Haryana Government on Friday announced that a horticultural centre would be set up in the honour of Martyr Capt. Pawan Kumar, Shaurya Chakra in Jind.
Capt Pawan Kumar, belonged to Haryana's Jind and was martyred during an encounter with militants last year in Pampore area in Kashmir valley. He was awarded Shaurya Chakra for his exemplary bravery during Pampore operation.
Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar on Friday said that a horticultural centre would be set up in the honour of martyr Capt. Pawan Kumar. Besides, the office of Zila Sainik Board would be set up in the newly created district of Charkhi Dadri.
Khattar made these announcements while presiding over a meeting of the Civil Military liaison Conference at the Headquarters, Western Command, Chandimandir, in Panchkula near here. lt General Surender Singh, AVSM, VSM, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C), Western Command, was also present at the meeting.
The Chief Minister said the State Government had always been in the forefront of ensuring the welfare of serving soldiers, ex-servicemen and their dependents. A separate Sainikand Ardh Sainik Welfare Department has been created with an independent administrative secretary, he said.
Besides, it has also been decided that all posts advertised by the state recruiting agencies would be hosted on the website of the Sainik and Ardh Sainik Welfare Department to be launched shortly so that ex-servicemen could take benefit of the seats reserved for them in various government departments, said the Chief Minister.
Khattar said during the last 32 months of the present government, various facilities had been extended to serving soldiers, ex-servicemen and their dependents in the state. The ex-gratia grant to the martyrs has been enhanced from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 50 lakh. As many as 115 persons have been given employment in different departments on compassionate grounds, he informed.
Also, financial assistance admissible to the disabled and blind ex-servicemen has been doubled. The scholarship for the students from Haryana studying in the Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun, has been enhanced from Rs 35,000 to Rs 50,000 per year per student from April 1, 2017, he added.
During the meeting, lt General, Surender Singh, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C), Western Command, lauded the State Government for always working with a positive intent for the welfare of serving soldiers, ex-servicemen and their dependents and announcing a number of incentives for them.
He also thanked the State Government for allotting five acres of land in Bahadurgarh for Jai Jawan Awas Yojna and said that Bhumi Pujan had been done and work on this project would be started soon. The state government has recently released financial aid of Rs 25 lakh for the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in Ambala.