HARYANA

Nearly 3,300 farmers in the district were found ineligible under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana (PMKSNY) in the district, and were asked to refund the financial aid of around Rs 3.82 crore Just over Rs 38 lakh have been recovered so far.

As per the data procured from the Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department, as many as 3,296 ineligible farmers, majority of whom were payee, were detected, but only 386 farmers have refunded Rs 38,32,000 so far.

The income tax-payee farmers and those who get pension over Rs 10,000 are not eligible to get the financial aid under the scheme that aims at providing Rs 6,000 per annum in three installments for agricultural works. Only those farmers, having land in their name in the revenue records are eligible to receive the aid.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that many development projects are underway, out of which some are about to be completed soon. These development works will attract tourists from across the country and abroad towards Haryana.

The Chief Minister said that the birthplace of Gita, Kurukshetra is a confluence of faith and tourism. Recently, the ‘Virat Swaroop’ statue of Lord Krishna was unveiled in the holy pilgrimage Jyotisar. Shortly a 3D projection mapping show will also be set up at this place. Its work is almost completed. The show will be inaugurated in the coming days. The Chief Minister said that episodes related to Mahabharata and Shrimad Bhagavad Gita will be shown. For this, cutting-edge technology like Augmented Reality, Holographic Images, Robotics and Drones etc. will be used.

Khattar said that a Light and Sound show has been shown at Jyotisar shrine since 2019. Apart from this, the government has also built a Parikrama path of Jyotisar pilgrimage. Lighting work has also been done on the shrine and a wall has also been constructed to protect the ancient banyan tree. The Chief Minister said that Kurukshetra is the centre of spirituality, the government is working diligently on its development.

The Chief Minister said that a project worth Rs. 52 crores related to Adi Badri shrine located in Yamunanagar has been sent to the Tourism Department of the Central Government. In the next few days, the Central Government team will reach Adi Badri for evaluation. Apart from this, a project has been made for the restoration of the fort in Lohgarh, the capital of Bahadur Sikhs. Work is under process at this sight, he added.

The scheme is aimed at giving an impetus to tourism in the state after the impact of Covid-19 on the tourism sector. The Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar is scheduled to launch the Home Stay Scheme 2021 at Tikkar Taal, Panchkula on September 29.

The scheme lays down the eligibility criteria for home stays, incentives for them, registration procedure, inspection and Police verification, Marketing and promotion, responsibility of proprietor among other parameters.

Under the scheme, any house located within the limit of any type of municipal body is not eligible for registration and consequential subsidy under the scheme. Existing OYO or Airbnb, or B&B proprietors will also be not eligible.

The Department of Tourism will publish on its website the list of all approved home stay units. Brochures, leaflets, amongst other publicity materials will also be developed and disseminated at suitable public places in this regard.

As per the scheme, any proprietor can register a maximum four fully owned accommodation rooms in the scheme. All rooms must be in the same house and all registered rooms should be available for letting out. At least one of the proprietors/owner must be physically staying in the same house.

The policy launched by the on Thursday aims to give an opportunity to students to secure firsthand and practical work experience and become aware of government functioning besides contributing to the policy formulation.

The interns will be required to sign a confidentiality agreement with the State Government prior to the commencement of the internship. Under this, the interns shall be required to maintain confidentiality of all the documents or reports and any other information received during the internship period and shall not reveal to any person or organization any information regarding Department, work or policy.

According to the internship policy, academic institutions shall sponsor students for internship which shall range from two months to one year. The interns will be working with the Joint Secretaries, Directors or any other relevant officials in the Government Department or District Administration. They will primarily work in areas like Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, data management and analysis, economics, Education, energy, Governance, Foreign Trade, Health, Women and child development,Industry, Environment, Social Media among other sectors.

The young academic talent should be provided with the opportunity to become aware of government functioning and develop understanding of policy measures undertaken by the Departments to bring about social and Economic Development.

In a significant development, theHaryanagovernment has established an Enforcement Bureau (Haryana State Enforcement Bureau) to monitor and initiate criminal actions into cases of illegal mining, encroachments on government sites, illegal construction,Motor Vehicles Actchallans and illicit liquor trade. According to information, to start with the move, the would be converting all eight Police stations set up for the water and electricity theft cases into the enforcement bureau (EB police station).

This would deal with all the existing cases registered in various police stations across the state. Notably, Bhiwani, Mahendergarh, Nuh,Panchkula, Yamunanagar districts are the areas infested with incidence of illegal mining. Moreover, land disputes related to encroachment of government land and violation of building bylaws have been reported from across the state. The Town and Country Planning Department too had been registering cases for violation of sale purchase of land or construction on land falling under controlled areas, without taking the NOC from department.

All Primary Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture (PACS) of the state will be digitised now. Under this, 307 PACS of the state will be fully computerised by August 31, 2022.

This information was given in a meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal regarding the status of digitisation in primary agricultural cooperatives.

After being computerised, the training of the employees of the PACS must be done for smooth operation.

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar launched the portal. He also launched Jan Sahayak-Aapka Sahayak a mobile platform ensuring anywhere-anytime-anybody delivery of Government to Citizen (G2C) and Business to Citizen (B2C) Services through one access point.

Under this scheme, if someone has constructed more than the floor or area of the allotted building of the , then he will have to deposit an additional amount that is Rs 1,000 as per the additional constructed area.

If the applicant is not allottee or subletee as per rules of the Municipality but fulfils all the eligibility criteria of the policy, then they will also have to pay a lump sum regular fee of Rs 30,000 in addition to the amount and tax to be paid as mentioned in the policy.

Notably, Haryana Government has framed a policy under which the tenant will have to pay less than the present collector rate to get the ownership right.

The first unit of North Indias first nuclear power plant, situated in Gorakhpur village in Fatehabad district of Haryana, is likely to commence operations in June 2028.

This information was given at a meeting presided over by Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal regarding the coordination of officials of the Haryana Government and Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidyut Pariyojana here

Providing an update on the projects progress, project director, GHAVP, Niranjan Kumar Mittal, said 74 per cent of the ground improvement work had been completed. Additionally, essential equipment such as end shields and steam generators for the first unit, along with critical reactor components, had been received at the site.

TheHaryana governmenthas sanctioned a total of Rs 9.40cr for all the districts to meet their expenditure on containment measures ofCovid-19, includingquarantine,sample collectionand screening, besides procurement of essential equipment. While Rs 7cr has been allocated for 14 districts, including Gurgaon, that are seeing the maximum Covid caseload, Rs 2cr will be for the remaining eight districts.

Haryanas financial commissioner (revenue and Disaster Management) Sanjeev Kaushal said the has been released from the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) and given to the deputy commissioners of the 22 districts.

The government claims that the fund has been released on the caseload of the districts Some 14 districts have got the maximum budgetary allocation of Rs 7 crore.

The State (SEC) bagged the CSI SIG e-Governance award 2022 for developing integrated suite of applications for ensuring smooth local bodies Elections. It was developed and implemented by the NIC Haryana during the general elections of Urban Local Bodies in 2022.

A spokesperson said that the award was presented by the Computer Society of India and received by Dr Inder Jeet, Secretary, State Election Commission, Haryana, along with Deepak Bansal, State Informatics Officer, NIC Haryana and other officials of the SEC and NIC Haryana at a function organised by the CSI SIG on March 25 at Delhi Technological University, New Delhi.

The ICT project, which received award was developed by NIC Haryana, under the guidance of Dhanpat Singh, State Election Commissioner, Haryana.