HARYANA

At the second convocation ceremony of Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences, the Chancellor of the University and Governor, Haryana, Bandaru Dattatraya and Chief Minister, Manohar Lal Khattar presented degrees to the students of various courses related to health sciences.

Addressing the gathering in Rohtak, Khattar said that about Rs. 16 thousand crore is being spent by the government on medical, Education and research etc. A provision has been made by the government for the welfare of the Society that the students who have obtained doctor’s degrees from government medical colleges should give some part of their earnings for social causes. He called upon the students who took the degree of doctors to come forward for social service. Serve the people through government service and take care of the people of the state.

Khattar said that a joint course of bio engineering and medical engineering will be started soon in the state. He said that the kidney transplant will start soon in Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences. He said it is being ensured that every district must have a medical college and at present, 13 medical colleges are functioning in the state and 11 medical colleges are either under construction or have been announced. He said that after the year 2014, medical seats have been increased significantly in the state and in the next five years, the number of these seats will be increased to 3,000.

He said that as per the norms of World Health Organization, there is a requirement of one doctor per 1000 Population. Thus, at present there is a need of 28 thousand doctors in the state, while there are about 7 thousand government doctors in the state. About 50 percent of doctors, including government and private doctors, are providing Services to the people in the state. The is making continuous efforts to meet the shortage of doctors.

Khattar also announced that a statue of Milkha Singh would be installed at the Gate of the Sports ground. The playground is constructed in about four acres at Gappu Wala Bagh site in ward 16 in Karnal.

On the occasion, the Chief Minister also announced plans to build a community centre and library on the first floor on about two and a half acres of land adjoining it and said that a shed would be built at one corner of the sports ground, in which yoga classes would be held.

Apart from this, an astroturf field for hockey would be built at a cost of about Rs.8 crore, Khattar said.

On this occasion the Chief Minister inaugurated four projects, including mini sports stadium, beautification of Atal Park, strengthening of various roads and construction work on footpaths, constructed at a cost of about Rs 8.22 crore in Karnal.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first digital bank unit online from Delhi.

The digital branch will be paperless and have only three employees who will help or guide customers in availing all type of facilities, including cash deposits and loan disbursement. Addressing the function through the online mode, Modi said the digitisation of the Banking Services heralded not only a new era in the sector, this would make the services more easy and hurdle free for both banks and customers. Claiming that the country had been on the fast track of development in the sector, it would make the banking service more hassle free.

The Chief Minister said that manual surveys which are conducted at regular intervals are very time consuming, costly and require more manpower. However, now with the help of drones, illegal encroachments can also be controlled along with detection of expansion of area without planning.

The information can also be collected for image analysis. In this way, the drone system will resolve many problems, he said.

Khattar said that this is a unique beginning in the State. Besides using it in the Revenue Department, it can be used in the Departments of Mining, Forest, Traffic, Town and Country Planning, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture etc.

The state has decided to implement the online transfer policy for posts having cadre strength of 80 or more. In a letter issued by the General Administration Department, all administrative secretaries and heads of departments have been asked to execute the policy soon if it had been notified.

The also signed an MoU with Walmart Vriddhi and Haqdarshak in the presence of Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala. With the help of E-Commerce companies such as Walmart, the state government will be able to showcase the products of traditional weavers and handicraftsmen at the international level.

TheHaryanagovernment is formulating a film and entertainment policy for the convenience of filmmakers and artists. Apart from this, about 60-70 acres of land inPinjorehave been earmarked for Film City. Efforts will be made to promote the culture of Haryana andPunjabin particular through theFilm City.

Khattar said Punjab-Haryana used to be a single province earlier, later Haryana came into existence in 1966. At that time it seemed that Punjab was very developed and everyone wondered about how Haryana would be able to move forward on the path of development. However, with the hard work of the people of Haryana, it had gone far ahead of Punjab in terms of development, he said.

To promote the process of gettingnatural Oxygen from trees, plantations will be done in the name of Panchavati in every village of Haryana. Besides this, agro Forestry will also be promoted on vacant land so that Panchayat income in rural areas can also increase.

Besides this, the Chief Minister also inaugurated and laid foundation stones of three other projects at the same programme, these include laying foundation stone of Nagar Van Panchkula, starting Panchavati plantation at 134 places of Kurukshetra pilgrimage and Pran Vayu Devta Pension Scheme.

Khattar said that the Mera Pani-Meri Virasat scheme was started by the to save water for future generations. He said that for this, it was decided that an incentive amount of Rs.7000 per acre would be given to the farmers adopting crop diversification in place of paddy and now the government has decided that any farmer who opts for agro forestry and Plants 400 trees on his land, then an amount of Rs.10,000 would be given to such farmers for a period of three years instead of Rs. 7000.

He said, ‘Pranvayu Devta Pension’ scheme will be unique and the first of its kind in India. As a matter of honour, the State Government has taken an initiative to honour all those trees which are of the age of 75 years and above and have served humanity throughout their life by producing oxygen, reducing pollution, providing shade and so on. Such trees will be identified throughout the state and these will be looked after by involving local people in this scheme.

TheHaryanacabinet, in a meeting chaired by CM Manohar Lal Khattar, gave its nod to new excise policy for the financial year 2023-24 with a target to collect Rs 400 crore for Environment and animal welfare Gau Seva. There has also been a nominal increase in rates of excise duty on country liquor and IMFL.

As an environmentally friendly measure, it aims to discontinue the use of liquor PET bottles after February 29, 2024, and has reduced the number of liquor vends, as compared to last year

The government is now aiming to cross a benchmark of Rs 10,000 crore with the successful implementation of the excise policy-2022-23. In the last two years, the recovered 100% of the license fee at which retail vends were allotted.

The limit of maximum number of retail liquor vends in the state has been reduced from 2,600 to 2,500 in 2022-23 and from 2,500 to 2,400 in 2023-24.

In the current policy, the retail liquor vend zone size has also been decreased from four to two in a bid to allow more participants to apply for liquor shop licence through e-tender.

An Insurance relief scheme was announced by the Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar under which a financial relief of Rs 2 lakh would be provided to the BPL families of those who had lost their lives due to COVID-19 or due to any other untoward incident.

Under this scheme, the families do not have to pay any insurance premium, as the premium of Rs 330 per person will be paid or reimbursed by the .

Around 2593 such BPL patients who were undergoing treatment during this time period have been identified by the Health department and it was found that 24 people have lost their lives due to COVID. The verification of the rest of the beneficiaries is going on and the financial relief to the pending families would soon be given once their verification is done.