Two new Ministers assume office
Chandigarh: Haryana Minister of State for Cooperation, Printing and Stationery and Urban local Bodies, Manish Kumar Grover and Minister of State for Public Health Engineering and Renewable Energy, Banwari lal assumed their offices in the presence of Chief Minister, Manohar lal, at Haryana Civil Secretariat, on Wednesday. Congratulating the Ministers, the Chief Minister hoped both of them would perform their duties to the best of their abilities and make a significant contribution in the development of the State. Grover has been allotted room No. 43 C at 8th floor whereas Banwari lal has been allotted room No. 36 at 7th floor at Haryana Civil Secretariat. Others present on the occasion included Agriculture Minister, O.P. Dhankar, Industries Minister, Vipul Goel, Information, Public Relations and languages Minister, Kavita Jain, Chairman, Housing Board, Jawahar Yadav, MlAs, Subhash Sudha, Bimla Chaudhary, Om Prakash, Tek Chand, Bhagwan Dass Kabir Panthi, Randhir Kapriwas and Rao Abhay Singh.
Reader to SDM Amloh nabbed for bribe
Chandigarh: Accelerating the campaign against the corrupt employees, sleuths of Punjab Vigilance Bureau on Wednesday nabbed reader of SDM, Amloh red handed while accepting bribe of Rs25,000. lakshmi Kant reader of SDM, Amloh was nabbed on the complaint of Surinder Singh. The complainant said his joint family owned 39 acres of agriculture land and out of his six siblings, he was fighting a case of division of land with two of his siblings. He alleged the case was pending with the SDM, Amloh and lakhsmi Kant, reader to SDM was demanding bribe of Rs25,000 to get the case adjudicated in his favour. On the tip off provided by the complainant a trap was laid and lakhsmi Kant was nabbed while accepting the bribe of Rs25,000.
Vij to attend global event on Hepatitis Day
Chandigarh: Haryana Health Minister, Anil Vij will participate in a global event on Hepatitis which is being organised on World Hepatitis Day on July 28 in Mumbai. The Brand Ambassador, Amitabh Bachchan, will also attend the event. Vij said the event was being organised by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO). The theme of the event is “Know Hepatitis, Act Now”, and it would help in understanding the magnitude of the problem and identifying the ways and means to prevent and control it. He said infection of hepatitis caused by different hepatitis viruses that is A, B, C, D and E, which affect millions of people worldwide, causing acute and chronic liver disease. India has about four crore people suffering from Hepatitis B. Every year, about 10 lakh Indians are at its risk and about one lakh die from this infection. Hepatitis C accounts for nearly 12 to 32 per cent of all cases of lever cancer and 10 to 20 per cent cases of cirrhosis of liver.
61 villages to get canal based drinking water
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has decided to provide a canal based drinking water supply scheme for 61 villages of blocks Ateli and Narnaul in district Mahendragarh. A spokesman of Irrigation and Water Resources Department said Chief Minister, Manohar lal has approved a proposal to this effect. He said the canal based water supply scheme of Public Health Engineering Department would get discharge of 9.66 cusecs for these villages. It would surrender 1.50 cusecs discharge from Silarpur distributary and one cusecs from Mohmadpur distributary for two separate water works at Katkai and Atali respectively.
New Ministers tender resignation from panels
Chandigarh: Haryana Vidhan Sabha Speaker, Kanwar Pal has accepted the resignation of two MlAs from membership of different committees of the Vidhan Sabha. Manish Kumar Grover has resigned from the Chairpersonship of the Committee on Subordinate legislation, on being appointed as Minister of State, Anoop Dhanak has resigned from the Membership of the Welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes Committee.
Haryana to continue concession to migrants
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has decided to continue with the concessions to the wards of Kashmiri migrants who are registered with other States also in the matter of their admission to the institutes of higher education operating within the State of Haryana. It applies for all academic sessions. An official spokesman said all the Vice Chancellors of the Universities had been directed to ensure compliance of these instructions and issue necessary instructions in this regard to all Principals, Directors and Heads of Institutions under their ambit for strict compliance of the instructions.
Haryana VB nabs two for taking bribe
Chandigarh: Haryana State Vigilance Bureau has caught Satyawan, Patwari posted at Halqa Kapro in district Hisar and Brahman Parkash, Head Constable posted at Police Station, Pataudi in district Gurgaon red-handed while accepting illegal gratification of Rs6,000 and Rs5,000, respectively, in separate cases.
‘BJP MlAs hold mirror to mis-governance’
Chandigarh: Kiran Choudhry, leader of the Haryana Congress legislature Party, has said the proceedings of the BJP legislature Party meeting on Tuesday “hold a mirror to the chaos, corruption and lack of governance in the name of good governance provided to the people of Haryana by the Manohar lal Khattar Government”. In a statement, the former Excise and Taxation minister said that the manner in which BJP legislators flayed the state government on counts more than one exposed the gap between saying (kathni) and doing (karni).
GST will mitigate the cascading effect of taxation
Chandigarh: The roll out of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will be a revolutionary step in the field of indirect taxation reform in India, said Sanjay Khurana, Chairman, CII Himachal Pradesh State Council at the Preparatory Workshop organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) at Chandigarh on Wednesday. By amalgamating a large number of Central and State taxes into a single entity, it will mitigate the cascading or double taxation effect in a major way and pave the way for a common unified national market, he added. He said, “It is important for industry to understand the impact and opportunities offered by this particular piece of legislation. GST will affect all industries, irrespective of the sector. It will impact the entire value chain of operations, namely procurement, manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, sales, and pricing. It will also trigger the need to re-look at internal organization IT systems.”