HARYANA

HaryanaAgriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and farmers’ welfare minister Jai Prakash Dalal said the had started planning to establish a separate department to connect farmers of each village of the state with natural farming. Dalal said a separate budget was also expected for natural farming during the ongoing budget session of the Haryana state legislative assembly.

Dalal was in Kurukshetra University (KU) campus, where he held a press conference organised by the state agriculture department and said to discuss the topic of natural farming, a state-level workshop was being organised on the KU campus on March 8.

Haryanachief minister,Manohar Lal Khattarsaid on Sunday that the is taking effective steps to make the state’s gaushalas self-reliant. He said that a grant of Rs 30 crore is given every year for fodder of cattle.
The CM was addressing on the occasion of the anniversary celebration ofShri Jagat Guru Brahmanand Gaushalain PanipatsKuranavillage.
Kurana village will be developed under Mahagram Yojana.

The chief minister approved several demands for Kurana village. He approved the demand for widening four roads of the village to five and a half meters. With the Population of the village being more than 10,000, the CM also announced to give the benefit of Mahagram Yojana to Kurana village, along with an assistance of Rs 21 lakh for Shri Jagat Guru Brahmanand Gaushala, Kurana.

Apart from this, Member of Parliament, Sanjay Bhatia and Rajya Sabha member,Krishan Lal Panwarannounced Rs 11 lakh each and MP Arvind Sharma announced Rs. 2.50 lakh for the Gaushala.

Haryana Vidhan Sabha is set to go completely paperless. The Speaker Gian Chand Gupta said that preparations are being made to ensure that the upcoming budget session of Haryana Assembly is completely paperless.

The Speaker held a meeting of the Apex Committee constituted for the purpose. Several MLAs and senior officers were present during the meeting.

Gupta said that the process of making Haryana Legislative Assembly paperless has been accelerated. The details regarding setting up of state-of-the-art equipment to make the House an e-Vidhan Sabha were discussed. A 2-day workshop to impart training on digitization to the staff of the Legislative Assembly Secretariat has also started on Thursday. MLAs of the state will also undergo training to understand the new system.

The Haryana government has prepared an action plan to control pollution in all 11 major drains that discharge treated or untreated effluent into the Yamuna river, the state assembly has been informed.

”Due to the control of pollution in these drains, the polluted water will not fall into the Yamuna river, from which the Agra and Gurugram canals emerge,” Transport Minister Mool Chand Sharma said. He said this in response to a regarding polluted water in Agra and Gurugram canals.

The minister said it is being regularly reviewed at the level of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and the chief secretary. He said the action plan involves construction, upgradation of the existing sewage treatment Plants, common effluent treatment plants, laying of sewage and interception of sewage from unapproved areas, regular monitoring of water polluting industries by Haryana State Pollution Control Board and taking strict legal actions against such industries.

He further said due to the implementation of this action plan, the water quality of Agra canal has improved in the last few years. Sharma informed that the Gurugram and Agra canals originate from Yamuna river at Okhla barrage in the Delhi region. Agra Canal reaches the border of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh near Karman village. The Gurugram Canal is the major source of Irrigation water in Mewat and a large Population is adversely affected due to pollution caused by Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.

In these fairs, such families will be associated with self-EMPLOYMENT, the Chief Minister said while presiding over the State Working Committee meeting of BJP OBC Morcha in Panchkula.

He said that the work of income verification is being done by collecting data through Parivar Pehchan Patra Yojana. For this, the work of setting up self-employment through 40 schemes of six departments is at the final stage. To increase the income of the poor family, financial assistance will be provided from the banks through the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana, he said.

Khattar said that all the office bearers of OBC Morcha should prepare a list of ten such families in their surrounding areas and send it to the so that the goal of increasing the income of poor families can be achieved.

The Chief Minister said that the OBC class is skilled in many fields and such skilled workers are needed not only in the country but abroad as well. Craftsmen play a pivotal role in boosting the economy. Every year Shilpkar Mela is organized in Surajkund to promote the skills of craftsmen. In future, this fair will be organized twice a year so that the craftsmen can showcase their skills in a better manner, he added.

Khattar further said that it is for the first time in the country that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has formed the Ministry of Skills to promote skill-based Education and training. On these lines, Haryana Government has also established Shri Vishwakarma Skill University in Palwal so as to sharpen such skills in the State. Along with this, Skill Employment Corporation has also been constituted in the state, he said.

Haryana Resources“>Water Resources Authority (HWRA) chairperson Keshni Anand Arora held a meeting with Superintending Engineers, Irrigation-and-water”>Irrigation and water Resources Department (I&WRD), to review the progress of the Districts Water Resources Plan (DWRP) 2022-25 that is being prepared by all 22 districts as per the HWRA Act.

A three-year action plan was discussed in order to reduce the water demand and supply gap by 45 per cent in three years, which is 10 per cent in the first year, 15 per cent in the second year, and 20 per cent in the third year in water depleted as well as waterlogged areas.

The Chief Minister while speaking during a workshop organized by Swarna Jayanti Haryana Institute for Fiscal Management (SJHIFM) said that since 2015. through the SDG Index development priorities have been set for every state under which they are given 17 goals to achieve desired targets. Haryana is swiftly walking on this pace and all the parameters fixed for achieving SDG goals 2030 are being implemented in a phased manner in the State, he said.

On this occasion, he also released Haryana Goals Index 2020-21 and Haryana Provisional SDG District Index 2021 and congratulated the Finance Department and SJHIFM for their efforts in this regard. He further encouraged the Institute and all link departments to work in close coordination for the release of the subsequent edition as well.

Haryana has one of the lowest areas under certified but it is ranked fifth in the country in exporting organic products.

The state has 5,303 hectares under certified organic farming with 4,903 hectares under National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) and 400 hectares under Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) certification.

A mere 4,339 farmers are engaged in growing organic Cereals and Millets, medicinal Plants, wheat, basmati rice, fodder, fruits and vegetables, oilseeds, processed food, pulses, spices, condiments, sugar, tea and tuber products.

The state exported 38,986 MT worth Rs 348.77 crore in 2020-21. The facts come to Light in a reply of the Ministry of Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Farmers Welfare on a question of land under organic farming in the country in the Rajya Sabha on July 30. Punjab has a total of 7,021 hectares under certified organic farming involving 12,861 farmers. It exported 326.03 MT of organic foods worth Rs 2.73 crore and was ranked 19th in the country in 2020-21. Only Andaman and Nicobar (1,360 hectares), Ladakh (817.85 hectares), Lakshadweep (3,595.51 hectares), Puducherry (183.65 hectares), Daman and Diu (1,100 hectares) and Chandigarh (1,300 hectares) have a lower area under organic farming than Punjab and Haryana.

The neighbouring Himachal Pradesh has 29,554 hectares under certified organic farming involving 60,891 farmers. Besides cereals and millets, dry fruits, fruits and vegetables, medicinal plant products, pulses, spices, sugar, tea and tuber products, it is also cultivating apple, basmati rice, coriander and rajmah.

The state exported a mere 7.88 MT of products worth Rs 1.62 crore in 2020-21. Jammu and Kashmir has 31,179.82 hectares under organic farming involving 24,772 farmers. It exported 607.59 MT worth Rs 10.77 crore. Madhya Pradesh has the maximum area under certified organic farming in the country. It has 11.96 lakh hectares under cultivation and 6.26 lakh farmers are engaged in it.

It exported 5 lakh MT of products earning Rs 2,683.58 crore in 2020-21, the highest in the country. It is followed by Maharashtra (Rs 913.74 crore), Gujarat (Rs 723.20 crore) and Kerala (Rs 355.34 crore). Haryana comes at fifth rank in exports. Experts say that this is because the traders in the state bought organic products from neighbouring states and exported them.