Thursday, June 7, 2018

Haryana to celebrate anniversaries of Valmiki, Raidas, Kabir and Ambedkar

CHANDIGARH, JUNE 7
The Haryana Government has decided to officially celebrate the birth anniversaries of Maharishi Valmiki, Sant Shiromani Ravidas, Sant Kabir and Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar in the state. Kabir Jayanti will be celebrated from June 25 to July 1, 2018
 at district level.
         This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes, Mr. Krishan Kumar Bedi, at a press conference, here today.
          Briefing media persons about the issues discussed at a meeting of ministers chaired by the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, Mr Bedi said procurement of sunflower would begin on June 15 for which all preparations had been done.
          The Central Government has allowed procurement of 40 per cent of sunflower produced in the state. According to estimates, 60,000 metric tonnes of sunflower is likely to be produced in Haryana.
          Mr Bedi said discussions were held at the meeting to reach maximum number of people through ‘Sampark se Samadhaan’ programme initiated on the completion of four years of the BJP Government at the Centre. Ministers, MPs and MLAs would take this programme to the booth level. The programme which began on May 26 would continue till June 11.
          In reply to a question regarding continuous protests by the employees against the government, Mr Bedi said the state government was working for the welfare of employees. The benefit of recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission has been given from Jan 1, 2016 to the employees in government departments, boards and corporations. Under the Congress government, the benefit of recommendations of the Fifth Pay Commission took years to reach the people.
     Mr Bedi said the issues of safai karamcharis of municipal corporations had been solved. The state government has also decided to give weekly off to police officials and daily wages of Home Guards had been increased from Rs 300 to Rs 572 equivalent to police officials.
SANSKRIT AS ELECTIVE SUBJECT: The Haryana Government has decided to again introduce Sanskrit as an elective subject in various government colleges of the state  and  B.Sc.  (Medical) in Government College Chhachhrauli, from the academic year 2018-19.
          Giving this information, an official  spokesperson said here today that earlier the Higher Education Department had stopped Sanskrit classes in such colleges as had fewer than 20 students. But now even with 10 students Sanskrit classes would start.
         In addition, the government has decided to convert Government College for Girls, Mandi Hariya, into Co-education College, and boys would also be admitted from the current academic session. Similarly, the name of Government College for Girls, Bilaspur (Yamunanagar), has been changed to Government College, Bilaspur (Yamunanagar), and Government College for Girls, Chamu Kalan (Kurukshetra), has been renamed as Government College, Chamu Kalan (Kurukshetra).

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