The Foreign Cooperation Department (FCD) of the and the Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) have taken a significant step towards bolstering bilateral economic collaboration by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) today.
This landmark agreement aims to facilitate investment opportunities between the two entities, ultimately driving sustainable economic Growth and development between the two regions.
The Centre has given an in-principle approval to the Haryana Governments proposal to develop a cultural centre in Kurukshetra and agreed to increase the scale of the Surajkund International Crafts Mela, said Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar.
The Tourism Ministry also agreed to expand the scale and grandeur of the Surajkund crafts mela. The has been given permission to prepare proposals for projects based on the PPP model.
Khattar apprised Reddy that the state government had submitted a detailed proposal to the ministry for the proposed state-of-the-art museum based on Lord Krishna, Gita and Mahabharata in Jyotisar, Kurukshetra.
The proposed projects include a museum on the Indian classical music in Pinjore, a museum at the palace of Raja Nahar Singh palace in Ballabgarh and a heritage circuit in Mahendragarh.
The states Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister JP Dalal said that there will be a business of Rs 40,000-50,000 crore rupees annually. Along with this, lakhs of people will also get EMPLOYMENT, he added.
Despite repeated deliberations by stakeholders, export credit has failed to take off in Haryana. Against the national target of 2% of total advances, the disbursement in Haryana was just 0.05% in the last fiscal. The total advances in the state were Rs 3,25,641 crore.
The share of export credit is on downward trend for the past few years. In 2019-20, the advances to export sector was 0.05% of the total advances while it was 0.10% in 2018-19.
The timely availability of export credit is crucial for exports and any decline in credit offtake takes a toll on exports, especially hitting the MSME sector that always faces fund crunch.
Export finance plays a crucial role in enabling exporters to execute their orders efficiently.
While the pre-shipment export finance is required as WORKING CAPITAL for accomplishing timely production, packing and shipment of the orders, the post-shipment finance helps in sustaining exporters operations while awaiting payments from foreign buyers.
Dattatraya said that thalassemia is a genetic disorder which needs frequent blood transfusions. For this, help can be obtained from blood donors in the Society, he said while urging d the youth to donate blood by participating in blood donation camps organized from time to time so that children suffering from these genetic diseases like thalassemia and haemophilia can be treated on time so as to save their lives.
The Chief Minister inaugurated four projects digitally. These included project E Lakshyvahini worth more than Rs 1.18 crore in collaboration with Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd Foundation, through which about 10,000 students from five districts including Ambala, Jhajjar, Jind, Kaithal and Yamunanagar will be provided training through Common Service Centres Training for more than 100 competitive exams.
In the second project under CSR, 70 smart classrooms will be set up in government schools in district Gurugram and Mewat in collaboration with the RITES Ltd, at a cost of about Rs 1, 31, 60,000 crore.
Under another project, 330 similar smart classrooms will be set up in 165 other government schools in the state in collaboration with the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited. The Power Grid will spend more than Rs 7,80,90,000 on this project, under which smart classrooms will be set up in 10 districts including Gurugram in Haryana.
These include 80 smart classrooms in Gurugram district, 60 in Faridabad district, 20 each in Hisar, Karnal, Ambala, Panchkula and Yamunanagar districts, and 30 in each in Panipat, Rohtak and Sonipat districts.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday announced to increase the honorariums of sarpanches from Rs 3,000 to Rs 5,000; and panches from Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,600 by linking it with dearness allowance (DA) on the lines of government employees. Besides, the sarpanches (village heads) will now be able to record their comments in the Annual Confidential Report (ACR) of the Gram Sachiv.
Khattar also announced that the limit of development works on quotation basis of sarpanches has also been increased from Rs two lakh to Rs five lakh.
Calling upon the sarpanches to understand their responsibility towards the people as public representatives and get the development works done in villages in a transparent manner, Khattar said that any hassle in the e-tendering process will be removed. The Government has strengthened the hands of sarpanches with e-tendering, which will bring transparency in development works and the works will be completed in a time-bound manner, he added.
With a blueprint of taking Haryana swiftly on the progressive and transformational path, along with uplifting the last mile citizen, Budget 2023-24 will be Growth oriented, said Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar.
The Budget Session of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha will commence from February 20 and Khattar, who also holds the finance portfolio, will present the Budget on February 23.
The Chief Minister said that as the year 2023 is being celebrated as Antyodaya Arogya Varsh, hence in the budget 2023-24, utmost priority will be given to uplifting those at the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid. Poor and needy have the first right on government. Radical IT reforms have been brought to ensure that they are the first to get the benefits of all public welfare schemes, said Khattar. He said that no scheme would be discontinued due to a paucity of funds.
The British Deputy High Commission, Chandigarh and the Foreign Cooperation Department, Haryana have signed a Framework of Engagement(FoE) to enhance the bilateral cooperation between the UK and Haryana.
The FoE was signed at the residence of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and was signed by Caroline Rowett, British Deputy High Commissioner, Chandigarh and Yogender Chaudhary, Principal Secretary, Foreign Cooperation Department, Haryana.
The FoE covers broad areas of work that will help build the collaboration between the UK and Haryana. On the occasion, Rowett said They are pleased to put into action the ideas discussed by the Chief Minister in March 2021.
The Chief Minister said that the grant amount given to poor families for the repair of houses would also be made available soon through an online process so that such families could get immediate benefits in case their house is damaged due to any reason.
Such families whose annual income in Parivar Pehchan Patra would be up to Rs 1.80 lakh would automatically be provided BPL cards.
Along with this, for those people who do not have an age certificate, a medical board will be formed at the district level.
The is working to empower the poorest of the Society financially by delivering benefits of Antyodaya family welfare schemes, Khattar added.
With the Antyodaya Mission of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay, we are aiming to remove social and economic inequalities so that a simple and comfortable life can be provided to every person in society, he added.