Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on said that even during Covid-19 Pandemic, State Government  is committed to continue Government recruitments against vacant posts in various departments wherever needed.

He said the recruitment process of 12,500 posts is already in the pipeline, after written examination, the result of which would be declared after the lockdown period.

Interacting with the people of the State during the 'Haryana Aaj' programme, here, Khattar said arrangements have been made to start industrial and commercial units from April, 20 across the State in a phased manner.

The Chief Minister said that the industrial units which would follow the social distancing norms and would carry out their operations with less than 50 percent labour strength, can extend their working hours from 8 to12 hours, provided they shall pay double the salary for overtime to their workers. 

Khattar maintained that strictness on borders with Delhi was necessitated by emergence of fresh coronavirus cases in districts adjoining the national capital.He said the State Government had to take some tough measures as 28 cases have been detected in the past six days in districts of Sonipat, Jhajjar, Gurgaon and Faridabad, which are part of the national capital region.

The cases are either linked to those who are employed in Delhi, their family members or their contacts, he said, adding that “prevention is better than cure... bitter medicine is important to cure the disease and we will have to stop this cross-border movement".

“If we do not do this, then we will not be able to contain the spread of coronavirus. We will not allow this infection to enter our State from Delhi,” Khattar said.

Khattar said the employees in Delhi can stay there or if possible, can take leave and stay at places of their residence.

“We are allowing only a driver and one accomplice in the vehicles with essentials and they have to confine themselves to their homes after their duty,” added Khattar while updating people about the coronavirus situation in the state.

He said Haryana is doing better on many parameters, including the recovery rate.