in Haryana throughout the year.

Haryana Government on Thursday said that ever sinceState Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has been sworn in as the Chief Minister in 2014, several schemes have been implemented to promote industrial exports. Consequently, not only Haryana got a new identity but the State has taken a quantum leap in its export graph. As per the official figures in 2013-14, Haryana exported goods worth Rs 68,032 crore, while increasing this by four-fold to touch exporting goods worth Rs. 2,17,222 crore.

The government official spokesperson said that because of the radical changes brought about by the Chief Minister to promote the (EODB), Haryana is now third in the country and first in North India in terms of EODB, whereas in the year 2014 it was at 14th position. Obviously because Economic Development has also remained the utmost priority of the Chief Minister and during his consecutive tenure, he had always laid emphasis onboosting Industrial Growth in Haryana so as to provide livelihoodto the people of the State along with making Haryana a preferred global Investment destination.

Guided by the principle of ‘Minimum Government and Maximum Governance, the State Government has created an ecosystem of Ease of Doing Business (EODB) which not only matches global standards but is even more investment-friendly and has also given a powerful administrative structure in the Industrial Sector of the state, he added.

He further said that to propel the State to the next level of growth trajectory, the Enterprise Promotion Policy (EPP) in the year 2015 was launched. The policy is aligned with the ‘ Make in India‘ Digital India‘ and ‘Skilling India’ campaigns of the Government of India and offers best-in-class incentives to attract investments in the state.

Furthermore, going a step ahead to create a more conducive Environment for the industries in the state, for the first time Haryana has formulated The Haryana Enterprises and EMPLOYMENT Policy (HEEP), 2020, after considering suggestions from the industrialists of the state.

Notably, the government took another lead in introducing one of its kind initiatives when it launched the Programme to Accelerate Development for MSME Advancement (PADMA) programme to strengthen the economic condition of every region.

Under PADMA ‘clusters’ of small and medium industries are being established at the block level. Clusters have been formed in all 143 blocks of the state, even in the first phase the work of developing 40 clusters has started. Brands namely Har Amrit’ for fertilizer, ‘Har Agro’ for cattle feed, ‘Haryana Fresh’ for mineral water, ‘Ikshu’ for sugar are being promoted to give special recognition to the products of the state.

Five special policies have been implemented for Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Food Processing, textiles, Warehousing–Logistics, retail, pharmaceutical and MSME sectors. For settlement of government dues and other disputes, help has been provided to industrialists through Vivaadon ka Samadhan.

Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State for Science and Technology, inaugurated the world’s first and most advanced MRI facility at the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) in Manesar, Haryana.

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Dr. Singh stated that with this facility, India will be able to explore new horizons in human neuroscience with a unique and powerful 3T MRI platform.
He stated that Siemens’ Prisma MRI scanner is being used by a number of worldwide efforts, including the United States’ brain initiative and the European Human Brain Project.
This is being utilised to create human cohort data for patients with common brain and mental Health illnesses such as Parkinson’s, Alziemer’s , anxiety, and depression.
The Minister emphasised the importance of the Centre’s single-subject world-class research, which encourages translational research with the goal of discovering rational medicines and cures for brain illnesses.

The directorate of school Education has clarified that 183 schools across the state will now be merged and function as ‘single unit schools’, seeking to allay concerns about the shortage of teachers created by a general transfer drive.
More than 37,000 teachers across the state have been shifted under a mega government drive, attracting criticism that the move has left several schools with only a few or no teachers.

The clarification that the government issued about the shortage of teachers mentioned that the senior secondary schools would function as ‘master schools’ and the lower institutes would operate as its campuses. It said that the teachers had been transferred to these master schools.

For instance, the Government Girls Middle School (lower campus) in Garhi Harsaru has been merged with the senior secondary school (master school) in the same village. The teachers of both these schools will now be deemed as staff of the master school.

Roughly eight of 10 people in Haryana, or 76.3% of the states Population, have antibodies against SARS CoV2 the virus that causes Covid-19 the third sero survey, which also had the largest sample size, has found. Gurgaon, the district that has reported the most cases so far in Haryana, has slightly better seropositivity with 78.3% of the population having antibodies.

According to data released on Monday, seropositivity is 78% in urban areas and 75% in rural areas of Haryana. Kurukshetra, with 85%, has the highest seropositivity and Faridabad (64.2%) the lowest in the state. In Faridabad, however, the survey will be carried out again. As 14% of the samples were found to be inconclusive, we are planning to carry out another sero survey. All the samples were processed at a lab in Panchkula to ensure that the samples are uniformly treated, said Health minister Anil Vij.

A sero survey involves testing a group of individuals to monitor trends in the prevalence of an infectious disease. Due to the high proportion of asymptomatic or mild infections, data available only for lab-confirmed cases does not capture the real spread of Covid in the population. Hence, serological detection of specific antibodies against SARS CoV-2 can better estimate the true number of infections.

The state transport department has launched aroad safetycentre inFaridabadto generate awareness and coordinate efforts on reducing roadaccidents. The initiative has been started in collaboration with automobile giantMarutiSuzuki India Limited (MSIL).
According to the transport department, the Model Road Safety Knowledge Centre will help impart knowledge of basic road etiquettes and safe driving habits to new licence seekers and the general public. Officials said they were hopeful that the move will not only help the government in educating motorists, but also implement evidence-based strategies to reduce instances of road fatalities in the state.

Besides launching the road safety knowledge centre, the government also released Haryana Driving Manual and Sadak Sansar Book. According to the officials, this book is divided into chapters like Safe and Responsible Driving, Renewal of Driving Licence, Rules of the Road, Traffic Signs and Road Signs.

The Punjab Government said it will be left with no option but to allow excess waters of the Sutlej and Beas to flow into Pakistan through the Hussainiwala barrage if Haryana and Rajasthan do not absorb additional water into their canal system to help ease the flood situation in the state.

The Sutlej and Beas flow into Punjab from HP and converge in Kapurthala district. The Sutlej, thereafter enters Pakistan in Ferozepur through the Hussainiwala barrage that is controlled by the Punjab Government.

Besides this, to make the scheme successful, drone mapping will also be done, Khattar said while presiding over the review meeting of the plantation campaign and geo-tagging scheme of the Forest and Wildlife Department here.

A target has been set to plant three crore saplings in the State this year.

The Chief Minister directed the officers to work closely in this regard and formulate such a plan which ensures survival of maximum planted saplings.