HED releases EDUSAT Broadcast Schedule

CHANDIGARH, MAY 30 

The Haryana Education Department has released EDUSAT Broadcast Schedule and time table for Secondary channel for the month June 2019.

          While giving this information here today, a spokesman of the department said that a letter has been sent to all the district education officers of the state, district elementary education officer and all Junior Engineers of EDUSAT Project by Directorate of School Education.

          He said that the soft copy of the programme is being distributed for the EDUSAT Broadcast Schedule and timetable in all the government schools (primary, middle and senior secondary) of the district, for the month of June 2019.

          The spokesperson said that the students can watch EDUSAT Broadcast JEE (Main), Physics on secondary channel 1, Chemistry on middle channel 3 and the Mathematics at Primary Channel-2 between 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm. He said that more information could be obtained from the website http://www.schooleducationharyana.gov.in.

APPLICATIONS INVITED FOR STATE AWARDS: Chandigarh, May 30 – Haryana Government will confer state award on individuals or organizations providing outstanding services to prevent alcohol and drug addiction. For this, the State Government has invited the applications for the year 2019-20 and the individuals or organisations will have to submit their applications in their concerned District Social Welfare Office latest by June 14, 2019 up to 4 p.m.

          While stating this here today, a spokesman of the Social Justice and Empowerment Department said that for this, the first prize will be of Rs 50,000, second of Rs 30,000 and third prize Rs 20,000.

          Giving information about the different categories of this award, he said that the categories included the Best Drug De-addiction Centre providing services for the prevention of alcohol and drug abuse, the Best Panchayat Raj Institution and Best Municipalities working for prevention of consumption of alcohol and intoxicants and the best schools and colleges working for spreading awareness regarding the ill effects of alcohol and intoxicants and their prevention.

          The spokesman said that people launching the Best Disease Prevention Campaign and the Best Awareness Campaign besides professionals and non-professionals who have achieved something extraordinary, will be honoured with the State Award.

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CM administers oath of office and secrecyto HERE member Naresh Sardana

CHANDIGARH, MAY 29 

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal administered the ‘oath of office and secrecy’ to newly appointed Member of Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC), Mr Naresh Sardana here today.

          Mr Manohar Lal congratulated Mr Sardana, his family members and well wishers for him being appointed as member of HERC.

          It was informed that applications for filling up the post of Member, HERC were invited through advertisement in Newspaper in the month of January. The State Government had constituted a Selection Committee under the Chairmanship of Justice Mr Permod Kohli (Retd.) with Haryana Chief Secretary Mr D.S Dhesi and Chairperson, Central Electricity Authority Mr Prakash S. Mhaske as members of the selection committee. The appointment is based on the recommendations made by the Selection Committee in its meeting held on May 5, 2019.

          The HERC was established in 1998 under Haryana Electricity Reform Act, 1998. It has completed 20 years of existence, regulating power sector performance and reforms.

          Among those present on this occasion included Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mr V. Umashankar, Advocate General Mr Baldev Raj Mahajan, Chairman-cum-Managing Director Power Utilities Mr Shatrujeet Singh Kapoor, Chairman HERC Mr Jagjeet Singh, Member HERC Mr Parvinder Singh and other senior officers of the power utilities.

GRANTING ADVANCE TO DCs: TO  Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal has announced that the State Government will grant an advance up to Rs one crore to each Deputy Commissioner of the state. This advance would be utilised to meet out the emergent requirement of payment of wages, honorarium etc to the employees engaged on contract basis under centrally and state sponsored schemes in case the departments do not receive funds or grants on time from the central or state government for one reason or other.

          The funds would be released from Contingency Funds of the state.

 NASEEM AHMED NOMINATED: Haryana Vidhan Sabha Speaker, Mr Kanwar Pal has nominated Mr Naseem Ahmed, MLA to serve on the Committee on Local Bodies and Panchayati Raj Institutions as Special Invitee with effect from May 28,2019 for the remaining period of the year 2019-20.

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Effective monitoring of defect liability of contractors.

CHANDIGARH, MAY 29

Haryana Public Works (Building and Roads) Minister Rao Narbir Singh directed the officers to ensure that the monitoring of defect liability of contractors is conducted in a proper manner and said that those contractors who give quotations much less than the fixed rate, samples of their construction material for the quality control should be taken at regular intervals. In case, the samples failed to meet the required parameters, work should not be allotted to such contracts and the tenders be invited afresh.

          Rao Narbir Singh was presiding over a review meeting of senior officers of the Department here today.

          He directed that meeting of Executive Engineers and Superintending Engineer of all 11 circles of the Department should be convened at regular intervals. Besides, instructions should be given to them for effective monitoring of defect liability. It was decided that next meeting of Executive Engineers and Superintending Engineers would be held in Sector-1, Panchkula at 11 am on June 4, 2019. Thereafter, the second meeting would be held at Gurugram on June 20, 2019.

          The Minister directed that road projects whether of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) or State Highways, the work on which is being delayed due to the want of No Objection Certificate (NOC) from Forest or Environment Department, such cases should be taken up with the officers of the concerned department on priority basis. The Chief Minister Mr Manohar Lal has also taken a stringent view over delay in clearance of such files.

          Additional Chief Secretary, Public Works (Building and Roads) Mr Alok Nigam, Engineer-in-Chief Mr Rakesh Manocha and Technical Advisor Mr Vishal Seth were also present in the meeting.

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Online leave submission and approval system in Human Resource Management System

CHANDIGARH, MAY 29

The Haryana Government has decided to implement online leave submission and approval system in Human Resource Management System (HRMS) to facilitate its employees. For this, the state government employees would have to apply online on employee portal http://intrahry.gov.in for leave application.

          While giving this information, an official spokesman said that all departments have entered data of their employees on HRMS, which included personal information of each employee like Service Book, Annual Confidential Reports, promotion, leave, transfer details and others. Now, it has been decided to implement online Leave submission and approval system through Intra Gr. Portal, with effect from April 1, 2019.

          He said that employee can submit any type of leave application online on the employee portal. Reporting officer can approve or reject the leave application on the same portal.

          He said that the system also has facilities of cancellation of leave and submission of joining report administration or establishment users can also submit the leave application on the behalf of employee through HRMS portal if employee is not able to submit his or her leave online. The detail procedure can be seen on “guidelines for filling up the Online Leave Management” on http://intrahry.gov.in.

          He said that Mr Sunil Bahal, Programmer in the office of Treasuries and Accounts Department and Mr Yashpal, Technical Director in the office of NIC, Haryana has been designated as State Nodal Officers for implementation of Online Leave Management. In case of any difficulty, the department could contact them on email: treasuries@hry.nic.in and Yashpal@nic.in.

DA ENHANCED FROM 9 TO 12 PER CENT: Haryana Government has decided to enhance Dearness Allowance payable to government employees from the existing rate of 9 per cent to 12 per cent of the basic pay, with effect from January 1, 2019.

          Giving this information, a spokesman of Finance Department said that the installment of Dearness Allowance payable under these orders would be paid in cash to all State government employees with salary for the month of June, 2019 to be paid in July, 2019.

          He said that the payment of arrears of enhanced Dearness Allowance for the month from January, 2019 to May, 2019 would be made in the month of August, 2019.

          A letter to this effect has been issued today by the Finance Department to all the Heads of Department, Commissioners of Divisions, Deputy Commissioners and Sub Divisional Officers (Civil), the Registrar General, Punjab and Haryana High Court, Chandigarh.

The Haryana Government has also  decided to revise the Dearness Relief given to the Pensioners, Family Pensioners of the state government, from 9 per cent to 12 per cent, with effect from January 1, 2019.

Giving this information today, a spokesman of Finance Department said that a letter to this effect has been sent to all the Heads of Departments, Commissioners of Divisions, Deputy Commissioners and Sub Divisional Officers (Civil) and the Registrar, General Punjab and Haryana High Court, Chandigarh.

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Six projects sanctioned under esearch and Development scheme

CHANDIGARH, MAY 28

Six Research Projects have been sanctioned in Haryana with a budget of Rs one crore having upper time limit of three years under Research and Development scheme during the year 2018-19 with a view to improve the socio-economic standard of the general masses and solve their day to day problems with new inventions.

          While stating this here today, the Principal Secretary, Haryana Science and Technology Department, Dr. Ashok Khemka said that keeping in view the importance of Research in the field of Science and Technology, the budget under the Research and Development scheme would be further increased so that quality research could be carried out for the upliftment of the socio economic standard of the society.

          He said that under this scheme, grant up to Rs. 20 lakh is sanctioned to the Scientists or Professors of Educational or Research Institute for carrying out Research and Development Project in the field of Science and Technology.

          The six Research Projects sanctioned during 2018-19 included treatment of cancer, development of hybrid perovskite based energy harvesters for small area devices, waste water remediation, early cancer detection technique, detection of procine Viral Pathogenes Using Next Generation Sequencing Technology (NGS) and production of bioethanol from Parthenium: Parthenium hysterophorus which is also known as congress grass is one of the world's most devastating weeds.

          Research project on treatment of cancer is sanctioned to Dr. Ranjana Aggarwal, Department of Chemistry, Kurukshetra University (KU), Kurukshetra. According to a recent report in World's leading medical journal, 'The Lancet', nearly one million new cases of cancer are being diagnosed in India every year. National statistical data of October 2017 indicates that Haryana stands at 39.6 per cent with maximum share in overall death due to cancer in the country probably due to rapid industrialization, urbanization, use of fertilizers, and contamination of soil, water and air with heavy metals. The current chemotherapeutics such as paclitaxel, doxorubicin, vincristine are losing their significance because of development of drug resistance and also being not able to distinguish cancer cell from normal cells thereby causing adverse effects. The research project entitled `Multicomponent Domino approach towards regioselective synthesis of functionalized fused azaheterocycles as DNA-targeting agents' aims to develop small nitrogen containing organic molecules as drugs to treat cancer. It is expected that understanding the interaction behaviour of azahetreocycles with DNA as intercalators or groove binders or as DNA cleavers will lead to anticancer agents which will selectively recognize base pairs, sequences, and conformational features of nucleic acids.

          Research project on development of hybrid perovskite based energy harvesters for small area devices is sanctioned to Dr. Manish Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, KU, Kurukshetra. In this work, the inorganic-organic hybrid perovskite based thin films for solar cell applications will be synthesized. The advantages of these solar cells over traditional Si-solar cells include their synthesis from solutions at low processing temperatures, high efficiencies (over 23 per cent), low production cost and potential for large scale manufacturing techniques such as roll-to-roll printing. Like organic solar cells they can be put on flexible substrates and can be lightweight and semi-transparent. Perovskite solar cells can be the future of solar energy if the thermal stability is improved by a suitable doping.

          Research project on waste water remediation is sanctioned to Dr. Ashok Kumar Sharma, Department of Materials and Nano Technology, Deen Bandhu Chhotu Ram University, Sonipat. Sonipat is one of the densely populated districts of the state having a variety of industries which includes leather, rubber, plastic, metals, dyes and chemicals oriented works. The coloured effluents contain many harmful and carcinogenic chemicals and need treatment before discharging. The chemicals are harmful for human as well as for flora and fauna. This polluted water may cause allergic problems, dermatitis, kidney problems, cancer and may lead to derogatory effect in living biota. The water resources are already under stress due to over exploitation and pollution from various industries making it worse. Most of the population in industrial areas also include people migrated from nearby states in search of work who can't afford expensive measures available for access to drinkable water. So, most of the population specifically in industrial locality is facing severe scarcity of drinkable water. Keeping in the view these challenges the project entitled- "Functionalized Carbon Nanocomposite for Waste Water Remediation" has been designed. The main objective of the project will be to develop sophisticated carbon based nanocomposites for rapid, economical and effective removal of pollutant from water. The project shall focus on the removal of contaminants like dyes and heavy metals and will be carried out through advanced sonocatalytic and photocatalytic adsorption techniques.

          Research project on early cancer detection technique is sanctioned to Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Department of Bio-Chemistry, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh. In Haryana, due to rapid industrialization and poor sanitation, the cancer rate is increasing rapidly. Haryana records highest number of cancer cases in India which is like 39 per cent in 2018. Breast cancer in women and lung cancer in males is the leading cause of death in Haryana population according to the Indian Council of medical research (ICMR). Cancer patients often lose out the early diagnosis and subsequent treatment due to a limited number of public hospitals and expensive treatment. Currently, a defined role for screening exists in some cancer types, but each screening test has limitations, and improved early screening methods are utmost needed. His project entitled "Comprehensive miRNA/circulating tumor DNA profiling at different stages of cancer patients as per WHO and healthy controls as novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in biological samples (blood, saliva, urine, and feces) for early detection of cancer in Haryana population." is aimed to improve screening methods and make cancer detection at a very early stage (stage-I and stage-II) by using miRNA. As early detection greatly increase the chances for successful treatment and a decrease in mortality. Project Investigator will be trying to design a microchip that will be coated with different miRNA. A single drop of blood will be sufficient to diagnose cancer, which will justify the efforts and costs of screening. Unfortunately, many cancers still lack effective screening recommendations, or in some cases, the benefits from screening are marginal when weighed against the potential for harm. So this project will help in early detection of cancers and help in decreasing the mortality rate in Haryana.

          Research project on detection of procine Viral Pathogenes Using Next Generation Sequencing Technology (NGS) is sanctioned to Dr. Sushila Maan, Animal Biotechnology, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar. Pig husbandry plays a crucial role in providing nutritional security and gainful employment to the weaker sections of society in our country. Among the meat animals, pigs are the most prolific animals with shorter generation interval, high fecundity, and high feed conversion efficiency and relatively require less space for housing. However, the pig rearing is still an unorganized venture that requires science and technology driven support to make it a vibrant enterprise to increase production, to uplift the economic status of the farmer and to help alleviate poverty. Sometimes, various dreaded diseases in the pigs cause devastating loss to country's economy. Nucleic acid sequencing technologies have progressed rapidly in recent years and continue to advance or be improved. Although Sanger method is still commonly used for sequencing specific genes, NGS technologies have been increasingly used in veterinary diagnostics with a good turnaround time and cost-saving. The proposed project aims to use NGS technologies in swine diagnostic medicine, for determining the whole genome sequences of viruses, identifying mixed infections in clinical samples, discovering novel or previously unrecognized agents, and for various future applications requiring characterization of viral pathogens like tracing the origin and movement of outbreaks (molecular epidemiology studies), identification of virulence associated genes and vaccine development studies. NGS can be a choice if Veterinarians have undiagnosed cases and would like to do further investigations in porcine diseases.

          Research project on production of bioethanol from Parthenium is sanctioned to Dr. Neeraj Kumar, Department of Microbiology, KU, Kurukshetra. Parthenium hysterophorus is also known as congress grass is one of the world's most devastating weeds. It was imported accidentally in India as a contaminant along with a variety of wheat and since then it has spread to all states of India. The reports have indicated that in India Parthenium hysterophorus has spread over 35 million hectares area in 2018. Several characteristics of this annual shrub such as adaptability to wide range of habitats and climatic conditions, high fecundity, the high regenerative potential, resistance to herbivory and allelopathic effect on other plants; make it a prolific weed. It particularly dominates wastelands, irrigation canals, roadsides, railways track sides, coal mines, growing residential sectors and is also invading crops. It shows serious ill effects on the health of human beings causing dermatitis, hay fever, bronchitis and asthma, and also on grazing cattle causing skin dermatitis, intestinal ulceration and tainting of milk with the parthenin toxin present naturally in all parts of the plant. The management of this dangerous weed is a serious concern all over the world. Many chemical, physical and biological methods are known for its control. But no single method is effective enough to eradicate it completely. Under this project the biomass of this weed will be utilized for bioethanol production. The utilization of Parthenium hysterophorus biomass for bioethanol production will not only offer a constructive approach for the management of this weed but also a potent solution to the problems of energy crisis as well as the environmental pollution due to traditionally used fossil fuels.

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JC Biose University's steps to encourage girls to pursue higher education

CHANDIGARH, MAY 28 

In a major initiative to encourage the girl students to pursue higher education, J.C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad has decided to offer one supernumerary seat in UGC approved courses for Single Girl Child from the academic session 2019-20.

          While giving information in this regard, Vice Chancellor Prof. Dinesh Kumar said that the State Government has taken a series of steps under ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ programme. In line with this programme, the University has decided to create one supernumerary seat for Single Girl Child. Accordingly, one supernumerary seat has been created in UGC approved courses being run in the University, except AICTE approved programmes that is B.Tech., M.Tech., MBA and MCA.

          The admission on supernumerary seat would be made on the basis of the merit of entrance test conducted by University or marks of qualifying examination. The eligible single girl child claiming for the Supernumerary seat would be required to submit an affidavit on stamp paper duly attested by first Class Magistrate, to be obtained from the parents of the girl children declaring therein that the girl child is only a single child of their family not having any brother or sister. If the supernumerary seat in a course remains vacant due to non availability of suitable candidate, it would not be offered to candidate of any other category. The supernumerary seat would be offered to only single girl child of Haryana State. In case of more than one claimant to the seat under this category, the admissions would be made as per the merit list of entrance test or marks of the qualifying examination.

          Vice Chancellor said that during the last four years, the University has started 15 new courses and increased the number of seats. In the year 2015, the number of seats in all programmes were 756 which have been increased to 1657 in the current academic session. 

          The University has invited online applications for its various UG and PG programs for the academic session commencing from July, 2019. The last date for filling online application form for all courses, except M.Tech, will be June 10 2019. However, the last date for submission of online application form for all M.Tech programs is June 30, 2019.

          The new courses which have been started from new academics session are include B.Tech in Electronics and Computers with an intake of 60 seats, M.Tech in Power Electronics and Devices with an intake of 18 seats, B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication with an intake of 40 seats and M.A. in English with an intake of 35 seats. It may be noted that the University has already been offering M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication with an intake of 30 seats.

          As per the admission schedule, the University has invited online applications for admission to all courses of M.Tech., M.Sc. in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Environment Science, MBA, MCA, MCA (LEET), B.Sc. (Hon.) in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, B.Sc. (Animation and Multimedia), B.A. (JMC) and M.A. (JMC) and M.A (English) for the session 2018-19.

          It is worth mentioning here that the admission to all courses of B.Tech and B.Tech. (LEET) of the University will be done by Haryana State Technical Education Society on the basis of candidates JEE Main 2019 and qualifying examination scores.

          The admission brochure with all information related to eligibility criteria, number of seats and schedule for entrance test can be seen and downloaded from University website www.ymcaust.ac.in.

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3978 farmers benefited under “Bhavantar Bharpaai Yojna”.

CHANDIGARH, MAY 24 

In Haryana, as many as 3978 farmers have so far been benefited with a sum of Rs 9.52 crore under “Bhavantar Bharpaai Yojna”.

          This was informed during the second meeting of State Level Monitoring Committee chaired by Chief Secretary Mr. D.S. Dhesi at Chandigarh today.

          Mr Dhesi said that strenuous efforts are being made to bring more area under Bhavantar Bharpaai Yojna and to benefit maximum number of farmers under it.

          He said that this scheme has been successfully implemented in the state for the last two years. Four crops, namely Potato, Cauliflower, Tomato and Onion are included under this Yojna. He said the main objective of this Yojna is to encourage farmers to diversify the production of their crops.

          It was informed that budget provision of Rs two crore has been made under the scheme during the year 2019-20. In the first phase of this Yojna from January, 2018 to June 15, 2018, a total number of 4435 farmers have been registered, similarly, in the second phase from October, 2018 to till date, 19790 farmers have been registered for availing benefit of this scheme.

          It was informed that till date, under this Yojna, 3978 farmers have been given a benefit of Rs 9.52 crore. Under “Bhavantar Bharpaai Yojna”, nine Mandi Zones have been divided in the state so as to assess the price of horticultural crops. Ambala, Karnal, Rohtak, Gurugram, Hisar, Bhiwani and Faridabad are included in these Zones.

          He said that, this Yojna has been started for farmers producing horticultural crops. Under this, in case a farmer gets lower price for his produce than the price fixed by the government, then the State government will compensate for the loss of the farmer. Besides, assisting the farmers to diversify their crops, this Yojna also helps in reducing their loss by fixing a Minimum Support Price.

          Additional Chief Secretary, Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department, Mrs Navraj Sandhu, Director General, Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department, Mr Ajit Balaji Joshi and other senior officials were also present in this meeting.

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Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana projects forwarded to Centre

CHANDIGARH, MAY 28 

In Haryana, the State Level Sanctioning Committee of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana has approved projects of Rs 552.73 crore for forwarded the same to Government of India for sanctioning. The projects have been approved to provide water in every field, increase crop production, development of watershed and realize the vision of Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi to double the income of farmers by 2022.

          This approval was given during the meeting of State Level Sanctioning Committee for Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana, which was presided over by Chief Secretary, Mr D.S. Dhesi here today.

          It was informed in the meeting that under Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana, Haryana has sought funds from Central Government in 2019-20 for state irrigation schemes which included Rs 186.19 crore for irrigation department, Rs 205 crore for canal area development authority, Rs 50 crore for district rural development agency, Rs 60.14 crore for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare and Rs 51.40 crore for horticulture.

          Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana is being implemented in the State from 2015. Under the scheme, agriculture department has been declared nodal department for schemes of various departments. The Central Government has 60 per cent share in the implementation of the scheme,  whereas the State Government has 40 per cent share. According to the directions of Government of India, all kinds of subsidies are being directly transferred in the accounts of farmers through Direct Benefit Transfer under Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana. Under the scheme, small dams are created for sprinkler irrigation, drip irrigation and water conservation.

          Those present included Additional Chief Secretary, Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department, Mrs Navraj Sandhu, Principal Secretary, Development and Panchayats Department, Mr Sudhir Rajpal, Director General, Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Mr Ajit Balaji Joshi and other senior officers.

350 CRORE RELEASED TO COOPERATIVE SUGAR MILLS:  Haryana Government has released Rs. 350 crore to the cooperative sugar mills to provide major relief to sugarcane farmers. This amount will be used by Cooperative Sugarmills to pay the arrears of sugarcane for the crushing season 2018-19.

          While giving this information, Minister of State for Co-operation, Mr Manish Grover said that out of total Rs 350 crore released for crushing season 2018-19, Rs 39 crore has been released to Cooperative Sugar Mills, Panipat, Rs 39.50 crore to Cooperative Sugar Mills, Rohtak, Rs 26.50 crore to Cooperative Sugar Mills, Karnal, Rs 35.50 crore to Cooperative Sugar Mills, Sonipat, Rs 38 crore to Cooperative Sugar Mills, Shahabad and Rs 28 crore to Cooperative Sugar Mills, Jind. Similarly, Rs 30.50 crore to Cooperative Sugar Mills, Palwal, Rs 48 crore to Cooperative Sugar Mills, Meham, Rs 36 crore to Cooperative Sugar Mills, Kaithal and Rs 29 crore to Cooperative Sugar Mills, Gohana.

          He said that during the crushing season 2018-19, 355.17 lakh quintals of cane was purchased for Rs 1,206.22 crore. Till date, payments of Rs 1,098.38 crore had been made out of Rs 350 crore released by the government. He said that sugarmills would make the payment of outstanding dues in the next coming week.

          He said that the interest of farmers is priority of the state government and it would ensure that no sugarcane farmer face any kind of difficulty.

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Written examination for ‘Super-100’ programme on June 10

CHANDIGARH, MAY 27 

Haryana School Education Department will conduct a written examination for ‘Super-100’ programme on June 10, 2019. Selected students in examination will be provided free of cost training for NEET, IIT and JEE by the State Government. The last date of registration students for this programme is May 31, 2019.

          While giving this information, a spokesman of the department said that the expenses of boarding and lodging would also be borne by the government. He said that all the District Education Officers have been directed by the Directorate of School Education to appoint the district science expert and district maths expert in their respective districts as the nodal officer of the Super-100 programme. The Directorate has also directed to establish contact with Parents, School Heads and students who secured more than 80 per cent marks in Class X to encourage them to come for Super-100 programme.

MANDATORY TRAINING: Haryana Higher Education Department will impart mandatory training for Centralized Online Admission to all Principals, Nodal Officers of Online Admissions and Computer instructor (one other faculty member) of all colleges in the state. The training will be imparted from May 30 to June 6, 2019 at Division Level.  

          Giving this information, a spokesman of Higher Education Department said that training workshop would be conducted for all government and government aided colleges of Hisar, Sirsa, Fatehabad, Bhiwani and Charkhi Dadri districts of Hisar Division on May 30, 2019. Similarly, training workshop for Ambala Division would be conducted in all government and government aided colleges of Ambala, Yamunanagar, Panipat, Kaithal, Panchkula, Karnal and Kurukshetra districts on May 31, 2019.

          He said that on June 3, 2019, training workshop for Rohtak Division would be conducted in all government colleges of Rohtak, Jhajjar, Jind, Sonipat and Rewari districts and on June 4, training workshop would be conducted in all government aided colleges of these districts. Similarly,  for Gurugram Division, training workshop would be conducted in all government colleges of Gurugram, Mahendergarh, Faridabad, Mewat and Palwal districts on June 5, 2019 and in all government colleges of these districts on June 6, 2019.

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Haryana Government enhances Dearness Allowance

CHANDIGARH, MAY 27  

The Haryana Government has enhanced rate of Dearness Allowance (DA) for State Government employees, pensioners and family pensioners from 9 per cent to 12 per cent with effect from January 1, 2019. The extra financial liability on state exchequer is estaimated at Rs 17.70 crore approximately per month.

        While stating this here today, Haryana Finance Minister, Capt. Abhimanyu said that the current year extra financial liabilities for 14 months, from January 2019 to February 2020, would be Rs 247.80 crore.

        He said that the State Government has also enhanced the DA by 6 per cent for State Government employees, who continue to draw their pay in the pre-revised pay scale or grade as per the 6th Pay Commission, from the existing rate of 148 per cent to 154 per cent of the basic pay, with effect from January 1, 2019. This DA enhancement would have extra financial liability of Rs. 63.55 lakh approximately per month. The additional financial liabilities in financial year 2019-20 for 14 months, from January 2018 to February 2020, would be about Rs. 889.70 lakh.

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Haryana gets 10 additional companies of CAPF

CHANDIGARH, MAY 22

Haryana Director General of Police (DGP) Mr Manoj Yadava said that State has got 10 additional companies of Central Armed Paramilitary Forces to maintain law and order in Rohtak, Sonipat, Jhajjar, Bhiwani, Sirsa and Hisar districts as well as to ensure peace after announcement of the counting results in the state.

          The DGP said that State Police has made all necessary preparations to ensure law and order on May 23 when votes of the recently held Lok Sabha elections at 38 locations will be counted. Mounted police have also been deployed to ensure law and order across the state.

          The security of strong rooms, housing the EVMs, has been tightened with a total strength of 35 companies including 23 of Central paramilitary and 12 of Indian Reserve Battalion. In all, these companies will have a total of 3150 personnel. In addition to State Armed Police Force, adequate local police personnel have also been stationed for full-proof safety at the strong rooms where EVMs have been stored under three-layer security.

          He instructed the districts police chiefs to make full-proof security arrangements in and around the counting centres. “Any element that will try to vitiate the law and order and disrupt the counting process will not be spared”, the DGP warned.

          Mr Yadava urged the citizens to ignore rumors on counting day as Haryana Police will ensure completion of counting process in a peaceful and manner. He also sought support from representatives of political parties and people of the state on the day of counting.

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All preparations made for counting of votes in Haryana

CHANDIGARH, MAY 22

All preparations have been made in Haryana for the counting of votes, which will be held on May 23, 2019. Counting of votes will be carried out in 90 counting centres at 39 places in the state. Videography will be carried out at all counting centers.

        While stating this here today, Joint Chief Electoral Officer, Dr. Inder Jeet said that the counting of Kalka Assembly Constituency will be held at Government College for Girls, Sector 14, Panchkula and that of Panchkula Assembly Constituency at Government PG College, Sector 1, Panchkula. Similarly, the counting of Naraingarh Assembly Constituency will be held at B.P.S. Planetarium Complex, Ambala Cantt., counting of Ambala Cantt. Assembly Constituency will be held at S.D. College, Ambala Cantt., counting of Ambala City Assembly Constituency will be held at O.P.S. Vidya Mandir, Ambala City and counting of Mulana Assembly Constituency will be held at River Side D.A.V. Public School, Ambala Cantt.

        He said that the counting of Sadhaura Assembly Constituency will be held at Saraswati Vidya Mandir, School, Jagadhari, counting of Jagadhari Assembly Constituency will be held at Hindu Girls College, Jagadhari, counting of Yamunanagar Assembly Constituency will be held at D.A.V. Senior Secondary School Yamunanagar and counting of Radaur Assembly Constituency will be held at M.L.N. College Yamunanagar. Similarly, counting of Ladwa, Shahbad, Thanesar and Pehowa Assembly Constituencies of district Kurukshetra will be held at Aggarsain Public School, Sector 13, Urban Estate, Kurukshetra.

        Dr. Inder Jeet said that counting of Guhla (SC) and Pundri Assembly Constituencies will be held at I.G. (PG) College, Karnal Road, Kaithal, counting of Kalayat Assembly Constituency will be held at R.K.S.D. Public School, Ambala Road, Kaithal and counting of Kaithal Assembly Constituency will be held at R.K.S.D. (PG) College Hall, Kaithal. He said that counting of Nilokheri (SC), Indri, Karnal, Gharaunda and Assandh Assembly Constituencies of Karnal district will be held at S.D. Model Senior Secondary School, Karnal. Similarly, counting of Panipat Rural Assembly Constituency will be held at S.D. Vidya Mandir (Junior Wing) Panipat, counting of Panipat City Assembly Constituency will be held at Hall, S.D. Senior Secondary School, Panipat, counting of Israna (SC) Assembly Constituency will be held at Library hall, S.D. Senior Secondary School, Panipat and counting of Samalkha Assembly Constituency will be held at Hall, S.D. College, G.T. Road, Panipat.

        He said that counting of Ganaur, Rai, Kharkhauda (SC), Sonipat, Gohana and Baroda Assembly Constituencies of district Sonipat will be held at BITS, Mohana. Similarly, counting of Julana, Safidon and Jind Assembly Constituencies of district Jind will be held at Arjun Stadium, Jind and counting of Narwana (SC) Assembly Constituency will be held at Chaudhary Mani Ram Godara Government Women College, Bhodia Khera, Fatehabad. He said that counting of Tohana, Fatehabad and Ratia (SC) Assembly Constituencies of district Fatehabad will be held at Chaudhary Mani Ram Godara Government Women College, Bhodia Khera, Fatehabad.

        Dr. Inder Jeet said that counting of Kalanwali (SC), Dabwali, Rania, Sirsa and Ellenabad Assembly Constituencies of district Sirsa will be held at Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa. Similarly, counting of Adampur, Uklana (SC), Narnaud, Hansi and Hisar Assembly Constituency will be held at Mahabir Stadium, Hisar, and counting of Barwala Assembly Constituency will be held at Panchayat Bhawan, Hisar (West Wing) and Nalwa Assembly Constituency will be held at Panchayat Bhawan, Hisar (East Wing). He said that counting of Loharu, Badhra, Dadri, Bhiwani and Tosham Assembly Constituencies will be held at Board of School Education Haryana, Bhiwani and Uchana Kalan and Bawani Khera (SC) Assembly Constituencies will be held at Giri Centre, CCSHAU, Hisar.

        He said that counting of Meham Assembly Constituency will be held at Maharani Kishori Jat Kanya College, Multipurpose Hall, Rohtak, counting of Rohtak Assembly Constituency will be held at Hall of Jat Heroes Memorial Anglo Senior Secondary School, Rohtak, counting of Garhi-Sampla Kiloi and Kalanaur (SC) Assembly Constituencies will be held at C.R. College of Education, Rohtak. Similarly, counting of Bahadurgarh, Badli, Jhajjar (SC) and Beri Assembly Constituencies of district Jhajjar will be held at Government P.G. Nehru College, Educational Campus at Jhajjar-Bahadurgarh Road, Jhajjar. He said that counting of Ateli and Narnaul Assembly Constituencies of district Mahendragarh will be held at P.R. Centre, Near I.T.I Girl, counting of Nangal Chaudhary Assembly Constituency will be held at I.T.I Women, Narnaul and Mahendragarh Assembly Constituency will be held at Procurement centre of Food and Supply Department Narnaul. The counting of Bawal (SC) and Rewari Assembly Constituencies will be held at Hall of Government College for Women, Sector 18, Rewari and counting of Kosli Assembly Constituency will be held at Hall of Jain Boys Senior Secondary School, Rewari.

        He said that counting of Pataudi (SC) Assembly Constituency will be held at Commerce block-1 Government College, Sector 14, Gurugram, counting of Gurgaon, Sohna and Badshahpur Assembly Constituencies will be held at Government Girls College Sector 14, Gurugram and counting of Nuh, Ferozepur Jhirka and Punhana Assembly Constituencies will be held at Yaseen Meo Degree College, Nuh. Similarly, counting of Hathin, Hodal (SC) and Palwal Assembly Constituencies will be held at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar College, Sector 12, Palwal, counting of Prithla Assembly Constituency will be held at Yadav Dharamshala, Sector 16, Faridabad, counting of Tigaon Assembly Constituency will be held at Gujjar Dharamshala, Sector 16, Faridabad, counting of Faridabad NIT Assembly Constituency will be held at Lakhani Dharamshala, NH2, NIT Faridabad, counting of Badhkal Assembly Constituency will be held at Khan Dolat Ram Dharamshala, Charitable Trust, Near NIT Bus Stand, Faridabad, counting of Ballabhgarh Assembly Constituency will be held at Aggarwal Dharamshala, Near Panchayat Bhawan, Ballabgarh and counting of Faridabad Assembly Constituency will be held at Mahatma Hansraj Auditorium, D.A.V. School Sector 14, Faridabad.

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70.34 percentage of voting recorded in Haryana

CHANDIGARH, MAY 14 

The Joint Chief Electoral Officer, Haryana, Dr Inder  Jeet informed that  about 70.34 percentage of voting was recorded in the General Elections to Lok Sabha 2019 in Haryana. Out of this percentage of male voters was 71 and female voters 69.61.

He said that Sirsa Parliamentary constituency recorded the maximum voting with 75.97 percentage and Karnal recorded the lowest 68.35 percentage. Apart from this, 74.32 percentage of voting was recorded in Kurukshetra, 72.37 in Hisar, 71.12 percentage in Ambala, 70.57 in Rohtak, 70.96 in Sonipat, 70.49 in Bhiwani-Mahendragarh, 67.36 in Gurgaon and 64.12 percentage of voting has been recorded in Faridabad.

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Full proof security for EVMs and VVPAT machines

CHANDIGARH, MAY 13 

Haryana Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order), Mr Navdeep Singh Virk said that a full proof three-tier security arrangement backed by CCTV cameras has been put in place for all EVMs and VVPAT machines used in polling after peaceful conduct of General Parliamentary Election across the state.

          Mr Virk said that EVMs and VVPAT machines brought to the designated strong rooms from all polling stations where Police and paramilitary personnel will guard the rooms under round the clock vigil.

          Detailing about the three-tier arrangements, he said that in the first layer, Central Armed Police Forces are deployed near the strong rooms, Haryana Armed Police personnel posted in second layer and district police personnel are manning the outer layer. He said that 90 strong rooms have been established at 38 locations with 24x7 tight security and CCTV surveillance to ensure the safety of EVMs and VVPAT machines.

          Mr Virk said that Haryana Police throughout the election season kept the information flowing about police deployment or recoveries. The idea was to reassure the citizens of its presence and create a fear in the minds of those planning any disruption, he added.

          He also commended the all officers and jawans of State Police and other security forces who had worked tirelessly for ensuring free, fair and peaceful election across the state.

          It may be mentioned here that EVMs kept in strong rooms in the state will be opened on May 23 for counting.

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