HARYANA

The state’s Health Department had last year conducted two serological surveys in Haryana, first in August 2020 and second in October 2020. The sero-survey analyses the blood samples of selected individuals for anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies. It helps in determining a rough estimate of how much Population has been exposed to the virus.

Haryana, which is currently under lockdown restrictions, has been witnessing decline in fresh COVID-19 cases and deaths since mid-May.

With the fatality rate of 1.11 percent, Haryana has seen 8383 COVID-19 related deaths till June 1. The cumulative case tally stands at 757868 while around 733205 have recovered from the virus with the state recording recovering rate of 96.75 percent.

State Health minister Anil Vij said black fungus has now been declared a notified disease inHaryana.

The decision came after over 40 cases of black fungus were found in Covid patients inGurugram, Karnal, Fatehabad and other districts of the state.

PGIMS-Rohtak and a tertiary care hospital of Gurugram were the first ones to report cases of black fungus in Haryana.

As many as 11 districts of Haryana, including Gurugram and Faridabad, have been identified as air quality sensitive districts for being Air Pollution hotspots around the year.

The two districts, along with Palwal, Panipat, Sonepat, Bhiwani, Hisar, Jhajjar, Rohtak, Sirsa and Nuh, feature in the list of 37 districts in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) compiled by the (NGT).

The districts, including nine from Delhi and 13 from Uttar Pradesh, include Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddha Nagar (Noida). The list was compiled based on the report of an expert committee that the NGT had appointed in 2021. The panel identified the districts through satellite observations on the basis of high PM2.5 concentration.

Calling for an improvement in plying of buses, raising their frequency on high-density routes and more dedicated corridors for last-mile connectivity, theRail India Technical and Economic Service(RITES) in its final draft report has identified 66km road Network in theTricityfor upgradation by 2027

A maximum of 40km stretch falls in Mohali district of Punjab, 24km inHaryana’s Panchkula and the remaining 2 km in Chandigarh.

The report has called for strengthening the road network by 2027 under a short-term measure and all authorities should focus on it. With the development of the road network, more people will get better connectivity with Metro too planned,” sources said.

The RITES has also identified five to six very high-frequency bus corridors in the Tricity and asked the authorities to ensure around 800 to 1,000 buses on these routes by 2052 to provide quick last-mile connectivity. “The high-frequency routes should have maximum buses, as areas along them are either already developed or at developing stage. Buses will play a most vital role on such routes in the future,” said the RITES in its report.

Haryana Government has constituted an internal grievance redressal committee for employees belonging to Scheduled Caste community in the state.

In pursuance of recommendation of National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC), an internal grievance redressal committee for employees belonging to SC community is constituted for Haryana Civil Secretariat.

The committee shall examine the complaints from SC employees in service matters including non-maintenance of reservation roster and not filling up of reserved vacancies, discrimination in promotion, seniority, ACP, non-appointment on compassionate grounds, downgrading of APARs or ACRs, discrimination in transfer or posting, denial of pensionary benefits and disbursement of pay arrears etc.

Perturbed over the lowest gender ratio across the state in 2022, the https://exam.pscnotes.com/Health“>Health authorities have taken all 87 ultrasound centres registered in the district on its radar. It has started screening their records pertaining to ultrasound tests performed on pregnant Women at the centres last year with the twin aim of finding out violations, if any, made by them and discouraging them from disclosing the gender of the unborn baby.

Rewari recorded 883 as the sex ratio at birth (SRB) last year, which is the lowest in the past four years. Rewari witnessed the birth of 903 girls against 1000 boys in 2021, while the SRB was 913 in 2020, 918 in 2019 and 915 in 2018. The district had registered 802 as SRB in 2014.

A 57-point rise in the sex-ratio at birth in last five years (females per 1,000 males) has been recorded in Haryana, as per the National Family Health Survey-5 (2020-2021).

The sex ratio witnessed an increase from 876 (NFHS-4 2015-16) to 926 in NFHS-5 while the sex ratio at birth recorded an increase from 836 to 893 (2020-21). The Chief Minister Manohar Lal has congratulated the officers involved in this campaign and said that the Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao campaign will continue and the State will soon reach the 950 mark in gender ratio at birth (girl child).

The regular monitoring of the campaign, under the Leadership of Chief Minister combined with the conscientious and diligent efforts of the Deputy Commissioners has been rewarding. Such a significant improvement in changing the mindset towards girl-child in a Society is rarely seen, he said.

Elaborating, he further said that the gender ratio at birth (girl child) of Haryana was 871 in December, 2014 as per the Civil Registration System (CRS) which has now improved to 922 in December, 2020.

Notably, Haryana, which had the worst sex ratio among states in the 2011 census, was chosen by Prime Minister to launch the nationwide ambitious Beti Bachao Beti Padhao in 2015. The state had the lowest child sex ratio of 834 compared to the national Average of 919 (according to Census Of India 2011).

The Haryana government on Saturday said it has decided to give a 50 per cent rebate in value added tax (VAT) to industrial units in the state that will replace diesel Generator sets required to meet their energy requirement with natural gas.

This scheme will be applicable to entire industries, including Micro, Small and Medium enterprises (MSMEs) and will be effective for two years from the date of its notification.

Notably, the use of diesel-powered generator sets is banned in the National Capital Region. Now the industries that will meet their energy requirement from CNG, PNG will get a 50 per cent exemption in VAT, it said.

Similarly, the committee also approved giving a subsidy of Rs 164.66 crore per year to electric vehicle manufacturing companies under various heads, under Haryana Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy 2022.

The chief minister was apprised the EV policy aims to protect the Environment, reduce carbon footprint, make the state an EV manufacturing hub, ensure Skill development in EV field, encourage uptake of EV vehicles, and encourage research and development in EV technology.