Haryana CM approves financial aid to bank
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Wednesday approved financial assistance of Rs100 crore for Haryana State Cooperative Agricultural and Rural Development Bank. The Chief Minister while reviewing the financial position of cooperative banks in a meeting here, suggested carrying out category wise analysis of loanees so that maximum recovery could be ensured from the beneficiaries who are in a sound position to repay. The cooperative could be made profitable in this way, he said. He directed the bank officers to take effective steps for improving the recovery from beneficiaries.
DFP to launch awareness programmes
Chandigarh: Directorate of Field Publicity (DFP), Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India organised an Orientation Workshop on the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Abhiyan for its field officers from Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. The North West Region of Directorate of Field Publicity would be launching a massive awareness programme on Beti Bachao Beti Padhao in the coming two months in the States of Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. Eighteen programmes shall be conducted in the months of February and March in the rural areas of these three States. Ravinder Singh, Director (Northern Region), Press Information Bureau, Chandigarh said that field officers must be prepared to address the problem of skewed sex ratio at the individual family level.