Jan 2020

HARYANA New decisions by Haryana Government   Nod to changing the nomenclature of the Haryana Film Cell to Haryana Film Promotion Board and its high-powered committee to governing council. It would include changing the designation of Satish Kaushik as its chairman under the provision of the Haryana Film Policy Any woman or girl victim who has faced acid attack … Read more

HARYANA Two Day NH review concluded in Haryana Shri Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport & Highways and MSME along with General (Retd.) V. K. Singh, Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways conducted a review meeting on 23-24 January at Manesar near Gurugram, Haryana. The Ministers reviewed the projects of all National Highway development. They reviewed … Read more

Indian Navy launches ‘Operation Vanilla’ Indian Navy launches ‘Operation Vanilla’ to help cyclone-hit Madagascar INS Airavat has been deployed for ‘Operation Vanilla’ The ship is carrying five pallets each of victualing, clothing and naval stores along with three pallets of medicines   India successfully test-fires K-4 missile On January 19, 2020, India successfully test-fired 3,500 … Read more

HARYANA Each Haryana district to get old age home The Haryana government has decided to set up old age homes having a capacity of 150 persons in every district of the state by 2024. The government had earlier set a deadline of 2028 to establish these homes, but decided to complete the project by 2024 after the Punjab and Haryana high … Read more

HARYANA 17 Ambala villages to get potable water   These villagers will soon start getting clean potable water in their homes. An ambitious project costing Rs 42.21 crore has been prepared for the purpose under which every household in the villages falling under the Mullana block will get drinking water through taps.   The project … Read more

HARYANA Haryana: Expect many firsts in budget session The Haryana assembly’s upcoming budget session is likely to be longer than previous ones and could be a witness to many firsts. Now, each MLA can have a maximum of two questions every day. This means, one question in starred and one in unstarred category. In all, 20 starred and … Read more

HARYANA Haryana Human Rights Commission seeks health status report Taking suo motu cognisance of a newspaper report on the plight of patients and their attendants in government hospitals in several districts in the State, the Haryana Human Rights Commission has sought a report from the Direction General, Health Services and Director International Coronavirus- Emergency in … Read more

HARYANA Antyodaya Saral’ project fetches state Gold Award The Haryana Government has received the ‘Gold Award’ from the Government of India for timely implementation of citizen-centric services under the e-governance project of Antyodaya Saral. The government now aims to further re-engineer processes to achieve the aim of cashless, paperless, and faceless service delivery in line … Read more

HARYANA Haryana budget session to start from February 17: Cabinet The budget session of Haryana assembly would commence from February 17. In addition, the cabinet also decided to implement a new policy for mountaineers from Haryana who scale top 10 highest mountain peaks of the world, including Mt Everest. Such mountaineers will get a cash … Read more

HARYANA In new year, Haryana govt raises social security pension   In the first meeting of the state cabinet in the new year, the government opened the coffers to raise the social security pensions given to 28 lakh beneficiaries of various categories, and also offered relief to the kin of government employees. Besides this, the … Read more