Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Wednesday said that keeping in view the heavy volume of traffic between Alawalpur Chowk and Agra Chowk, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to construct an elevated corridor between the two points instead of separate over bridges at Agra chowk and Alawalpur chowk in Palwal City.
He was replying to the calling attention notice of Congress MlA Karan Singh Dalal on traffic problem in Palwal.
The Chief Minister said that said that several steps have been taken by the district police to ensure smooth flow of traffic on National Highway No. 2. Adequate deployment of traffic police has been made.
At present, 121 police personnel have been deployed for traffic duty in the district and the force so deployed is working in two shifts of 12 hours each.
In addition, three PCR vehicles, two Interceptors, one Ambulance and two Rider motorcycles have been deployed for patrolling on NH-2, he said.
INlD STAGED WAlKOUT ON FARMERS’ ISSUES
The Indian National lok Dal on Wednesday staged a brief walkout from the State Assembly expressing dissatisfaction with the reply of Agriculture Minister OP Dhankar on the calling attention motion on the plight of farmers in Haryana.
INlD MlA Parminder Singh Dhull along with other INlD MlAs, while speaking during the calling attention motion, said that the farmers are not receiving the support price as per the actual cost of production and at the same time, the living standards of farmers are worsening as they are suffering from burden of debt.
The opposition MlAs had sought a reply from the Agriculture Minister on the how the Government plans to double the income of farmers as proposed by them and when would they implement the Swaminathan report promised in BJP’s election manifesto.
Dhankar while replying to the calling attention motion said that the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana is being implemented in order to compensate the farmers for their losses due to natural calamities. Also, the farmers are getting loan at zero per cent interest as the three per cent interest is subsidized by the Central Government and rest four per cent by State Government, said he.
Unhappy with the reply of the Minister, leader of opposition and INlD’s senior leader Abhay Singh Chautala, then, asked him not to make such claims and give answers to the queries of the opposition legislators.
INlD DEMANDS CBI INQUIRY
Indian National lok Dal, Haryana’s main opposition party on Wednesday demanded an inquiry by Central Bureau of Investigation into the Gwal Pahari scam in Gurugram.
leader of opposition and INlD’s senior leader Abhay Singh Chautala while talking to the mediapersons in Haryana Vidhan Sabha said that the State Government should get an inquiry conducted by CBI into the Gwal Pahari scam.
Chautala alleged that this is a Rs 4500 crore land scam involving alleged transfer of municipal land in Gwal Pahari to private parties at the behest of the BJP leadership. The name of Chief Minister has also cropped up in the entire controversy, he said.
The INlD leader added that the issue of Gwal Pahari should be discussed in the State Assembly and the government should mark a CBI inquiry into the multi-crore land scam.
Notably, 464 acres of land in Gurugram has been mired into a legal trouble for nearly four decades.