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CHIEF PATRON
Bhupinder Singh Hooda
PATRON
Pt Shiv Charan Lal Sharma
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Dr K K Khandelwal
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Sudhir Rajpal
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Shweta Vashishta
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Sunil Kumar
ILLUSTRATOR
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T
he momentous month we left behind made Haryana
richer and its people proud. We had the Union
Budget, Railway Budget and Haryana Budget. While the
Railway Budget showered on Haryana a bounty which
includes a rail coach factory, a welding plant, new tracks
and trains, and extension of some of the existing ones,
the Union Budget entitled Haryana, one of the Green
Revolution states, to benefit from the Rs 500-crore crop
diversification programme. To be implemented in the
original Green Revolution states, the proposal will help
promote technological innovation, encourage the farmers
to choose crop alternatives, and help such states as are
facing the recurring problem of stagnating yields and
over-exploitation of water resources, an answer to which
lies in crop diversification.
While the Haryana Assembly voted a motion thanking
the Central Government for showering on the state some
rail projects, the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh
Hooda, MP from Rohtak, Mr Deepender Singh Hooda, and
other leaders thanked the UPA Chairperson, Mrs Sonia
Gandhi, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and
Railway Minister, Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal, for addressing
the concerns and meeting the long-pending demands of
the people of Haryana.
The Haryana Budget, presented to the state Assembly
by the Finance Minister, Mr Harmohinder Singh Chattha,
paints the state’s economy in glowing light. “Haryana’s
economy is on the uptick; industry is booming; growth
is heading north; exports are soaring, and tax mop-up
is efficient. Defying strong headwinds unleashed by the
slowdown, Haryana’s GDP growth is estimated to grow at
7.1 per cent in 2012-13. The per capita income at current
prices is about Rs 1.24 lakh, up 13.3 per cent over last
year”, Mr Chattha told Haryana Review.
Haryana continues to draw the ‘who is who’ of India
Inc and global biggies. The state has catalysed investment
worth Rs 61,000 crore, including FDI worth Rs 13,128 crore
since 2005, and investment worth Rs 97,000 crore is in
the pipeline. Exports from Haryana have increased from
Rs 48,530 crore in 2010-11 to Rs 54,991 crore in 2011-12,
registering a jump of more than 13 per cent.
In our cover report, we look at the tax-free Haryana
Budget from various angles and perspectives to bring to
our readers full measure of its import, and decode how it
will have a positive rub-off on growth. March being the
month of Holi, we seek to capture the festival in all its
colours in our photo feature.
Read how hockey player Jaspreet Kaur has come back
with a bang to the field, defying all social odds against
her, in the sports column. In our art and culture section,
we bring to you the beauty and joy of spring captured on
canvas. g
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contents
Haryana sarkaar ne
hamare sapne sakaar kar
diye. Eib to hamara bhi
apna ghar hoga.
Cover story
Haryana poised for the big leap
p4
Defying strong headwinds, Haryana has made rapid strides in many
a field; the Haryana growth story is being told and retold at different
fora; and the state is poised to scale new heights of progress and
growth
Budget puts social icing on progress
p8
The Haryana Government has announced the Priyadarshini Awaas
Yojna to provide 2 lakh houses to the rural poor, and the Affordable
Urban Housing Policy 2013 to build 1.5 lakh houses in urban areas
Cover for the BPL and others too
p 14
Tonic for health sector
p 15
Fiscal health in financial figures
p 16
Haryana dons krishi cap again
p 18
Services Sector slice grows bigger
p 22
An ideal state in the making
p 24
Balanced growth sans bias
p 30
Fast-track courts for women
p 32
Haryana to set up infra board
p 34
Rail Budget rains gains for Haryana
p 35
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REPORT
Change the mindset on women: Sonia
p 38
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PHOTO FEATURE
The colours of Holi
p 40
NEWS IN CAPSULE
The month that was
p 48
SPORTS
Jaspreet defies odds, is back with a bang
p 50
ART AND CULTURE
The queen of seasons descends on the canvas
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POTPOURRI
When God made woman
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fEEDBACK
Feedback page
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Haryana poised
Defying strong headwinds, Haryana has made rapid strides in many a
field; the Haryana growth story is being told and retold at different fora;
and the state is poised to scale new heights of progress and growth
Parveen K Modi
I
f one were to squeeze the Address
of the Governor, Mr Jagannath
Pahadia, to the state Assembly, the
Budget presented by the Finance
Minister, Mr Harmohinder Singh
Chattha, and the Economic Survey,
into one sentence, may be a bit longish one, it would read, “Haryana has
made rapid strides in many a field;
the Haryana growth story is being
told and retold at different fora; and
that the state is poised to scale new
heights of progress and growth in the
near future”.
That the state has scaled new
peaks in all spheres of development,
be it industry and investment, power,
agriculture, infrastructure, health
or education, has become a talking
point.
people-friendly policies
The people-friendly policies pursued
by the state government, led by the
Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh
Hooda, having inspired efficient work
culture, Haryana is today rubbing
shoulders with advanced and progressive peers in the country, and is poised
to realise the vision of becoming an
ideal state. Small wonder, the state
has become a preferred destination
for investment, both of global and domestic hues. Needless to emphasise,
the credit for this goes to the peace
loving and hard working people of the
state.
That the economy is on the uptick
is borne out by the following facts.
The per capita income at current
prices is estimated at Rs 1,23,554
(advance estimates ) in 2012-13, up
13.3 per cent over last year; and Rs
1,41,540 (projected estimates) in
2013-14. Defying global and domestic
headwinds, Haryana’s GSDP grew
at 7.1 per cent, according to advance
estimates for 2012-13. The state has
proposed Rs 27,071.32-crore Annual
Plan for 2013-14, 18 per cent more than
last fiscal. The net outlay for the 201314 Plan is proposed at Rs 18,000 crore,
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for the big leap
24 per cent more than Rs 14,500 crore
for 2012-13.
Drags on the economy forced by
global and national slowdown notwithstanding, Haryana will be able to
achieve the revenue collection target
of Rs 19,962 crore under VAT, CST,
entertainment duty, passenger and
goods tax and excise for 2012-13. “We
projected our tax revenue for 2012-13
at Rs 23,873.28 crore and collected Rs
24,289.81 crore as per RE 2012-13 with
a growth of 19.07 per cent over 201112”, Mr Chattha told the state Assembly while presenting the Budget.
revenue receipts
The total revenue receipts were estimated at Rs 37,327.97 crore for 2012-13.
According to the revised estimates,
the state received Rs 37,824.07 crore,
registering a growth of 23.78 per
cent over 2011-12. This was achieved
without imposing any new taxes on
the people. Tax collection remained
efficient and the ratio of expenditure
to total tax collection up to December,
2012 was 0.59 per cent.
The industry-friendly policies
pursued by the state government have
made Haryana forge ahead on industrial front and emerge as a favourite
investment destination. Four Special
Economic Zones (SEZs) have already
become functional in the IT/ITES sector in Haryana and licenses have been
granted for establishment of 35 IT/
Cyber Parks. Also, two Regional Rapid Transit Systems (RRTS) Corridors,
namely, Delhi-Gurgaon-Rewari-Alwar
(158 kms) and Delhi-Sonipat-Panipat (111 kms) are to be developed on
priority basis.
Home of ‘who is who’ of India
Inc and global biggies, Haryana has
succeeded in catalysing investment
worth Rs 61,000 crore since 2005, and
investment worth Rs 97,000 crore is
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in the pipeline. The state received
foreign direct investment (FDI) of Rs
13,128 crore, out of which investment
of Rs 9,628 crore came after implementation of the Industrial Policy,
2005. Exports from Haryana increased
from Rs 48,530 crore in 2010-11 to Rs
54,991 crore in 2011-12, registering a
jump of more than 13 per cent.
Power generation at new peak
Power having emerged as the cornerstone of prosperity, progress and
development, the state government
is making all-out efforts to step up
generation and strengthen the transmission and distribution network.
On generation front, while only 724.4
MW-capacity was added between 1999
and 2005, during the eight years of the
present government, the capacity has
been augmented by 3,712.80 MW. This
is besides some long-term arrangements for procuring power from
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The Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh
Hooda, welcoming the Governor,
Mr Jagannath Pahadia, on his arrival
for inauguration of the Budget session
of the Vidhan Sabha
outside the state.
In order to assist the beleaguered
power distribution companies, the
state government has given in-principle concurrence for joining the
Central Government’s “Scheme for
Financial Restructuring of Distribution Power Utilities”.
Financial Restructuring Scheme
Under the scheme, the state government will take over the entire
short-term and long-term liabilities
of power discoms in the next three
years. This would enable discoms to
claim assistance from the Central
Government, subject to committed
reduction in the aggregate technical
and commercial (AT&C) losses.
Determined to provide quality and
reliable power supply to the consumers on a sustained basis, the Haryana
Government has firmed up plans to
invest Rs 2,000 crore in beefing up
and improving the transmission and
distribution network in the state. On
an average, 1,068 lakh units of power
was supplied every day to the consumers during the current financial
year against 578 lakh units in 2004-05.
Haryana has done exceedingly well
in agriculture sector. The foodgrain
production has reached a record level
of 183.42 lakh tonnes during 2011-12.
The production of wheat and rice
has reached all-time high with 130.69
lakh tonnes of wheat and 37.59 lakh
tonnes of rice. The state government
plans to establish a State Livestock
Mission to meet the challenges of
doubling the milk production by 2020
and the requirement of growth in
other livestock products. Haryana was again awarded
“Krishi Karman Award” by the President of India on January 15, 2013
for achieving highest productivity
of wheat in the country for 2011-12.
The state also achieved the highest
productivity in wheat of 5,182 Kg per
hectare.
Fight for share of waters
The Haryana Governor has, in his
Address, expressed the firm resolve
of his government to get Haryana’s
legitimate share of water as also
for expeditious construction of the
Sutlej Yamuna Link Canal. The government is committed to ensuring
equitable distribution of available
water in the state.Haryana is a water
stressed state having only 14 MAF of
water compared to its requirement
of 36 MAF.
Giving infra a strong push
Taking the Public Private Partnership (PPP) route to leverage own
funds with funds available with the
private sector to give infrastructure
the much-needed thrust, the Haryana
Government has decided to invest
Rs 50,000 crore in different projects
in six core sectors during the 12th
Five Year Plan. The Committee of
Secretaries on Infrastructure had
already approved certain projects for
implementation. The sectors which
will attract investment are: Roads
and Highways, Healthcare, Education and Skill Development, Tourism,
Urban Transport System and Water
Supply, Sanitation and Public Utilities in both urban and rural areas.
Haryana has added another to its
tally of firsts. It has become the first
state in the country to implement
the centrally sponsored National
Vocational Education Qualification
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Framework (NVEQF) project in
schools which aims at enhancing
the employability of youth through
competency-based modular vocational courses.
The sports policy of the state government has yielded outstanding results. Out of the six medals won by
India in the London Olympics, four
were bagged by the sportspersons of
Haryana. The state government has
now decided to give cash awards to
Paralympics sportspersons also at
par with other sportspersons.
Health indicators
Health remains the primary concern of the state government. It has
set up an all- woman medical college
with 100 MBBS seats and 500-bedded
hospital at Khanpur Kalan, the only
such college to be established for
women in post-independence history of the country; the only other
institution of its kind being Lady
Hardinge Medical College in Delhi.
Besides, a medical college each at
Nalhar in Mewat and Karnal are in
progress and would become operational soon, increasing the number
of government medical colleges in
the state to four. The state govern-
Haryana has added
another to its tally of
firsts. It has become
the first state in the
country to implement
the centrally sponsored
National Vocational
Education Qualification
Framework (NVEQF)
project in schools which
aims at enhancing the
employability of youth
through competencybased modular
vocational courses
ment has allotted 300 acres of land
in Badhsa village in Jhajjar District
for extension of AIIMS, New Delhi.
The Outreach Outdoor Patient
Department (OOPD) at the AIIMS-II
became functional on November 24,
2012 at an estimated cost of Rs 20
crore. The establishment of a National Cancer Institute with 600 beds
at a cost of Rs 1,800 crore is under
active consideration. There are four
more medical colleges in the private
sector, and a fifth one is proposed to
be commissioned in Majra Sheoraj
village in Rewari District in PPP
mode.
OPDs and IPDs are increasing by
the day. In 2012, 1.67 crore persons
availed themselves of the public
health facility as OPD and 14.2 lakh
as indoor patients.
free medicines to patients
This is a clear evidence of the faith
the common man has in government institutions and the growing
demand for better public health facilities. In 2012-13, Rs 75.14 crore will
be spent on providing free medicines
to the patients; the outlay for 2013-14
has been hiked to Rs 96 crore.
All efforts are being made to improve health indicators in the state.
While the IMR has improved by 4
points (SRS 2011), institutional deliveries have increased to 83 per cent.
An ambitious target is proposed for
12th Plan, i.e., by 2017 the IMR will
be reduced to 26 from current level
of 44, the MMR to 65 from the 153,
and the population suffering from
anemia will be brought down to 28
from current level of 56.1. g
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Budget puts social
icing on progress
The Haryana Government has announced the Priyadarshini Awaas
Yojna to provide 2 lakh houses to the rural poor, and the Affordable
Urban Housing Policy 2013 to build 1.5 lakh houses in urban areas
Shweta Vashishta
I
f the Budget presented by the Finance Minister, Mr Harmohinder
Singh Chattha, to the State Assembly is the cake made of the astounding economic progress made by Haryana, the social icing on it comes in
the shape of the housing schemes
for the rural and urban poor, insurance cover for the aam aadmi and
infrastructure development to make
the lives of its denizens easy and
comfortable.
Against the background of
international and national economy,
Haryana’s economy achieved the
growth of 7.1 per cent according
to advance estimates of GSDP for
2012-13. The per capita income of the
state at current prices is estimated
at Rs 1,23,554 (advance estimates ) in
2012-13, recording the growth of 13.3
per cent, and Rs 1,41,540 (Projected
Estimates) in 2013-14.
The Annual Plan outlay for 201314 is proposed at Rs 27,071.32 crore,
registering a growth of 18 per cent
The Annual Plan outlay
for 2013-14 is proposed
at Rs 27,071.32 crore,
registering a growth
of 18 per cent over the
2012-13 fiscal. The net
state plan outlay for
2013-14 is proposed at
Rs 18,000 crore, which
is 24 per cent more than
the outlay of Rs 14,500
crore for 2012-13
The Finance Minister, Mr
Harmohinder Singh Chattha,
all smiles just before
presenting the Budget
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over the 2012-13 fiscal. The net state
plan outlay for 2013-14 is proposed at
Rs 18,000 crore, which is 24 per cent
more than the outlay of Rs 14,500
crore for 2012-13.
Providing affordable housing to
the weaker sections of society is
one of the major priorities of the
Haryana Government headed by the
Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh
Hooda. Committed to the welfare of
the deprived, the state government
plans to launch an ambitious housing scheme, named Priyadarshini
Awaas Yojna (PAY), to facilitate the
housing delivery in rural areas.
The objective of the scheme is
to ensure housing delivery in rural
areas to the eligible/identified families under the Indira Awaas Yojana
(IAY), and other poor families, including those who have been allotted
100 sq yards plots and have no house
or have a kutcha house, by providing
them financial assistance.
grant for building house
Initially, 2 lakh families are to be
covered in a project span of two
years (FY 2013-14 and 2014-15). Each
of the beneficiaries, under the
scheme (PAY), will be given financial
assistance of Rs 81,000 by the state
as grant for the construction of a
new house.
In addition, an assistance of Rs
9,100 shall be provided to each of the
beneficiaries for the construction
of sanitary latrine in convergence
with the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan
(NBA). Thus, a beneficiary under
the scheme will be assisted up to
Rs 90,100 through convergence with
NBA. The government will provide
adequate infrastructural facilities
for water and power connections at
the doorstep of these beneficiaries.
A sum of Rs 350 crore in Budget
Estimates 2013-14 has been provided
for this purpose, with a similar provision to follow in the next year. The
rest of the funds are being raised
through the Housing and Urban
Development Corporation Limited
(HUDCO) to be repaid by the state
through the Haryana Rural Development Authority (HRDA).
In order to cater to the requirement of affordable housing for the
Quality power to consumers
Determined to provide quality
and reliable power supply to the
consumers on a sustained basis,
the Haryana Government has firmed
up plans to invest Rs 2,000 crore
in beefing up and improving the
transmission and distribution network
in the state.
On an average, 1,068 lakh units
of power were supplied every day to
the consumers in the state during the
current financial year against 578
lakh units in 2004-05. On generation
front, while only 724.4 MW-capacity
was added between 1999 and
2005, during the eight years of the
present government, the capacity
has been augmented by 3,712.80
MW. This is besides some long-term
arrangements for procuring power
from outside the state.
Power having emerged as
the cornerstone of prosperity,
progress and development, the
state government, led by the Chief
Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda,
is making an all-out effort to step up
power generation and strengthen the
transmission and distribution system.
In order to assist the beleaguered
power distribution companies, the
state government had given inprinciple concurrence to joining the
Central Government’s “Scheme for
Financial Restructuring of Distribution
Power Utilities”.
Under the scheme, the state
government will take over the entire
short-term and long-term liabilities
of power distribution companies
(discoms) in the next three years.
This would enable discoms to
claim assistance from the Central
Government, subject to committed
reduction in the aggregate technical
and commercial (AT&C) losses. The
scheme would also facilitate financial
institutions to provide working capital
loans to these utilities. A sum of Rs
5,253.97 crore has been allocated
for the power sector. This includes
Rs 965.09 crore on plan side and Rs
4,267.88 crore on non plan side.
During the last eight years,
340 new substations have been
constructed; capacity of 574
substations augmented; and 4,994
km length of new transmission lines
laid. A sum of Rs 1,800 crore is
being spent for upgradation of 37
transmission networks in 2012-13 and
2013-14.
During the 2012-13 (up to
December 2012) 13,487 tubewell
connections were released and
5,513 tubewell connections would
be released by March 31, 2013. Out
of 2.36 lakh families living below
poverty line, 1,94,442 have been
covered under the Rajiv Gandhi
Gramin Vidyutikaran Yojana.
Various other schemes have
also been launched to bring about
technological improvement in the
distribution network. For consumer
satisfaction, a special campaign
was launched on January 1, 2013
to expand and strengthen the
distribution network in villages,
wards, and sectors at the cost of Rs
500 crore.
Information Communication
Technologies, a very effective
computerised system for energy
audit, automatic meter reading, and
customer care, will be implemented in
36 towns in the next one year. Special
drives and campaigns are being
undertaken for reduction of losses
by curbing the theft of electricity,
strengthening the infrastructure and
recovery of dues from defaulters.
A sum of Rs 4,260.25 crore has
been allocated for subsidising power
consumption by farmers for operating
agricultural pump sets in 2013-14.
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weaker sections residing in the
urban areas, the government will
construct 1.5 lakh houses during
the next financial year 2013-14 and
2014-15 through the Housing Board
Haryana, Urban Local Bodies
Department and Town & Country
Planning Department.
Affordable Urban Housing Policy
2013 has been announced with different models for the construction
of below poverty line/economically
weaker section (BPL/EWS) and low
income group (LIG) houses through
the Housing Board Haryana, Urban
Local Bodies Department and Town
& Country Planning Department,
Low income group houses
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and also through public private
partnership.
A Public Private Partnership
(PPP) model has been proposed
under which the private developer
will be provided liberal concession
in Change Land Use (CLU) charges
and External Development Charges
(EDC), licence fee, additional Floor
Area Ratio (FAR) and facilities of
transferable development rights.
Financial institutions have been
mobilised to provide loan assistance to the beneficiaries under the
Interest Subsidy Scheme for Housing the Urban Poor (ISHUP) and
interest subsidy of 5 per cent will be
available up to loan of Rs 1 lakh. The
beneficiaries will be provided a unit
of 300 sq feet super area at highly
subsidised rates.
Tapping more resources to beef
up infrastructure, the state government has decided to use the Building
Construction Workers Cess Fund
corpus which has not been utilised
optimally. The fund will now be used
to build infrastructure, including
dispensaries, poly-clinics, anganwaris, primary schools, sewerage
and public health facilities, including drains, public toilets, etc.
This infrastructure in areas
largely inhabited by building
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construction workers can also be
utilised by other poor people. It will
help galvanise about Rs 1,000 crore
in a matter of one or two years for
their benefit.
Taking the PPP route to leverage
own funds with funds available with
the private sector to give infrastructure the much-needed thrust, the
Haryana Government has decided
to invest Rs 50,000 crore in different
projects in six core sectors across
the state during the 12th Five Year
Plan.
The Committee of Secretaries on
Infrastructure has already approved
Clusters of industrial growth
Recognising the employment
potential of micro, small and
medium enterprises (MSMEs) which
constitute the backbone of the
manufacturing sector, the Haryana
Government has decided to set up
15 clusters with Common Facility
Centres (CFCs) in the public-private
partnership mode.
Sites for setting up the clusters
have been identified and diagnostic
study reports (DSRs) prepared for
eight clusters and submitted to the
Central Government for appraisal.
Three of the clusters, proposed to be
set up in Bahadurgarh, Panipat and
Karnal, have already been approved
for setting up CFCs by the Central
Government. Four additional CFCs
are expected to be approved before
March 31, 2013.
These clusters were envisaged to
put into place an institutional support
mechanism to facilitate growth and
competitiveness of this sector and
would address the common needs
of MSMEs in the areas of research &
development, technology upgradation
support, standardisation of products,
quality testing and marking facilities,
marketing initiatives with promotion
of branding of products etc.
The initiative is oriented to build
a social capital so as to strengthen
collective action which will provide
spillover effects of economies of
scale, credit facilitation, technology
upgradation, brand building and
marketing.
Haryana continues to retain its
position as a preferred investment
destination. The rate of the
implementation of pledged investment
in the state is highest in the country.
As many as 1,054 IEMs, catalysing
an investment of Rs 40,538.65
crore with employment potential for
3,22,486 persons were filed with the
Central Government during 200512, of which 852 IEMs have been
implemented with an investment
of Rs 25,760.48 crore providing
employment to 2,05,776 persons.
Despite the market uncertainties
and volatility at the international and
national level, an investment of Rs
61,000 crore has been catalysed
since 2005, with an investment of
about Rs 97,000 crore being in the
pipeline.
Haryana has so far received
foreign direct investment of Rs 13,128
crore, of which, an investment of
Rs 9,628 crore has come up after
the implementation of the Industrial
Policy, 2005. The total exports
from the state have increased from
Rs 48,530 crore in 2010-11 to Rs
54,991 crore in 2011-12 registering an
increase of more than 13 per cent.
While HSIIDC has developed
infrastructure for technology parks
and electronics hardware technology
parks to promote IT sector at four
locations, i.e. Panchkula, IMT
Manesar, Kundli and Rai in Sonipat,
the ‘ready to move in space’ is being
created largely by the private sector
with the help of the pro-active policies
of the state government. Four SEZs
have already become functional in the
IT and ITES sector and licenses have
been granted for the establishment of
35 IT and cyber parks.
State’s share in the IT and
ITES sector exports during 201112 is estimated about 6 per cent
of total export from India and the
state accounts for 6.8 per cent of
the employment in the IT sector
throughout the country.
A sum of Rs 85.7 crore has been
allocated for this sector during 201314, which is Rs 33.54 crore (64.3 pc)
higher than the allocation for 2012-13.
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certain projects for implementation. The sectors which will attract
investment are: Roads and Highways, Healthcare, Education and
Skill Development, Tourism, Urban
Transport System and Water Supply,
Sanitation and Public Utilities in
both urban and rural areas. The
state government plans to appoint
transaction advisors to prepare a
basket of projects in each of these
segments for implementation
The Infrastructure Development
Fund (IDF) and the Infrastructure
Augmentation Charges (IAC) which
have more than Rs 1,500 crore, with
regular revenue stream every year,
will be utilised by the Haryana In-
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frastructure Development Board to
be constituted under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister.
Economic Stimulus Package
For infrastructure investment,
Economic Stimulus Package has
been enhanced from Rs 420 crore
in 2012-13 to Rs 850 crore in 2013-14.
There is plan to provide Rs 415 crore
for public health services, including
water supply and sanitation, Rs 350
crore for health and medical education and Rs 52 crore for PWD (B&R)
and Rs 33 crore for the Industries
Department.
Extension of Delhi Metro to
YMCA Chowk Faridabad with the
corridor length of 13.875 km is being
executed at a cost of Rs 2,494 crore.
For this, Haryana is contributing
Rs 557.4 crore. Further extension
from YMCA Chowk to Ballabhgarh,
which is 3.2 km away, the state has
recently given its approval at a cost
of approximately Rs 599 crore.
Extension of Delhi Metro from
Mundka to City Park Bahadurgarh,
having length of 11.182 km and total
cost of Rs 1,991 crore, was approved
on February 2, 2013. The Haryana
Government will contribute Rs
787.96 crore during the project period up to March, 2016.
The Central Government has allocated Rs 16.86 crore for making nine
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Mr Chattha presenting Budget
proposals for 2013-14
state.
Under the mission, a revised
budgetary allocation of Rs 542.7
crore was made for 2012-13, out of
which Rs 366.26 crore has already
been released to the municipalities
for various urban development activities. Inspired by development in
the urban areas during the current
financial year, the state government
has proposed an allocation of Rs
624.11 crore in the Budget for 201314.
With a view to augmenting the
resources of civic bodies, it has been
decided under the new excise policy
to enhance the allocation for local
bodies from Rs 5 per bottle to Rs 7
per bottle in IMFL, Rs 3 per bottle
to Rs 5 per bottle in country liquor
and Rs 2 per bottle to Rs 3 per bottle
of beer.
This will increase the devolution
of urban local bodies by Rs 51 crore.
The Haryana Budget has allocated
Rs 1,867 crore for urban local bodies
in 2013-14 which is Rs 712.8 crore (62
per cent) higher than the allocation
for the current year on plan side.
Taking the PPP route
cities of Haryana slum-free under
the Rajiv Awaas Yojana. These are
Gurgaon, Faridabad, Karnal, Panchkula, Rohtak, Panipat, Ambala,
Yamunanagar and Hisar. A sum of
Rs 1.51 crore had already been released for conducting the survey for
the purpose. Provision of Rs 50.99
crore has been made for 2013-14 for
implementation of the scheme.
The Haryana Government has
taken several initiatives to improve
civic amenities in the urban areas.
The Rajiv Gandhi Urban Development Mission (RGUDMH) has been
launched for beefing up urban infrastructure in mission mode approach
in all the urban local bodies of the
Since roads constitute the arteries
to growth, the state government
has taken the PPP route to lay new
roads and improve the old ones. The
first road project of Haryana on
Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis
for improvement of Gurgaon –Faridabad, Ballabgarh- Sohna and three
other roads was completed with a
negative grant of Rs 150.30 crore.
Four laning project of Rai Malikpur (Rajasthan Border)-Narnaul-Mahendragarh- Dadri- Bhiwani- Kharak Corridor has been taken up
on Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Transfer (DBFOT) basis over a
length of 151 km with estimated cost
of Rs 1,605 crore. An investment of
about Rs 400 crore would be made by
the state for the acquisition of land
and payment of utility shifting.
This project will improve road
connectivity to the state of Rajasthan. The concession agreement was
signed on November 30, 2012 and
work is likely to be started by July,
2013 and scheduled to be completed
by December, 2015. Since roads constitute
the arteries to growth,
the state government has
taken the PPP route to lay
new roads and improve
the old ones. The first
road project of Haryana
on Build-Operate-Transfer
basis for improvement
of Gurgaon–Faridabad,
Ballabgarh–Sohna and
three other roads was
completed with a negative
grant of Rs 150.3 crore
Four laning of Yamunanagar-Ladwa (Section of SH-06) and LadwaKarnal Section of State Highway
No-7, including Ladwa bypass on
DBFOT basis with a length of 54 km
and an estimated Civil Project Cost
of Rs 395.72 crore, has been taken up
with VGF support.
An expenditure of Rs 194 crore
shall be incurred by the state for
land acquisition and utility shifting,
out of which a sum of Rs 50 crore
has been allocated during the RE
2012-13. Work is likely to be started
during 2013-14 and is likely to be
completed by December, 2015.
The state government has
approved the following five roads
stretches to be improved under PPP
mode: Meerut-Sonipat up to Bahalagarh Chowk (Length 11.58 km);
Panipat-Sanoli road SH-16 (Length
18.31 km); Kond-Munak-Salwan-Assandh road MDR 114 (Length 37.85
km); Palwal-Aligarh up to border (Length 15.41 km); and Karnal-Meerut Road (Length 15.40 km).
Four out of the above said five
roads lead to the state of Uttar
Pradesh and improvement of
these roads shall improve the road
connectivity to Uttar Pradesh. An
investment of more than Rs 50 crore
shall be made by the state for land
acquisition, etc.
Thus, with the above initiatives
the Haryana Government will be
able to further accelerate the pace of
economic and social development of
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Cover for the BPL
and others too
Shweta Vashishta
T
hat the state government cares
for the man in the street and
is committed to the welfare of the
people cutting across the rural-urban
divide, is underscored by the host of
initiatives unfolded in the Budget.
These initiatives encompass women,
children and the poor.
What is bound to bring a ray of
hope in the life of the common man
and a smile on his face is the Aam
Aadmi Bima Yojana being launched
in Haryana in 2013-14. The Rs 37
crore-scheme will bring insurance
cover to the rural and urban BPL
households and families marginally
above the poverty line. It will provide insurance cover of
Rs 30,000 on natural death, Rs 37,500
on partial permanent disability due
to accident and Rs 75,000 on death or
total permanent disability due to accident. Add on benefit of scholarship
@ Rs 100 pm for each child (maximum
of two children) studying between
IXth to XIIth standard, including ITI
courses, will also be provided.
Other initiatives
For effective and efficient implementation of the District Plan Scheme,
the Government has constituted the
District Development and Monitoring
Committee in each district under
the chairmanship of the minister-in-charge of the District Griev-
ances Redressal Committee. The state government has also
approved the constitution of 21 Fast
Track Courts, one in each district,
to expedite the trial in crime against
women.
The Rajiv Gandhi Panchayat
Sashaktikaran Abhiyan (RGPSA)
is a new umbrella scheme which
is being started during 2013-14. It
will strengthen the Panchayati Raj
System across the state and address
critical gaps that constrain it.
democratic decision making
It will enhance capacities and
effectiveness of Panchayats and
Gram Sabhas enabling democratic
decision making and accountability
in Panchayats, thereby promoting
people’s participation. During 201314, Rs 85 crore is provided for this
new scheme.
For promotion of sports through a
multi-pronged approach, an allocation of an outlay of Rs 100 crore
under Plan side is made, giving an
increase of 100 per cent from last
year. This would assist the Sports
Department in completing most of
the sports infrastructure projects in
the state and boost investment in new
projects.
Under the National River Conservation Programme, two projects for
augmentation of sewerage facilities
and construction of Sewage Treatment Plants for Sonipat and Panipat
towns have been approved at the cost
of Rs 88.36 crore and Rs 129.51 crore,
respectively to be completed by 201516.
There is a proposal to provide Rs
50 crore for the development of water
bodies in the state. This new scheme
to be implemented by the Irrigation
Department includes development of
large water bodies, like Kotla Lake in
Mewat, Bibipur Lake in Kurukshetra
and Peer Bhaudi Lake, Rohtak, and
such other places where stored water
can then be utilised for irrigating
fields by the farmers in the area.
The Integrated Financial and
Human Resource Management
Information System (IF & HRMIS) is
being developed to make budgetary
controls more effective, improve cash
flow management, promote day-wise
reconciliation of accounts and bring
about transparency and efficiency in
public delivery systems, and better
financial management along with
improved quality of governance in
the state. A provision of Rs 7 crore is
made in 2013-14 for this project.
The Urban Health Mission is
being started to address the health
concerns of the urban poor through
facilitation of equitable access to
available health facilities by rationalising and strengthening the existing capacity of health delivery for
improving the health status of urban
poor. A provision of Rs 14 crore has
been made during 2013-14.
health infrastructure
New poly clinics, dispensaries and
other health infrastructure will
be provided in the first phase. The
Indira Bal Swasthya Yojana (IBSY)
is also a new scheme to provide free
treatment to all children in the state
for which an amount of Rs 1.5 crore
is provided during 2013-14.
A sum of Rs 16 crore has been provided in 2013-14 to set up the National
Law University in Sonipat, and new
Government Engineering Colleges at
Rewari and Jhajjar.
The state government has approved NABARD-assisted project of
Rs 68 crore for construction of 6,095
separate toilets for girls along with
2,910 hand pumps for water in 2,910
government high/higher secondary
schools in rural areas of the state.
The project will be completed in three
years from 2013-14 onwards. g
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Tonic for health sector
The Finance Minister has announced a slew of proposals in the
health sector while presenting the Haryana Budget for 2013-14 to
give a boost to health and medical education facilities in the state
of new medical colleges has been proposed. The commission of a medical
college at Village Majra Sheoraj in
Rewari District under PPP mode has
been proposed. A medical college each
is being built at Nalhar in Mewat and
Karnal, and are expected to become
operational soon. The Bhagat Phool
Singh Government Medical College,
with 100 MBBS seats and a 500-bedded hospital, has been established at
Khanpur Kalan – the only such college
established for women post-independence.
hookah bar free state
Aditi Ahuja
A
four-point drop in the Infant
Mortality Rate (IMR) in one year;
the setting up of an all-woman medical
college at Khanpur Kalan; and the
distinction of being the first ‘hookah
bar free’ state of India. Buoyed by
these, and many more achievements
in the fields of healthcare and medical
education in the state, the Finance
Minister, Mr Harmohinder Singh Chattha, announced a slew of proposals in
the health sector while presenting the
Budget for 2013-14 in the State Assembly.
He said that under the 13th Finance
Commission, the government had
approved major upgradation projects
for hospitals at Narnaul, Samalkha,
Siwani, Panchkula, Jind and Palwal.
Also, eight Community Health Centres,
eleven Primary Health Centres and
an additional block of the General
Hospital at Narnaund (Hisar) are to be
constructed. The district hospital at
Yamunanagar is also being upgraded.
The government has allotted 300
acres of land in Badhsa village in
Jhajjar for the extension of AIIMS,
New Delhi. It is also considering the
establishment of a National Cancer
Institute with a capacity of 600 beds at
a cost of Rs 1,800 crore. The project will
take three years for completion.
In order to improve health indicators in the state, the government has
proposed an ambitious target for the
12th Plan – by 2017; IMR will be reduced
to 26 from the current level of 44. Also,
the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR)
will be reduced to 65 from 153, and
population suffering from anaemia will
be brought down to 28 from 56.1.
IMR improved
In the previous year, IMR had improved
by 4 points according to the Sample
Registration System (SRS) 2011 and
institutional deliveries had improved
to 83 per cent.
Under the Ayush programme, the
new Drug Testing Laboratory and
Pharmacy at Kurukshetra will be operationalised, for which the buildings
have already been completed. Facility
for CT scan and MRI scan in all the
district hospitals at highly subsidised
rates by bringing in private investment
on the PPP mode will also be provided.
In order to give a boost to medical
education in the state, construction
Listing the achievements of the state,
Mr Chattha announced that Haryana
was declared the first ‘hookah bar free’
state in the country in 2012-13, and
strenuous efforts were on to make it a
‘medical intoxicants free’ state in 201314. In the state, the conviction for violations under the Drugs and Cosmetics
Act is more than 75 per cent, which is
the highest in the country.
Haryana was also the first state to
implement the provisions of the Infant
Milk Substitute, Feeding Bottle and
Infant Food (Regulation of Production,
Supply and Distribution) Act 1992/
Amendment Act 2003. This Act discourages advertisements and promotion
of infant milk substitute products and
promotes breast feeding.
Haryana has also become the first
state in North India to start online
sale of licenses to chemist shops. The
government has proposed to start online licensing and registration of Food
Business Processors under the Food
Safety and Standards Act, 2006.
This year, Rs 477.39 crore has been
allocated to the health sector, constituting a growth of 62 per cent over the
budget estimate of 2012-13 on plan side.
Also, Rs 400 crore has been allocated
for medical education, with a growth
of 69 per cent over the budget estimate
of 2012-13 on plan side. g
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Fiscal health in
financial figures
The Haryana Budget paints the state’s resources management in
good light with key indicators pointing to the right direction
Parveen K Modi
T
he Haryana Budget, presented by
the Finance Minister, Mr Harmohinder Singh Chattha, to the state
Assembly, paints the state’s fiscal and
resources management in good light.
Key financial figures speak for the fiscal health of the economy of the state.
Riding buoyancy in revenue generation, the state government, led by Mr
Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has managed
the debt situation well; outperformed
other states in mopping up resources;
and improved certain ratios that speak
for good financial governance.
“Haryana has outperformed major
states in mobilising financial resources, topped the revenue collection target
for 2012-13 by close to Rs 500 crore, and
is well on way to the debt sustainability
path,” the Finance Minister, Mr Harmohinder Singh Chattha, told Haryana
Review.
resource mobilisation
According to the Working Group on
State Financial Resources for the 12th
Plan, set up by the Planning Commission, against the national average
mobilisation of 92.5 per cent of the
projections made in the 11th Five-Year
Plan, Haryana was able to mop up
resources to the extent of 192 per cent
of the projected mobilisation.
Mr Chattha said with a view to ensuring sustainable debt management,
the 12th Finance Commission had
recommended that interest payment
to total revenue receipts ratio should
be 15 per cent, instead of 18 per cent,
prescribed by the 11th Finance Commission. In Haryana, this ratio was
12.71 per cent during the 11th Five Year
Plan. “It implies that the state is on the
debt sustainability path”, Mr Chattha
added.
Slowdown notwithstanding, Haryana will be able to achieve the revenue
collection target of Rs 19,962 crore
under Value Added Tax (VAT), Central
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Sales Tax (CST), entertainment duty,
passenger and goods tax and excise for
the current year. “We projected our tax
revenue for 2012-13 at Rs 23,873.28 crore
and we collected Rs 24,289.81 crore
according to Revised Estimates (RE)
2012-13 with a growth of 19.07 per cent
over 2011-12”, Mr Chattha said.
NO NEW TAXES
The total revenue receipts were estimated at Rs 37,327.97 crore for 2012-13
and as per RE 2012-13, the state received
Rs 37,824.07 crore, registering a growth
of 23.78 per cent over 2011-12. This
was achieved without imposing any
new taxes on the people. Tax collection remained efficient as the ratio of
expenditure to total tax collection up to
December, 2012 was 0.59 per cent.
“This remarkable achievement has
been made in spite of the fact that in
2012-13, the state government reduced
VAT from 12.5 per cent to five per cent
on surgical tables and surgical lights
used for surgery of patients in operation theatres, and bitumen emulsion
and crumb rubber-modified bitumen
to provide relief to general public”, Mr
Chattha said.
growth in VAT
For 2013-14, revenue receipts have been
estimated at Rs 43,780.33 crore, 15.75
per cent more than RE for 2012-13.
The tax revenue of Rs 28,784.34 crore
represents growth of 18.5 per cent over
RE for 2012-13. The growth in VAT is
assumed at 17.26 per cent, and in excise
33.33 per cent. The revenue expenditure is expected to grow at 12.77 per
cent to Rs 46,223.56 crore.
“The revenue deficit as a percentage of Gross State Domestic Product
(GSDP); fiscal deficit as a percentage of
GSDP; the ratio of salary and pension to total revenue receipts; and the
debt-GSDP ratio are set to register a decline in 2013-14,” Mr Chattha said. This
underscores the state government’s
commitment of zero burden (no fresh
taxes) on the residents of the state.
The revenue deficit as a percentage
to GSDP will further decline to 0.59
according to Budget Estimates (BE)
2013-14 against 0.9 in 2012-13 (RE). The
fiscal deficit as a percentage tof GSDP
will also fall from 2.3 per cent in 2012-13
(RE) to 2.2 per cent in 2013-14. Then, the
For 2013-14, revenue
receipts have been
estimated at Rs
43,780.33 crore, 15.75
per cent more than RE
for 2012-13. The tax
revenue of Rs 28,784.34
crore represents growth
of 18.5 per cent over RE
for 2012-13. The growth
in VAT is assumed at
17.26 per cent, and in
excise 33.33 per cent
ratio of salary and pensions to total
revenue receipts is also expected to
come down from 38.68 per cent in 201213 (RE) to 37.94 per cent in 2013-14 (BE),
the Finance Minister added.
The debt-GSDP ratio too is estimated to decline favourably from 16.5 per
cent in 2012-13 (RE) to 16.47 per cent
in 2013-14 (BE), well within the target
of 22.8 per cent prescribed by the 13th
Finance Commission.
Haryana expects a growth of 17.26
per cent in VAT in 2013-14 to yield
Rs 19,288.61 crore. The excise policy
announced by the government will
yield Rs 4,000 crore; and stamps and
registration, passengers and goods
tax, share from central taxes, vehicle
taxes, etc, will take receipts under tax
revenue to Rs 32,268.24 crore.
annual plan outlay
With a view to achieving the objective of “faster, inclusive and sustainable growth” in the 12th Five Year
Plan, an outlay of Rs 2,7071.32 crore
has been proposed for the Annual
Plan 2013-14, 18 per cent over and
above the RE of 2012-13. This outlay
includes an amount of Rs 7,512.83
crore for State Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) and Rs 1,558.49 crore for
local bodies to be met out from their
own resources”, Mr Chatha said.
The enhanced Plan budget is
expected to propel growth in 2013-14
as it will help expand capacity in
the economy. A conscious effort has
been made to reduce the revenue
deficit for 2013-14 to Rs 2,443.23 crore,
with available resources and key
initiatives outside the budget involving public-private partici ation,
and leveraging other funds being
maintained by different entities, Mr
Chattha added. g
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The Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, receiving Krishi Karman Award for the second time in a row for
highest wheat production from the President of India, Mr Pranab Mukherjee
Haryana dons
krishi cap again
For the second consecutive year, the state
has been awarded the Krishi Karman
Award for achieving the highest wheat production and productivity in the country
Ruchi Sharma
H
aryana has set a trend of tremendous achievement in wheat
productivity. For the second consecutive year, the state has been awarded
the Krishi Karman Award for Best
Performing State in Wheat Category
for 2011-12. The President of India,
Mr Pranab Mukherjee, conferred
this award on the Chief Minister of
Haryana, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda,
on January 15, 2013 at Rashtrapati
Bhawan in New Delhi.
The award consists of Rs 1 crore in
cash, a trophy and citation. Haryana
has been given this award for highest wheat production of 130.69 lakh
tonnes with productivity of 5,182 kg
per hectare during 2011-12. The Prime
Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, had
conferred the same award on the state
for 2010-11 last year.
Haryana is the second largest
contributor of food grains to the
Central pool. More than 60 per cent
export of basmati rice is taking
place from the state alone. Similarly,
Haryana achieved an impressive level
of productivity of 1,869 kg per hectare
under mustard crop during 2010-11,
which was highest in the country. The
state has increased sugarcane prices
to the tune of Rs 45 per quintal for all
varieties during 2012-13.
The state per capita per day milk
availability is 708 grams against
national average of 281 grams. The
target for 2013-14 is to set up 600 hitech and mini units, produce 71.15
lakh tonnes of milk, 43,000 lakh eggs
and 13.80 lakh kg of wool with plan
outlay of Rs 125 crore.
The agriculture sector has always
been an important contributor to the
State Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
As a consequence of rapid structural
transition of the state economy over
the years, the contribution of the Agriculture & Allied Sector at constant
(2004-05) prices went down to only
16.7 per cent in the State GDP during
2011-12.
Agri growth vital
The economic growth of the state has
become more sensitive to the growth
rates in industry and services sectors
during the past few years but the
recent experience suggests that high
GDP growth without consistent and
rapid agricultural growth is likely
to accelerate inflation in the state
which would jeopardise the larger
growth process. Therefore, the growth
of the Agriculture and Allied Sector
continued to be a critical factor in
the overall performance of the state
economy.
The Agriculture & Allied Sector is
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composed of Agriculture, Forestry &
Logging and Fishing Sub-sectors. Agriculture including crop husbandry
and dairy farming is the main component contributing about 95 per cent in
GDP of Agriculture & Allied Sector.
The contribution of Forestry and
Fishing sub-sectors in GDP of Agriculture and Allied activities is merely
around 4 and 1 per cent, respectively
resulting in very low impact of these
two sub-sectors on the overall growth
of Agriculture & Allied Sectors.
Horticulture PRODUCTION
The Horticulture Sector with coverage over 6.61 per cent of gross
cropped area i.e. 4.30 lakh hectares is
yielding production of 57.11 lakh MTs,
comprising 4.76 lakh MTs of fruits
over 47,036 hectares, 50.68 lakh MTs
of vegetables over 3.56 lakh hectares,
64,150 MTs of flowers over 6,340 hectares and 93,585 MTs spices over 18,092
hectares during 2011-12.
As many as 260 Farmer Interest
Groups (FIGs) and five producer
organisation groups were formed
during 2012-13 to arrange, procure
and sell collectively the produce in the
market.
The Horticulture Bio Technology
Centre is being set up at Shamgarh,
Karnal, to develop potato seeds
through micro tuber breeder which
Haryana is second
largest contributor of
food grains to the Central
Pool. More than 60 per
cent export of basmati
rice is taking place from
the state alone. Similarly,
Haryana has achieved
an impressive level of
productivity of 1,869 kg/
hectare under mustard
crop during 2010-11,
which was highest in the
country
will be distributed at nominal rates to
farmers. Under the National Horticulture Mission, Centre for Subtropical
Fruits at Ladwa, Kurukshetra for Rs
5 crore, Integrated Bee Development
Centre at Murthal, Sonipat for Rs 10
crore and Flower project at Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agriculture University (CCSHAU), Hisar
for Rs 15 crore have been approved in
principle.
A substantial provision of Rs 150
crore has been made for assisting the
Cooperative Sugar Mills in the state
in paying the State Advised Price
(SAP) to the sugarcane growers.
The state government has decided
to pay Rs 276 per quintal for the early
varieties, Rs 271 per quintal for the
middle and Rs 266 per quintal for the
late varieties of sugarcane which is
higher than the previous year by Rs 45
per quintal for each variety.
The Haryana State Cooperative
Agriculture and Rural Development
Bank (HSCARDB) has been provided
with Rs 142 crore to enable the sustenance of the long-term cooperative
structure. During 2013-14, a sum of
Rs 107 crore has been provided for the
same purpose.
A budget of Rs 1,854.29 crore has
been allocated for agriculture sector
during 2013-14 which is Rs 272.57 crore
(13 per cent) higher than the allocation of Revised Estimates (RE) for the
current year. This includes Rs 1,084.87
crore on Plan side and Rs 769.42 crore
on Non Plan side.
Increased storage capacity
Efforts have been made to increase
covered storage capacity for foodgrains in a big way. As on March 31,
2012, the state had covered storage
capacity of 48.79 LMT, which included
2.94 LMT capacity added in the last
three years. Further, storage capacity
to the tune of 15.49 LMT is likely to be
added during 2012-13.
In addition, during 2013-14, the
Wheat yields prosperity
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per cent), barley (17.7 per cent) and
fruits (32.5 per cent) during the year.
The average annual growth of
Agriculture and Allied Sector of the
State recorded as 3.9 percent during
the 11th Five Year Plan was slightly
higher than that achieved at all India
level (3.7 per cent).
The gross area sown in the state
during 1966-67 was 45.99 lakh hectares
which has increased to 65.05 lakh
hectares in 2012-13. The contribution
of area under wheat and paddy crops
to the total gross area sown is about
58 per cent. The area under commercial crops i.e. sugarcane, cotton and
oilseeds has fluctuating trends.
food grains production up
Capsicum cultivation at Centre of Excellence for Vegetables, Gharaunda
procurement agencies of the state
have been directed to add another 22
lakh MT storage capacity, for which
necessary action is being taken by
the concerned agencies. This would
significantly increase the covered
storage capacity in the state leading
to minimum storage losses of food
grains.
High procurement
The state has procured substantially
higher quantities of wheat and paddy
during the year 2012-13 as compared
to last year-- 87.16 LMT of wheat and
38.46 LMT of paddy as compared to
69.28 LMT of wheat and 29.66 LMT
of paddy during the previous year.
The state ensured the payment of
Minimum Support Price (MSP) to all
the farmers by arranging adequate
finances for this purpose.
The growth rates recorded individually for agriculture, forestry, and
fishing sectors during 2011-12 were 8.6,
2.1 and 12.8 per cent, respectively. The
encouraging growth of 8.6 per cent in
agriculture sector could be possible
mainly due to the sharp rise in production of paddy (8.5 per cent), wheat
(12.9 per cent), cotton (50 per cent),
sugarcane (15.2 per cent), maize (26.3
A remarkable increase in food grains
production is visible in the state
since its inception. The food grains
production in the state has reached an
impressive level of 183.42 lakh tonnes
during 2011-12, registering an increase
of about seven times as compared to a
meagre 25.92 lakh tonnes production
in 1966-67. The wheat and paddy crops
have played a major role in pushing
up the agricultural production. The
production of wheat and rice (the
main cereal crops of the state) has
achieved an all-time high production.
The production of wheat during
2011-12 was 130.69 lakh tonnes and
Production of major crops (000 tonnes)
Year
Wheat
Rice
Total
Oilseeds Cotton
Sugarcane
F/Grain (000 bales) 1966-67
1,059
223
2,592
92
288
5,100
1970-71
2,342
460
4,771
99
373
7,070
1980-81
3,490
1,259
6,036
188
643
4,600
1990-91
6,436
1,834
9,559
638
1,155
7,800
2000-01
9,669
2,695
13,295
563
1,383
8,170
2005-06
8,853
3,194
13,006
830
1,502
8,310
2006-07
10,059
3,371
14,759
837
1,805
9,651
2007-08
10,232
3,606
15,294
617
1,882
8,850
2008-09
11,360
3,299
16,405
911
1,862
5,206
2009-10
10,488
3,628
15,345
862
1,918
5,707
2010-11
11,578
3,465
16,566
945
1,747
6,040
2011-12
13,069
3,759
18,342
771
2,621
6,959
2012-13
12,434
3,976
17,621
947
2,384
7,490
(Provisional)
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Average yield of wheat and rice in Haryana and
at all India level (kg per hect)
production of rice during 2011 was
37.59 lakh tonnes, registering twelvefold increase in wheat and seventeen-fold increase in rice production
as compared to 10.59 lakh tonnes and
2.23 lakh tonnes production, respectively during 1966-67.
Wheat
Rice
Wheat
Rice
2000-01
4,106
2,557
2,708
1,901
average yield
2005-06
3,844
3,051
2,619
2,102
2006-07
4,232
3,238
2,708
2,131
2007-08
4,158
3,361
2,785
2,203
2008-09
4,614
2,724
2,907
2,178
2009-10
4,215
3,008
2,907
2,125
2010-11
4,624
2,788
2,938
2,240
2011-12
5,182
3,044
NA
2,207
2012-13
(Provisional)
4,950
3,272
NA
NA
The average yield of wheat and rice
at all India level was 2,938 and 2,240
kg per hectare, whereas in Haryana it
was 5,182 and 3,044 kg per hectare, respectively during 2011-12. The average
yield of wheat and rice during 2012-13
is estimated at 4,950 and 3,272 kg per
hectare, respectively in the state.
The Weather-Based Crop Insurance Scheme (WBCIS) was for the
first time started in the state during
Rabi 2009-10. Presently, WBCIS is
being implemented in 18 blocks of 17
districts in the state. Wheat and paddy
are primarily covered, whereas cotton
and bajra have also been taken in one
block each.
The Modified National Agriculture Insurance Scheme (MNAIS) was
for the first time started in the state
during Kharif 2011 on pilot basis
in Karnal and Kaithal districts for
paddy crop. Presently, MNAIS is being
implemented in four districts, namely
Karnal, Kaithal Rohtak and Jind, for
wheat and paddy crops. The scheme
is going to be implemented at village
level as a unit.
premium slabs
There is a provision of 40 to 75 per
cent subsidy depending on various
premium slabs from 2 to 15 per cent.
All the claims are given by the implementing agencies. As many as 93,415
farmers have been covered up to Kharif 2012-13. An amount of Rs 2,253.19
lakh as premium has been collected
up to Kharif 2012-13 and claim of Rs
3,438 lakh paid till 2011-12.
The Central Government has
launched two new centrally-sponsored
schemes, namely National Food Security Mission (NFSM) and Rashtriya
Krishi Vikas Yojna (RKVY) from Rabi
2007-08. The main objective of NFSM
is to increase the production of wheat
and pulses through area expansion
and productivity enhancement in a
sustainable manner in the identified
Year
Haryana
India
privilege of being a pioneer in adoptThe average yield of
ing Sprinkler Irrigation Technology
wheat and rice at all
in the country. During the current
India level was 2,938
financial year, 8,000 new sprinkler sets
and 2,240 kg per hectare, are likely to be added, raising the total
number of sprinkler sets to 1,35,283 in
whereas in Haryana it
the state. These sets are functioning
was 5,182 and 3,044 kg
mostly in the arid and semi-arid belts
per hectare, respectively of the state.
during 2011-12. The
popular water-saving method
average yield of wheat
Laying out underground pipeline
and rice during 2012-13
system is popular water-saving
is estimated at 4,950 and method being adopted by the farmers.
During 2011-12, 18,932 hectares area
3,272 kg per hectare,
was brought under this system and Rs
respectively in the state
28.81 crore were utilised for providing
districts in the state. An amount of Rs
55.1 crore has been allocated during
2012-13 under NFSM.
The main objective of RKVY is to
help/achieve the growth target of 4
per cent per annum in agriculture
and allied sectors. RKVY is aimed at
incentivising the states to invest more
in agriculture and allied sectors and
it offers considerable flexibility to the
state in the planning, selection and
approval of the project. For optimum
use of scarce irrigation resources,
underground pipeline system is promoted and an amount of Rs 45 crore
is being spent on the activities under
RKVY.
Haryana can legitimately claim the
assistance @ 50 per cent of the cost of
system with maximum ceiling of Rs
60,000 per beneficiary. During the year
2012-13, an amount of Rs 45 crore has
been approved under RKVY to cover
an area of 36,000 hectares.
This year, instead of Farm
Darshan, Kisan Mela (Rabi) was
organised on September 12-13, 2012 to
show the field trials and experiments
conducted on various Kharif crops.
The seed of improved varieties of
Rabi crops and fertilisers worth Rs
63,34,000 were sold. The CCS Haryana
Agricultural University publications
were also sold for value of Rs 93,160.
The university for the first time established Agro-Industrial Exhibition
during Kisan Mela (Rabi). g
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Services Sector
slice grows bigger
The rise in the
Services Sector’s
share in the GDP
of Haryana marks
a structural shift in
the state economy
and takes it closer to
the fundamentals of
a developed economy
Ruchi Sharma
S
ervices Sector has come to rule
the roost. This aptly sums up and
defines Haryana’s economy today.
The Services Sector contributes the
maximum share --54.6 per cent-- to
the GDP of the state. Earlier, the
economy was agriculture based
but with the passage of time, it has
undergone a significant structural
transformation which is seen as a
sign of maturing of the economy. At
the inception of the state, the contribution of Agriculture and Allied
Sector to the GDP was the biggest but
today the Services Sector has de-pedestalled it.
Over the years, the share of Agriculture and Allied Sector in GDP
declined from 60.7 per cent (1969-70)
to 28.1 per cent (2001-02) while the
share of Industries Sector increased
from 17.6 per cent (1969-70) to 28.6 per
cent (2001-02) and the share of Services Sector increased from 21.7 per cent
(1969-70) to 43.3 per cent (2001-02).
In the last 10 years, the pace of
structural transformation of state
economy has accelerated and the
state is set on a high growth trajectory.
robust growth
As a result of the robust growth
recorded in Services Sector, the share
of Services Sector in state GDP further strengthened to 54.6 per cent in
2011-12 and that of Agriculture & Allied Sector decreased to 16.7 per cent.
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The composition of State GDP thus
shows, that the share of Agriculture
& Allied Sector is continuously declining, whereas the share of Services
Sector is continuously increasing.
The same trend in structural
transition has been pointed out in
the national economy. The share of
Agriculture & Allied Sector in the national GDP has also decreased from 19
per cent in 2004-05 to 14.1 per cent in
2011-12 whereas the share of Services
Sector has increased from 53 per cent
in 2004-05 to 58.4 per cent in 2011-12.
major share in GDP
The rise in the Services Sector’s share
in GDP marks a structural shift in
the state economy and takes it closer
to the fundamentals of a developed
economy (in the developed economy,
the Industry and Service sectors contribute a major share in GDP while
agriculture accounts for a relatively
lower share).
The Services Sector with the
robust growth rate of 13.6 and 11.6
per cent recorded during 2007-08 and
2008-09, respectively, acted as the main
catalyst for sustaining the economic
growth of the state above 8 per cent.
During 2009-10, the robust growth
of 11.7 per cent was achieved due to
high growth of Services Sector (17 per
cent) followed by Industry Sector (11.4
per cent). During 2010-11, the growth
of 8.8 per cent could be achieved in
spite of the low growth posted in
Agriculture & Allied (5.4 per cent) and
Industry (7.3 per cent) Sectors.
faster growth rate
During the period of 9th and 10th
Five-Year Plans (1997-98 to 2006-07),
the Services Sector grew at the average annual growth rate of 11 per cent.
This growth rate of Service Sector
was significantly faster than the
average annual growth recorded for
combined Agriculture and Industry
Sectors during the same period. The
growth of Service Sector GDP has
been continuously above the overall
GDP growth during this period. It
has also been more stable than the
growth of the other two sectors. The
above trend of faster and comparatively stable growth of Service Sector
as compared to other two sectors
remained on the same path throughout the period of 11th Five-Year Plan
(2007-12).
During first four years i.e. 2007-08,
2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11 of the 11th
Five-Year Plan, the Services Sector
recorded excellent growth of 13.6,
11.6, 17 and 10.8 per cent as compared
to the low and fluctuating growth of
-0.1, 7.2, -1.4 and 5.4 per cent achieved
in Agriculture and Allied Sector and
fluctuating growth of 6.6, 3.5, 11.4
and 7.3 per cent, in Industry Sector,
respectively.
The Department of Economic
& Statistical Analysis, Haryana
prepares the estimates of Gross
Domestic Product of Services Sector
annually at factor cost both at current
and constant (2004-05) prices. Accord-
The Services Sector with
the robust growth rate
of 13.6 and 11.6 per
cent recorded during
2007-08 and 2008-09,
respectively, acted as
the main catalyst for
sustaining the economic
growth of the state
above 8 per cent
ing to the Quick Estimates of 2011-12,
the State GDP from Services Sector
at current prices has been estimated
as Rs 1,55,661.07 crore in 2011-12. The
real GDP from this sector has been recorded as Rs 97,765.58 crore in 2011-12,
registering a growth of 9.7 per cent
during the year.
The good growth of 9.7 per cent
during 2011-12 is attributed to the
higher growth achieved in trade (9 per
cent), banking & insurance (28.5 per
cent) and other services (8.7 per cent)
sectors during the year. The growth
of this sector (9.7 per cent) during
2011-12 remained significantly higher
than the growth of 8.3 and 4.4 per cent
recorded in Agriculture & Allied and
Industry Sectors, respectively.
The annual growth rates of Service Sector GDP of the State were
significantly higher than the growth
rates at all India level of 10.3, 10, 10.5,
9.8 and 8.2 per cent during the first
four years of 11th Five-Year Plan.
Thus, the Service Sector of the state
performed better than that of All
India throughout the period of 11th
Five-Year Plan.
Among the four categories of Services Sector, Trade, Hotels & Restaurants is the largest group having the
highest contribution to the state GDP.
Finance, Insurance & Real Estate is
the second largest group followed by
Transport, Storage & Communication
and Community, Social & Personal
Services.
The share of Trade, Hotels &
Restaurants in the State GDP at
constant (2004-05) prices increased
from 18.4 per cent in 2007-08 to 22.1 per
cent in 2011-12. The share of Finance,
Insurance & Real Estate increased
from 13.8 per cent in 2007-08 to 15.4 per
cent in 2011-12. The contribution of
Community & Personal Services also
increased from 7.4 per cent in 2007-08
to 8.4 per cent in 2011-12.
growing sub-sectors
The Transport, Storage & Communication Sub-sector has recorded the
fluctuating growth rates of 13.9, 5.4,
9.9 and 6.8 per cent during 2007-08,
2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11, respectively. The GDP from Transport, Storage
& Communication Sub-sector at constant (2004-05) has been recorded as Rs
15,682.85 crore, registering the growth
of 8.8 per cent during the year 2011-12
according to the Quick Estimates.
The Finance and Real Estate
sub-sector has recorded fluctuating
growth rates during the first four
years (2007-08 to 2010-11) of 11th
Five-Year Plan. The real GDP from
Finance and Real Estate Services
has been worked out as Rs 27,543.16
crore with the growth of 12.7 per
cent in 2011-12 according to the Quick
Estimates.
The Community, Social & Personal Services Sub-sector has recorded
the growth rates of 7.7, 20.9, 21.1 and
2.3 per cent during 2007-08, 2008-09,
2009-10 and 2010-11, respectively. The
real GDP from Community, Social &
Personal Services Sector has been
worked out as Rs 15,027.79 crore,
recording the growth of 7.3 per cent
in 2011-12 according to the Quick
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An ideal state
in the making
The Governor, Mr Jagannath Pahadia,
addressing the members of the State
Assembly on the opening day of the
Budget session
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With people-friendly policies and efficient
work culture in place, Haryana is destined to
realise its vision of becoming an ideal state
Haryana Review Bureau
H
aryana is scaling new heights in
all the spheres of development.
With the people-friendly policies
and efficient work culture in place,
Haryana is destined to realise its
vision of an ideal state sooner than
later. This was stated by the Haryana
Governor, Mr Jagannath Pahadia, in
the Budget session of the Haryana
Vidhan Sabha.
“The state’s growth story has generated an all round interest. The credit indeed goes to the peace loving and
hard working people of the state,”
he added. The advance estimate of
GDP for 2012-13 at constant prices
is Rs 1,91,820.76 crore as against the
quick estimate of Rs 1,79,097 crore in
2011-12, recording a growth of 7.1 per
cent in 2012-13. The per capita income
of the state at current prices has been
estimated as Rs 1,23,554 in 2012-13,
recording a growth of 13.3 per cent.
The Governor highlighted the
achievements of the state government on various fronts. He, however,
expressed concern over the scarcity
of water in Haryana, and said that
the state was water stressed having
only 14 MAF of water as compared
to its requirement of 36 MAF. “The
problem is further aggravated by the
fact that the state has been deprived
of its legitimate share from the Ravi-Beas Rivers,” he added.
He said that the government was
firm in its resolve to get Haryana’s
legitimate share of water as also for
the expeditious construction of Sutlej
Yamuna Link Canal. Members of the
technical appraisal committee of the
Union Ministry of Water Resources
have already given clearance for
Lakhwar Vyasi Dam and the work
will start shortly.
Environmental clearance for Renuka Dam is also at an advanced stage.
The state government is also pursuing the matter regarding Kishau
Dam project and it is hoped that the
governments of Uttrakhand and Him-
achal Pradesh will reach an agreement in this regard at the earliest.
Construction of a dam on Kaushalya River has already been
completed. The NCR Water Supply
Channel is complete and is already
supplying water for Gurgaon town.
Water conservation and its efficient
management being a priority of the
state government, steps are being
taken to reduce the conveyance losses
in the canal network by rehabilitating
old minors and canals.
About 150 channels have been
rehabilitated during the current financial year. The major work of rehabilitation of Barwala Branch costing
Rs 26.9 crore is also near completion.
More than 7,500 watercourses have
also been identified for rehabilitation
and 2,530 watercourses have already
been rehabilitated. During the
current financial year, Rs 118 crore
has been spent on completion of 73
new and 59 ongoing flood control and
drainage schemes across the state.
“The Samman Pension of freedom
fighters, their widows, unmarried
unemployed daughters and disabled
unmarried unemployed sons has
been increased to Rs 20,000 with effect
from August 15, 2012,” he said.
PROVIDING QUALITY Power
While referring to the issue of power,
Mr Pahadia said that his government
was committed to providing quality
power supply to all the consumers by
increasing the power generation, and
strengthening the transmission and
distribution system. To achieve this,
concrete steps have been taken to add
generation capacity in public and
private sector and to make commensurate investments in transmission
and distribution network.
On an average, 1,068 lakh units
are being supplied everyday in the
current financial year as against 578
lakh units in 2004-05. In the last eight
years, 340 new substations have been
constructed, capacity of 574 existing
substations augmented and 4,994 kms
Highlights
Haryana has outperformed
all the states in the country in
mobilising financial resources
during the 11th Five Year Plan.
n As against the national average
mobilisation of 92.5 per cent of
the projections of the 11th Five
Year Plan by the states, Haryana was able to mop up resources to the extent of 192 per cent
of the projected mobilisation,
records the Working Group
on State Financial Resources
for the 11th Plan set up by the
Planning Commission.
n The advance estimate of GDP
for 2012-13 at constant prices is
Rs 1,91,820.76 crore as against
the quick estimate of Rs
1,79,097crore in 2011-12, recording a growth of 7.1 per cent in
2012-13.
n The per capita income of the
state at current prices has been
estimated as Rs 1,23,554 in 201213, recording a growth of 13.3
per cent.
n The state has again been awarded the “Krishi Karman Award”
on January 15, 2013 for the
highest productivity of wheat
in the country for 2011-12.
n More than 60 per cent of the
country’s export of basmati
rice is from Haryana.
n Farmers are getting a remunerative price for their produce.
In Rabi 2012, the state procured
87.16 lakh MT of wheat, which
is an all time record, registering an increase of 17.88 lakh
MT (25.81 per cent) over the last
year.
n In Kharif 2012, the state procured 38.46 lakh MT of paddy,
which is also an all time record,
registering an increase of 8.8
lakh MT (29.67 per cent) over
the last year. The government is
providing subsidy on certified
seeds to motivate farmers to
increase both productivity and
production.
n
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Panipat Thermal Power Plant
of new transmission lines laid.
Renewable energy
The state government has created
an enabling environment for investment in renewable energy sources.
Six biomass power projects of 63
MW capacity are being set up by the
Independent Power Producer (IPP).
Of these, two projects of about 20 MW
are in a final stage of completion.
For generation of power from
industrial waste, 11 projects of 24.95
MW capacity through cogeneration route have been set up in the
industries and four projects of 12.6
MW capacity are under installation.
Haryana has been awarded the best
state nodal agency in the country for
installation of solar water heating
systems for 2011-12.
Three Continuous Ambient Air
Quality Monitoring Stations have
been set up by the Haryana State
Pollution Control Board at Gurgaon,
Panchkula and Rohtak and they have
started generating ambient air quality data. The Haryana State Pollution
Control Board has started the online
processing of consent to establish
and consent to operate applications
since January, 2013.
Land records
The Governor said that an ambitious
project of modernisation of land records was being implemented under
the National Land Records Modernisation Programme. This will help
make a qualitative change in the land
records management.
The state received the CSI-Nihilent
e-Governance Award 2011-12 under
the project category-G2G, for its land
records project-Dynamic Integration of Property Registration, Land
Records and Cadastral Maps.
Investment
Notwithstanding the market uncertainties and volatility at international
and national levels, an investment
of Rs 61,000 crore has been catalysed
since 2005. Besides, an investment of
about Rs 97,000 crore is also in the
pipeline. The total exports from the
state have increased from Rs 48,530
crore during 2010-11 to Rs 54,991
crore during 2011-12, registering an
increase of more than 13 per cent.
Land Acquisition & R&R Policy
The government has further improved its Land Acquisition and R&R
Policy, which has already become a
model throughout the country. ‘Land
Pooling Scheme’ has been incorporated in the Land Acquisition and
R&R Policy since August, 2012. The
landowning farmers can now opt to
become partners in the development
process.
Agriculture
Haryana has again been awarded
“Krishi Karman Award” by the President of India on January 15, 2013 for
the highest productivity of wheat in
the country for 2011-12 i.e. 5,182 kg per
hectare. Food grains production has
reached a record level of 183.42 lakh
tonnes during 2011-12. The production
of wheat and rice has reached an all
time high of 130.69 lakh tonnes and
37.59 lakh tonnes, respectively. The
government is providing subsidy on
certified seeds to motivate farmers
to increase both productivity and
production.
Mr Pahadia said that more than
15.61 lakh soil health cards had been
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distributed to the farmers to promote
a balanced use of fertilisers. Gypsum is being provided to farmers on
subsidised rates for reclamation of
degraded alkali soil. Green manuring
is being promoted in a big way to
improve organic contents of soil.
The government has done away
with the stamp duty chargeable
under the Indian Stamp Act, 1899, in
respect of instruments executed by
the agriculturists in favour of commercial banks for securing loans for
agricultural purposes.
Co-operatives
More than 35,000 co-operative societies with their membership exceeding
57 lakh are functioning in Haryana.
The co-operative banks have disbursed loans amounting to Rs 6,833.67
crore during the current year. The
co-operative banks are in the process
of implementing Core Banking Solutions (CBS) under the guidance of
NABARD for swift transfer of funds
and for making transactions from
anywhere across the country.
Mr Pahadia said that it was a
matter of pride for the state that the
Shahabad Co-operative Sugar Mills
had received the first prize at the national level for technical efficiency in
other recovery area for the crushing
season 2011-12. The Primary Agriculture Co-operative Society (PACS),
Silani, in district Jhajjar, has received
President’s Award for outstanding
performance.
“The government proposes to
establish a State Livestock Mission
to meet the challenge of doubling
milk production by 2020 and requirement of growth in other livestock
products,” he said. The state has
made significant improvement in
milk production. To further realise
the potential by accelerated genetic
improvement of livestock, the government has planned to increase the
coverage of artificial insemination
from 63 per cent to 90 per cent in the
next five years.
Education
Haryana is the first state in the country to implement the Centrally-sponsored pilot National Vocational
Education Qualification Framework
(NVEQF) project in schools which
aims at enhancing the employability
of youth through competency-based
modular vocational courses.
The Governor said that the Haryana School Teacher Selection Board
had started the process of recruiting
9,870 primary school teachers and
nearly 14,000 post graduate teachers.
Now schooling facilities are available
within a radius of one km and three
km at primary and middle schools,
respectively. A household survey
of children has been carried out to
identify drop-out and out-of-school
children for ensuring 100 per cent
enrollment as per RTE Act requirements.
He said that the Haryana Government was implementing two flagship
national programmes, namely, the
Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and the
Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) with a view to providing
various inputs for ensuring education
of reasonable quality, universalizing
elementary education, providing easy
access to secondary education, providing adequate infrastructure etc.
A separate cadre of teachers for
Mewat district has been created as
a long term solution to the chronic
problem of vacancies in the district.
A state level school for teachers’
education of international standard
is also coming up at Silani Kesho,
Jhajjar.
Human resource development, upgradation of laboratories, compulsory computer education, organisation
of science exhibitions and educational tours, and setting up of smart
class rooms and language labs are a
few innovative steps taken towards
achieving quality improvement in
college education.
The government has also decided
to establish the Haryana Institute of
Education, Training and Research at
Jind and National Law University at
Sonipat. The Haryana Private Technical Educational Institution (Regulation of Admission and Fee) Act, 2012
has been enacted to regulate admissions and fees of technical courses
run by private technical educational
institutions in the state.
Extension campus of IIT Delhi
in the Rajiv Gandhi Education City,
Highlights
The exports from the state have
increased from Rs 48,530 crore
in 2010-11 to Rs 54,991 crore in
2011-12, registering an increase
of more than 13 per cent.
n More than 15.61 lakh soil health
cards have been distributed
to the farmers to promote a
balanced use of fertilisers.
n The State Advised Price of early, mid and late maturing varieties of sugarcane has been fixed
at Rs 276, Rs 271 and Rs 266 per
quintal, respectively during the
current crushing season.
n Under the National Agriculture
Insurance Scheme, 6.3 lakh
farmers have already been
covered so far.
n The government has done away
with the stamp duty chargeable
under the Indian Stamp Act,
1899, in respect of instruments
executed by the agriculturists
in favour of commercial banks
for securing loans for agricultural purposes.
n The government is also establishing a Horticulture Bio-Technology Centre at Shamgarh,
Karnal, for production of potato micro tubers through tissue
culture technologies.
n A new scheme on pesticide
residue is being implemented
to mitigate the effects of pesticides on fruits and vegetables.
n Under the National Horticulture Mission, three new
projects have been approved for
2012-13. These are, the Centre
for Subtropical Fruits (CSTF) at
Ladwa, Kurukshetra; Integrated Bee Development Centre
(IBDC) at Murthal, Sonipat; and
Flower Project at CCS HAU,
Hisar.
n An International Horticulture Market is being set up at
Ganaur in Sonipat. The market
is being positioned as a potential hub for fruits, flowers and
vegetables from all over
the country.
n
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Kundli, National Institute of Design
(NID) in Kurukshetra, National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)
in Pinjore, Government Engineering
Colleges in Jhajjar and Rewari districts are being set up for enhancing
skill development capacity. The Indian Institute of Management is being
established over 200 acres in Rohtak.
The Central Institute of Plastic Engineering and Technology (CIPET) will
soon move to its new premises on the
campus of the Deenbandhu Chhotu
Ram University of Science & Technology, Murthal.
Sports
Mr Pahadia said that the Sports
Policy of the government has yielded
outstanding results. Out of the six
medals won by India in the London
Olympics, four were bagged by sportspersons of Haryana. The government has now decided to give cash
awards to Paralympic sportspersons
also at par with other sportspersons.
Sports and Physical Aptitude Test
(SPAT) has been very successful in
attracting children towards sports.
With a view to strengthening the
sports infrastructure in the state, the
government is constructing 227 Rajiv
Gandhi Gramin Khel Parisars, out of
which, 158 Parisars have already been
completed.
Panchayati Raj Institutions
A number of initiatives have been
taken for the empowerment of
Panchayati Raj Institutions, creation
of social and economic infrastructure in the villages and uplift of the
rural poor. The Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is being
converged with schemes of other line
departments to ensure creation of
durable assets in the villages. During
the current financial year (up to
December, 2012), Rs 20,243 crore has
been spent under MGNREGS.
Health
It is for the first time that Infant Mortality Rate in Haryana has decreased
by four points within one year
according to the Sample Registration
System (SRS) 2011. This has been
possible due to certain strategic inter-
HARYANA REVIEW APRIL 2013
ventions like opening of 13 Sick New
Born Care Units (SNCUs), strengthening of immunisation programme
and introduction of new born care
facilities at delivery points and
home-based post natal care.
The Governor said that Haryana
was the third state in the country
to start the Pentavalent Vaccine. A
special initiative has been launched
for anaemia prevention and control
by testing 11.7 lakh school children
and 34,792 college girls. In order
to strengthen the entire range of
health services in urban areas, particularly urban slums, the government is planning to launch the State
Urban Health Mission.
The government has imposed
a ban on gutkah and panmasala
containing tobacco and nicotine as
ingredients. Food and Safety Act has
been made operational and registration and licensing has commenced
for all food business operators.
Four medical colleges are being
set up in different parts of the state.
The Outdoor Patient Department
(OPD) at AIIMS-II in Jhajjar has become functional since November 24,
2012. The National Cancer Institute
is also being set up in AIIMS-II.
Infrastructure
The extension of Delhi metro from
Mundka to Bahadurgarh has been
taken up for execution at a project
cost of Rs 1,991 crore. A Metro Link
having 5.1 km length at a project cost
of Rs 1,088 crore is being implemented through M/s Rapid Metro Gurgaon Ltd. which will provide connectivity from Sikanderpur Station
in Gurgaon to National Highway
No. 8 (NH-8). Development of Metro
Link from Sikanderpur Station to
Sector-56, Gurgaon is likely to be
commissioned by September, 2015.
Special Economic Zones
Four Special Economic Zones (SEZs)
have become functional in the IT/
ITES sector in Haryana and licenses
have been granted for establishment
of 35 IT/Cyber Parks. Also, two
Regional Rapid Transit Systems
(RRTS) Corridors, namely, Delhi-Gurgaon-Rewari-Alwar (158 kms)
and Delhi-Sonipat-Panipat (111 kms)
Haryana accounts for 37 per cent
of production of two-wheelers in
the country
are to be developed on priority basis.
Industries
The state government has declared
2013 as the Year of ‘Industrial Development and Employment’. It has
adopted the strategy for establishment of Common Facility Centres
(CFCs) in public-private-partnership
mode under the cluster development
scheme in order to support the micro, small and medium enterprises.
A number of infrastructure development initiatives have also been
planned under the Delhi Mumbai
Industrial Corridor project. The
government has comprehensively
revised and notified the “Haryana
Minor Mineral Concession, Stocking
and Transportation of Minerals and
Prevention of Illegal Mining Rules,
2012”.
The Governor said that the Haryana Government had taken several
steps to ensure industrial safety and
health of workers at their workplace
and provide social security to the
organised as well as unorganised
workers.
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Highlights
A National Horticulture
Pavilion is also being planned
on this campus to foster robust
forward and backward linkages.
n Four Special Economic Zones
have already become functional in the IT/ITES sector in
Haryana and licenses have been
granted for establishment of 35
IT/Cyber Parks.
n Two Regional Rapid Transit
Systems Corridors, namely, Delhi-Gurgaon-Rewari-Alwar (158
kms) and Delhi-Sonipat-Panipat
(111 kms) are to be developed on
priority basis.
n ‘Major Accident Hazard
Control Units’ at Panipat and
Gurgaon, and two ‘Hygiene
Laboratories’ are being set up.
n It is for the first time that Infant
Mortality Rate in Haryana has
decreased by four points within
one year according to the Sample Registration System (SRS)
2011.
n A special initiative has been
launched for anaemia prevention and control by testing 11.7
lakh schoolchildren and 34,792
college girls.
n During the tenure of the present government, 3,712.80 MW
generation capacity has already
been added in the state.
n The government is supplying
1,068 lakh units on an average
daily basis to the consumers in
the current year as against 578
lakh units in 2004-05.
n In the last eight years, 340
new substations have been
constructed, capacity of 574
existing substations has been
augmented and 4,994 km of new
transmission lines have been
laid.
n During the current financial
year, Rs 118 crore have been
spent on completion of 73 new
and 59 ongoing flood control
and drainage schemes across
the state.
n
Public health
Reiterating the commitment of the
state government to provide adequate piped drinking water in all
the villages and towns with special
focus on desert and drought-prone
districts and Mewat, the Governor
said that the Rajiv Gandhi Drinking
Water Augmentation Project for
Mewat had been implemented.
Central assistance and loans from
the National Bank for Agriculture
and Rural Development and the
National Capital Region Planning
Board (NCRPB) have been arranged
for augmentation of water supply
and improvement of distribution
system in critical areas of Rewari
and Mahendragarh districts. The
drinking water supply and sewerage
facilities are being improved in 17
towns in NCR.
Besides, a project of storm-water drainage for Sonipat has been
approved by the (NCRPB). Under
the National River Conservation
Programme, two projects for improvement of sewerage facilities and
construction of sewage treatment
plants in Sonipat and Panipat have
also been approved.
A drinking water project costing
Rs 95 crore for Sonipat town based
on Ranney well scheme is under
implementation.
Detailed Project Reports for
augmentation of water supply
and sewerage facilities in Ambala
and Bhiwani (Phase-II) have been
approved. Under the 13th Finance
Commission grant, 11 projects for
augmentation of water supply in
Shivalik area and southern Haryana
have been approved.
Law and order
Mr Pahadia said that the law and
order situation in the state was
peaceful. The government is paying
focused attention to modernisation
of police force to enhance its operational effectiveness and improve the
safety and security of the people.
The Governor concluded his
address by reiterating the resolve of
his government to continue to work
for an inclusive and sustainable
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Haryana Review Bureau
D
etermined to achieve a balanced
growth in the state so that all
regions prosper, the Haryana Government is undertaking projects for the
all-round development of the state.
Refuting the allegation of regional
bias leveled by the opposition, the
Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh
Hooda, detailed out the facts to prove
his point during the Budget session of
the Haryana Vidhan Sabha.
The Chief Minister said that a
number of projects had been initiated in various districts of the state.
For example, the National Institute
of Fashion Design is coming up in
Panchkula; National Institute of Design in district Kurukshetra; Kalpana
Chawla Medical College, involving
an investment of crores of rupees, is
being set up in Karnal.
women's medical college
A women medical college has been set
up at the Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila
Vishwavidyalaya and this is the first
women medical college in public
sector after independence of the country. Similarly, ESI Medical College,
involving an investment of Rs 1,000
crore, has been set up at Faridabad,
whereas the YMCA institute has been
upgraded to a university.
Moving on to Mewat, Mr Hooda
said that a medical college named
after Shaheed Hasan Khan Mewat,
a martyr of 1857, was being set up
at a cost of Rs 700 crore. Also, Rajiv
Gandhi Drinking Water Ranney Well
Water Scheme has been implemented.
A Defence University would come
up in district Gurgaon. A Sainik
School has already been set up in Rewari, where the regional centre of the
MDU has also been started. He said
that it was at Bawal in district Rewari
that an agricultural college was closed
by the previous government, which
would now become functional. Also, a
Central University has been set up in
district Mahendragarh.
He said that a University of
Animal Sciences named after Lala
Lajpat Rai had been opened in Hisar
and it was the third university in the
district. In district Rohtak, the Pt B
D Sharma PGIMS has been upgrad-
Balanced
growth
sans bias
The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder
Singh Hooda, has taken strong exception to
the opposition allegation of regional bias in
development of the state
ed to University of Health Sciences,
and soon an IIM would also come up.
Similarly, AIIMS-II is being set up in
district Jhajjar. In Sirsa, while the
previous government had constructed a couple of rooms in the name of
Chaudhary Devi Lal University, his
government spent crores of rupees to
develop it, Mr. Hooda added.
The state government has implemented many progressive policies.
With a view to grooming budding
sports talent in rural areas, 227
Rajiv Gandhi Sports Stadia are to be
developed and out of these, 158 have
already been constructed. Also, 780
coaches would be appointed to groom
the players. The government has also
implemented the policy of ‘Padak
Lao-Pad Pao’. Outstanding sportspersons have been given jobs as Deputy
Superintendents of Police.
As many as 20 lakh children participated in the Sports and Physical
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nounced during the last year of their
tenure. Contrary to it, the present
government has increased the rate
of sugarcane by a total of Rs 159 per
quintal so far during its tenure.
Similarly, in case of wheat, the
previous government increased its
MSP by Rs 80 per quintal, whereas the
present government has made a total
increase of Rs 720 per quintal. The
rate of cotton is Rs 3,900 under his
government, whereas it was Rs 1,960
during the previous government.
Law-and-order situation
The Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh
Hooda, replying to discussion of Governor's
address in the Haryana Vidhan Sabha
Aptitude Test (SPAT) during this year.
Under this ambitious programme,
scholarships of Rs 1,500 and Rs 2,000
are being given to the children between the age groups of 8-14 years and
14-19 years, respectively. A sum of Rs
10 crore has been earmarked for the
purpose. Mr Hooda said that the Central Government was also considering
implementing this scheme.
While adding that the state government was implementing various
programmes for all sections of the
society, he said that commissions
for Scheduled Castes, human rights,
women, and children have been set up
and Lokayukta has been appointed.
He said that 20.63 lakh persons were
being benefited under various social
security pensions.
Dropout rate falls
While referring to the issue of
literacy raised by the Opposition, Mr
Hooda said that as a result of various
incentive-based schemes, the dropout
rate had fallen in the state. In primary classes, the rate was 12.66 per
cent when the present government
assumed office in 2005, but now it was
only 1 per cent. Similarly, in upper
primary classes, it has reduced from
24.51 per cent to merely 2 per cent. As
many as 19.70 lakh children belonging
to Scheduled Caste, Backward Classes-A and BPL families are getting
scholarships ranging from Rs 75 to Rs
400 from Classes I to XII.
Referring to Human Development
Index, Mr Hooda said that Haryana
fell in medium category; whereas the
national average was 0.467, Haryana
was at 0.552 as against 0.527 of Gujarat, 0.380 of Uttar Pradesh, 0.376 of
Jharkhand, 0.375 of Madhya Pradesh,
0.367 of Bihar and 0.359 of Chhattisgarh.
RESOLVING WATER DISPUTE
Mr Hooda also offered to settle inter-state water dispute with Punjab by
sitting across the table, provided they
gave Haryana its due share of water.
He also reiterated his commitment to
ensure that due share of state’s water
reached Southern Haryana and added
that the BML Hansi Butana Link
Canal had already been constructed.
Referring to the issue of Sutlej Yamuna link (SYL) Canal he said that it was
the priority of his government and he
would try to get it resolved out of the
court.
While referring to the issue of
giving remunerative prices to the
farmers for their produce, Mr Hooda
said that the government had paid
even the arrears of sugarcane left by
the previous government. The rate of
sugarcane was not increased by the
then government from 1999 to 2004
and a hike of merely Rs 7 was an-
While referring to the issue of law
and order, Mr Hooda said that immediately after assuming office in 2005,
he had directed the police to ensure
registration of FIRs for each case
whereas these were not registered
during the tenure of the previous
government.
He said that it was the result of
improved law and order situation that
investment in the state had increased
considerably. Before the year 2005,
there was an investment of Rs 41,000
crore. During the tenure of the
present government, an investment
of Rs 61,000 crore has been received
and that of about Rs 1 lakh is in the
pipeline.
He said that when he assumed office of Chief Minister in 2005, the economic, social, political and intellectual structure of the state was shattered.
He regretted that the opposition in the
state did not cooperate in the process
of development which had been ushered in by the present government to
transform its economy. He said that in
every session, the opposition had been
behaving in a similar manner and
added that a mindless opposition is a
hindrance in progress. He also criticised the opposition saying, “They are
the dark past; we are the bright future
of Haryana.”
The Chief Minister concluded his
reply by reciting a couplet,
“Woh Jinko Gaon Ka Rehbar Mana
Tha Kabhi,
Unka Kirdar Toh Rahjano Se Bhi
Bura Nikla.
Hum Yeh Nahi Kehte Ki Is Zameen
Ko Jannat Bana Diya Hamne,
Magar Kuchh Khar Zaroor Kam
Huye Hain, Guzre Jahan Se Hum.” g
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to register cases within 24 hours
against the culprits involved in rape
and molestation cases, he added. The
Chief Minister said that his government was fully committed to ensuring complete safety and protection of
women in the state.
In reply to four calling attention
notices which had been clubbed into
one, relating to issues pertaining to
crime against women - particularly
rape, molestation, eve-teasing and
also chain snatching, the Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Mr Randeep
Singh Surjewala, said that a four-digit women helpline number '1091' had
been activated to provide instant
help to women in distress. Police
Control Room vans, exclusively
staffed by woman police officials, had
been introduced, Surjewala added.
Nutritional status improves
Fast-track
courts
for women
Swati Sethi
D
etermined to curb cases of
violence against women, the
Haryana Government has taken a
series of steps, including appointment of a lady officer of the rank of
Inspector General of Police, to assist
the ADGP, Crime, in tackling cases
of crime against women. Besides,
21 Fast-Track Courts (FTCs) have
been set up for speedy trial in cases
of heinous crimes against women,
the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder
Singh Hooda, said while replying to
a question in the Budget session of
the Haryana Vidhan Sabha.
Directions have been issued
While replying to a calling attention
notice, the Women and Child Development Minister, Mrs Geeta Bhukkal
told the Assembly that the holistic
strategies adopted by the government had resulted in substantial
improvement in nutritional status
of children. The Grade-I children,
suffering from mild malnutrition,
was 32.90 per cent, which was very
close to normal grade, the Minister
said. Therefore, a total of 89.64 per
cent children are in normal or very
close to normal grade, whereas in
1991-92, 77.86 per cent children were
in this category.
10 elephant sheds set up
“The state government has set up 10
sheds for elephants at Elephant Rehabilitation Centre, Yamunanagar,”
the Environment Minister, Capt Ajay
Singh Yadav, told Haryana Assembly.
He said 20 elephants could be
accommodated in these sheds. Two
deep tubewells have been installed
for providing water for drinking
and bathing of elephants. In reply
to another question, he said that
Rs 1.1 crore had been spent for the
upkeep of Sultanpur National Park,
Gurgaon; Kalesar National Park and
Wildlife Sanctuary, Yamunanagar;
Bir Shikargarh Wildlife Sanctuary,
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Randeep Singh Surjewala
Geeta Bhukkal
Panchkula; Khol-hi-Raitan Wildlife
Sanctuary, Panchkula; Chhilchhila
Wildlife Sanctuary, Kurukshetra;
Nahar Wildlife Sanctuary, Rewari;
Abubshehar Wildlife Sanctuary,
Sirsa; Bhindawas Wildlife Sanctuary,
Jhajjar; Khaparwas Wildlife Sanctuary, Jhajjar; Sarswati Conservation
Reserve, Kaithal; and Bir-Baraban
Conservation Reserve, Jind.
With a view to meeting the shortage of staff in veterinary hospitals,
the government would soon recruit
88 veterinary surgeons and 1,034
animal attendants, said the Animal
Husbandry and Dairying Minister,
Mr Paramvir Singh, while replying to a question. He said that the
process for filling up 1,650 posts of
sweeper-cum-chowkidar would be
taken up in 2013-14.
13,969, out of which 1,965 buildings
had been regularised which were
in existence immediately before
the commencement of the Punjab
Scheduled Roads and Controlled
Areas Restriction of Unregulated
Development (Haryana Amendment)
Act, 2009. He said that regularisation
charges of Rs 11,23,75,645 had been
recovered from regularisation of
1,965 such buildings.
Rs 9,628.5 cr FDI received
Haryana had received Foreign
Direct Investment (FDI) of Rs 9,628.5
crore from April 1, 2005 till date, Mr
Hooda said. He said that the state
had benefited in terms of generation
of direct and indirect employment,
opportunities for setting up support
and ancillary units, technological
upgradation and several other spillover effects. This had also contributed to increase in revenue of state
exchequer and overall development
of the state, he added.
While replying to another question, Mr Hooda said that the number
of buildings existing in the limit of
local authorities along scheduled
roads as on February 15, 2013 was
Measures to control pollution
The state government is taking all
possible measures for controlling
pollution in rivers Markanda and
Ghaggar. The government was conscious of its duties, said Capt Ajay
Singh Yadav.
He said that it was a fact that untreated and partially treated effluent
from industrial units located at Kala
Amb in Himachal Pradesh was being
discharged into Markanda River, a
tributary of River Ghaggar, which
was causing pollution in Ghaggar.
"The Bio Chemical Oxygen
Demand (BOD) value of Jattanwala
Nallah falling in Markanda river
ranges from 420-520 mg per litre and
the BOD value in the water of Markanda river ranges from 106-385 mg
per litre as against the permissible
limit of three mg per litre," said Mr
Yadav.
The Haryana State Pollution
Control Board has taken up the
matter with the Chairman, Central
Pollution Control Board, from time
to time requesting him to issue
Capt. Ajay Singh Yadav
necessary directions to the state of
Himachal Pradesh and Himachal
Pradesh Pollution Control Board to
control pollution in river Ghaggar.
Deadline for CETPs
The Haryana State Industrial and
Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) has given deadline
up to June 30, 2017 for the construction of Common Effluent Treatment
Plants (CETPs) in their industrial areas and Industrial Model Townships
depending upon the development of
industries and generation of industrial effluent.
This information was given by
the Environment Minister, Capt Ajay
Singh Yadav, in the Haryana Assembly during question hour. He said
that for the completion of second
CETP in Sector 29, Part-II, Panipat,
the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has given deadline
up to December, 2015.
Old age pension up
The Women and Child Development
Minister, Mrs Geeta Bhukkal, told
the Assembly that old age allowance
in Haryana had been raised to Rs 600
per month from existing Rs 550 per
month, thus benefiting over 9.83 lakh
beneficiaries. She said that this enhanced pension would be admissible
from April 1, 2013. At present, more
than 12.87 lakh beneficiaries are
getting old age allowance and out of
them, more than 2.92 lakh are getting
it at the rate of Rs 700 per month. g
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Haryana to set up
infra board
Swati Sethi
The Budget session of the Haryana
Vidhan Sabha passed 10 bills, including the Haryana Development and
Regulation of Urban Areas (Amendment) Bill for setting up the Haryana Infrastructure Development
Board. The bill aims at evolving
a multi-disciplinary techno-legal
financial institution for promotion
of infrastructure development with
professionals from administration,
engineering, town planning, legal
and finance cadres.
The government decided to set up
the board as a dedicated agency to
encourage private sector investment
in infrastructure projects through
innovative development and financial structuring of infrastructure
projects for implementation in public-private partnership mode.
Section 3AA is proposed to be introduced for the constitution of the
Board, while sub-section 7 of section
3A is proposed for amendment to
enable transfer of amount collected
under the fund vested with the director of the Board.
Private varsities bill passed
The Haryana Private Universities
(Amendment) Bill has been passed
to convert an ordinance which was
promulgated to incorporate the
name of the Shree Guru Gobind
Singh Tricentenary University in
district Gurgaon. Five proposals
were received under the Haryana
Private Universities Act for establishment of Shree Guru Gobind
Singh Tricentenary University in
district Gurgaon, Jagan Nath University at Bahadurgarh, G D Goenka
University, Sohna Road, Gurgaon,
K.R. Mangalam University, Sohna
Road, Gurgaon and SRM University,
Sonipat to impart instructions and
provide higher education in various
streams.
Appropriation bill voted
The Haryana Appropriation Bill,
for Rs 75,093 crore for 2013-14 has
been passed to provide the appropriation out of the consolidated fund of
Haryana of all moneys required to
meet the grants made by the Legislative Assembly and expenditure
charged on the Consolidated Fund
of the state but not exceeding, in
any case, the amount shown in the
statement previously laid before the
House.
No to plastic carry bags
The Haryana Non-Biodegradable
Garbage (Control) Amendment Bill
has been passed to provide for challaning and compounding in view
of usage of plastic carry bags. The
issues and challenges of maintaining clean civic conditions are being
addressed by necessary legislations
as well as by creating awareness
among residents. The wide usage of
plastic carry bags made of non-biodegradable material is one of the
major causes of civic pollution,
particularly in urban areas.
Recruitment board soon
The Haryana Police (Amendment)
Bill has been passed to constitute
state level Police Recruitment Board
and deals with matters concerning
tenure, appointments, terms and
conditions related to the Board. The
amendment would further enable
the prescription and notification of
rules or regulations which would
govern the overall functioning of
the state level Police Recruitment
Board/District Level Police Recruitment Board/Committee. The constitution of the Board was necessitated
to conduct recruitment through a
transparent process as stated in the
Haryana Police Act, 2007. Bill to strengthen co-ops
The Haryana Cooperative Societies (Amendment) Bill, 2013 is
considered to be a major initiative
to strengthen and reinvigorate
the cooperative sector in the state.
The amendment in the Act aims at
bringing it in consonance with the
Constitution (97th Amendment)
Act, 2011.The bill has been passed to
amend the provisions of the Haryana Cooperative Societies Act, 1984,
for incorporation and regulation of
cooperative societies based on the
principles of democratic member
control, members’ economic participation and autonomous functioning.
Relief to veggie growers
The Haryana Rural Development
(Amendment) Bill has been passed to
give relief to the growers of vegetables and fruits and the public by
reducing rural development fee on
all vegetables and fruits from two
per cent to one per cent with effect
from September 1, 2012.
Labour welfare bill approved
The Punjab Labour Welfare Fund
(Haryana Amendment) Bill has been
passed for making a provision for
the post of vice chairperson in the
Punjab Labour Welfare Fund Act for
effective and smooth functioning of
the Haryana Labour Welfare Board
and also to assist the Chairperson,
and in his absence, to preside over a
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Rail Budget
rains gains
for Haryana
Besides three new railway lines out of the
22 announced in the Railway Budget, Haryana has got a railway coach manufacturing
factory, a welding plant, rail link to Mewat
and some new trains
Haryana Review Bureau
H
aryana stands to gain a lot from
the Railway Budget for 2013-14
presented by the Railway Minister,
Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal. Besides
three new railway lines out of the 22
announced in the budget, Haryana
has got a railway coach manufacturing factory to be set up in Sonipat, a
welding plant for Sampla in Rohtak,
and rail link to Mewat. While Mewat
will be rail-linked for the first time
with Delhi-Alwar rail line, the Hisar-Sirsa line will connect Sirsa with
Delhi via Hisar.
The Union Railway Minister,
Mr Pawan Bansal, and MP, Mr
Deepender Hooda, in the Mainline
Electric Multiple Unit Train after it
was flagged off in Rohtak
The Haryana Vidhan Sabha has
unanimously passed a resolution
thanking the UPA Chairperson, Mrs
Sonia Gandhi, the Prime Minister,
Dr Manmohan Singh, and the Union
Railway Minister, Mr Pawan Bansal,
for announcing a number of projects
for the state. While moving the resolution, The Haryana Parliamentary
Affairs Minister, Mr Randeep Singh
Surjewala, said the Chief Minister,
Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, had met
the Prime Minister and the Railway
Minister and urged them to give
Haryana a rail coach factory which
would provide jobs to the youth. Mr
Hooda said the state government
would bear half the cost of the
project.
Hooda hails railway budget
Mr Hooda hailed the Railway Budget
and thanked Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Dr
Manmohan Singh and Mr Pawan
Bansal for giving Haryana a rail
coach manufacturing and mainte-
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nance unit at Sonipat, a flash butt
welding plant at Sampla in Rohtak
district, fulfilling the long standing
demand of rail service to Mewat
area, and some new lines.
Mr Hooda said that one of the biggest rail coach manufacturing factories would come up over 400 acres
in Sonipat district in collaboration
with the state government. Besides,
a skill development centre would be
set up in Sirsa. It would contribute
to the national skill development
programme of the government. The
Ministry of Railways plans to open
25 such centres all over the country
to impart skills to the youth in railway-related trades.
New lines and trains
Mr Hooda said that Haryana has got
in the Railway Budget three out of
the 22 new lines in category II, one
out of seven new lines in category-I
as special project, one out of five
MEMUs, two out of eight DEMUs,
one out of 14 gauge conversion projects, two out of 36 new line projects
to be completed in 2013-14, and two
out of the five electrification projects. The state also got 11 express
trains, one passenger train, three
train extensions and increase in the
frequency of four others.
He thanked Mr Bansal for
introducing three new railway
lines of Delhi-Sohna-Nuh-Firozpur
Jhirka-Alwar; Hisar-Sirsa via
Agroha and Fatehabad; and Yamunanagar-Chandigarh via Sadhaura,
Naraingarh. A new railway line
as special project to be set up in
Haryana is Rewari- Rohtak extension
up to Makrauli — acting as a Railway bypass for Rohtak city as the
Rohtak-Panipat line will be shifted
out of the city. Rohtak will become
one of the first towns to have such a
decongestion line.
survey for railway lines
He also thanked him for the announcement of survey for railway lines of Hisar-Fatehabad;
Dadri-Jharli via Jhajjar and Narwana-Uklana; and electrification of
Delhi-Rewari-Jaipur and Jakhal-Hisar railway lines.
Mr Hooda said the other projects
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Besides three new
railway lines out of the
22 announced in the
budget, Haryana has
got a railway coach
manufacturing factory
to be set up in Sonipat, a
welding plant for Sampla
in Rohtak, and rail link to
Mewat
Haryana got included doubling of
the Jakhal-Dhuri-Ludhiana railway
line; MEMU (electric train); services
of Delhi-Rohtak as replacement of
conventional service by MEMU and
DEMU services of Delhi-Kurukshetra via Kaithal; and Rohtak-Rewari.
The gauge conversion project of
Sikar-Loharu would be completed soon. The new line projects to
be completed in 2013-14 include
Jind-Bhambewa–Gohana and Gohana-Sonipat.
Besides, many new trains have
been introduced and extensions of
existing trains have been approved,
benefiting the people of the state.
The express trains include Bandra
Terminus-Hisar Express (weekly)
via Ahmedabad; Palanpur-Marwar-Jodhpur-Degana-Delhi-Firozpur
Intercity Express (daily) via Bathinda; Delhi-Sarai Rohila-Sikar Express
(bi-weekly) after gauge conversion;
Delhi-Hoshiarpur Express (Weekly); Hazrat Nizamuddin-Mumbai
AC Express (weelky) via Bhopal;
Khandwa-Bhusawal; Indore-Chandigarh Express (weekly) via Dewas; Ujjain-Guna-Gwalior-Hazrat
Nizamuddin-Kalka-Sai Nagar Shirdi
Express (bi-weekly) via Hazrat
Nizamuddin; Bhopal-Itarsi-Katra-Kalka Express (bi-weekly) via
Morinda; Kota-Jammu Tawi Express
(Weekly) via Mathura, Palwal; New
Delhi-Katra AC Express (six days a
week); and Una/Nangaldam-Hazoor
Saheb Nanded Express (Weekly) via
Anandpur Saheb, Morinda, Chandigarh, Ambala. The passenger trains
include Loharu-Sikar Passenger
(Daily) after gauge conversion.
The extension of trains include 12449/12450 Madgaon-Hazrat
Nizamuddin Express to Chandigarh; 12629/12630 Yesvantpur-Hazrat Nizamuddin Sampark Kranti
Express 2 days to Chandigarh and
54632/54633 Dhuri-Hisar/Hisar-Ludhiana passenger to Sirsa.
The trains whose frequency would be increased include
14037/14038 Delhi-Pathankot Express
3 to 6 days; 12217/12218 Kochuveli-Chandigarh Express 1 to 2 days;
12687/12688 Madurai–Dehradun/
Chandigarh Express 1 to 2 days
and 12629/12630 Yesvantpur–Hazrat Nizamuddin Sampark Kranti
Express 2 to 4 days. “Haryana has a
robust economy and we would bear
half of the expenditure on laying the
new railway lines”, Mr Hooda said.
The Chief Minister said that he
had urged the Railways Minister to
give Haryana a rail coach facility.
It would not only provide more employment opportunities to the people, but would also facilitate setting
up of many ancillary units boosting the economy of the area. With
these proposals, the long standing
demands of the people have been fulfilled, he said, adding that since the
Railway Minister had fulfilled the
aspirations of the people of state,
the state government would also
reciprocate the gesture by giving full
cooperation.
new initiatives
Mr Hooda was all praise for the
new initiatives taken by the Central
Government in the Railway Budget.
Steps like e-ticketing through mobile
phones, efforts to bring about a paradigm change in e-ticketing system,
introduction of disabled-friendly
coaches, 67 new express trains, and
27 new passenger trains and trains
like “Azadi Express” would bring
about a qualitative change in the services rendered by the Railways. He
also appreciated the decision to fill
up 47,000 vacancies for the weaker
sections and the physically challenged. The Railway Budget would
not put any burden on the common
man, and it is for the first time that
the state has got so many railway
projects.
Mr Deepender Singh Hooda,
Lok Sabha MP from Rohtak, has
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thanked Mr Bansal for providing
three new rail lines. He also thanked
Mrs Sonia Gandhi and Dr Manmohan Singh, for meeting the long
pending demands of Haryana.
The three new rail lines in
category II are (a) Delhi-SohnaNuh-Firozpur-Jhirka-Alwar (b) and
Hisar-Sirsa via Agroha and Fatehabad and (c) Yamunanagar-Chandigarh via Sadhaura, Naraingarh. Mr
Hooda said that one of the biggest
rail coach factories will be set up
over 400 acres in Sonipat district, in
collaboration with the state government. Two small plants will also be
set up – a modern signaling equipment facility at Chandigarh through
PPP mode and a flash butt welding
plant in Sampla.
Union Budget 2013-14
It will propel
growth: Hooda
skill development of youth
Besides, a skill development centre will be set up in Sirsa to impart skills to the youth in railway
related trades. This will enhance
the employability of the youth of
the state. There is also a proposal
under category I special projects, for
Rewari- Rohtak new line extension
up to Makrauli, which will serve as a
rail by-pass for Rohtak.
Mr Hooda also said that under the
category of surveys of new lines,
two surveys are proposed in Haryana- for Dadri-Jharli via Jhajjar and
Narwana-Uklana. The electric train
service between Delhi and Rohtak
and two such services between Delhi
and Kurkushetra via Kaithal; and
Rohtak and Rewari are also proposed
for Haryana.
new rail projects
The new rail line projects, which are
expected to be completed during the
next financial year are Jind-Bhambewa-Gohana and Gohana-Sonipat.
There is also a proposal for electrification of the two rail lines Delhi-Rewari-Jaipur and Jakhal-Hisar.
Sirsa Lok Sabha MP, Mr Ashok
Tanwar, has also thanked Mr Bansal
for taking care of the interests of
Haryana. He expressed his gratitude
to Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Dr Manmohan
Singh, Mr Rahul Gandhi, and the
Chief Minister for protecting the
interests of Haryana. g
The Union Finance Minister,
Mr P Chidambaram
The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr
Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has hailed
the Union Budget for 2013-14 as
investment and growth-oriented,
anti-inflationary, pro-poor and
crafted with the intent of ensuring
inclusive, equitable and sustainable development.
Reacting to the Budgetary proposals, presented by the Finance
Minister, Mr P Chidambaram, to
the Lok Sabha, Mr Hooda lauded
the proposal to allocate Rs 500
crore to start crop diversification
programme which would promote
technological innovation and encourage the farmers to choose crop
alternatives.
“It is very encouraging that this
programme would be implemented
in the original Green Revolution
states which face the problems of
stagnating yields and over-exploitation of water resources, an answer
to which lies in crop diversification”, the Chief Minister said.
Mr Hooda recalled that the
Working Group on Agriculture
Production, constituted by the
Prime Minister and headed by him,
had recommended such schemes in
the larger interest of the farming
community. Such initiatives reflect
the pro-farmer policies of the UPA
Government. He also welcomed
the proposal to carve out PMGSY-II
and allocate a portion of the funds
to the new programme which will
benefit Haryana immensely.
Greater emphasis on farm
research, higher allocation for agriculture, extension of the interest
subvention scheme, and increased
flow of credit to the farm sector
bode well for the growth of farm
economy of the country. “The farmers have responded well to the slew
of welfare measures taken by the
UPA Government by setting a new
record in the production of food
grains, and the steps outlined in
the Budget today will further boost
their confidence”, Mr Hooda added.
socio-economic objectives
Mr Chidambaram, working under
the able guidance of the UPA
Chairperson, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, and the Prime Minister, Dr
Manmohan Singh, had done well
to create the economic space and
find the resources to achieve the socio-economic objectives, Mr Hooda
said. Clarity in tax laws, a stable
tax regime and non-adversarial
tax administration would surely
attract warm response and willing
compliance.
The emphasis and higher allocation for the social sector will not
only benefit women, children, backward classes and the minorities but
would also play the great leveller
by pulling down social inequities.
Similarly, higher allocations for
health and education underscore
the commitment of the UPA Government and its concern for the
wellbeing of the masses, added Mr
Hooda.
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Change the mindset
about women: Sonia
Swati Sethi
T
he UPA Chairperson, Mrs Sonia
Gandhi gave a clarion call to the
people to eradicate the stigma of
female foeticide and crime against
women, like rape and molestation,
from the society and added that there
was a need to change the mindset of
people regarding women.
Mrs Sonia Gandhi was addressing
the first convocation of Bhagat Phool
Singh Mahila Vishwavidyalaya, Khanpur Kalan in Sonipat district, on the
occasion of International Women’s
Day. She also inaugurated India’s first
post independence women’s medical
college, Bhagat Phool Singh Government Women Medical College. The
only government women medical
college, the Lady Hardinge Medical
College, was set up in 1914.
people who graced the occasion
The Haryana Governor, Mr Jagannath Pahadia, the Chief Minister, Mr
Bhupinder Singh Hooda, the AICC
General Secretary, Mr BK Hariparsad,
a number of ministers of the Haryana Government and many MPs were
also present on the occasion.
Speaking on the occasion, Mrs
Gandhi said, “Our heads hang in
shame over incidents of rape and
crime against women. It is our collective responsibility to wash off this
stigma.”
“The UPA Government has taken
steps in this direction by making a
provision for a special Nirbhaya Fund
and an all-women bank in the Union
Budget. An amount of Rs 1,000 crore
each has been provided in the budget
for this purpose. We have made laws
against domestic violence and sexual
harassment at workplaces and soon
a new law for crime against women
would also be enacted,” she added.
She said the Haryana Government
deserved all praise for providing
opportunities to women to showcase
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cumb to any hindrance because the
nation needed them. They are lucky
for having got the opportunity to get
education in this university.
While referring to Bhagat Phool
Singh Women University, she said
that this Gurukul was started in 1936
with merely three students but, in
the last six years, it had emerged as
a magnificent complex. Journeys
of thousands of miles begin with
small steps. Most of the university’s
students hailed from rural areas and
it would certainly set an example for
social revolution and change, she
added.
steps to empower women
UPA Chairperson, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, conferring
degrees to the students. Governor Jagannath
Pahadia, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda,
Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal and Vidhan Sabha
Speaker Kuldeep Sharma are also seen in the picture
their talents and hoped that the
efforts made now would bear fruits in
future. “I would like to congratulate
the Haryana Government working
under the leadership of the Chief
Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda,
which has made special efforts for
women empowerment in the fields of
education, health and social justice,
More and more women
should take over
important positions and
education alone can
prepare them to face the
challenges of the future.
The growing number
of women in local
bodies and panchayats
has strengthened our
democracy
which has played an important role in
highlighting the talents of Haryana
women in the fields of education and
sports,” said Mrs Gandhi.
Education to prepare women
Mrs Gandhi added that more and
more women should take over
important positions, and education
alone could prepare them to face the
challenges of the future. “The growing number of women in local bodies
and panchayats has strengthened our
democracy,” she added.
She also expressed concern about
the decline in population of girls and
said that it was due to poor thinking
that this problem was being felt in the
entire country. She said that concerted efforts would have to be made to
check this problem. Therefore, it is
high time to raise voice against it.
Mrs Gandhi said that the passage
of education and success was never
easy, but the students must not suc-
The Haryana Governor, Mr Jagannath Pahadia, who is also chancellor
of the university, praised the setting
up of the Rs 1,000 crore Nirbhaya fund
and an all-women bank by the Central
Government. He also appreciated the
steps taken by the state government to
raise the status of women in Haryana.
While referring to a number of initiatives taken by the state government
for women empowerment, the Chief
Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda,
said that these included schemes like
Priyadarshini Awaas Yojna under
which 3.5 lakh houses would be
constructed in rural and urban areas
for the poor people. The ownership
would be of the woman in the family.
Parents of only girl child or children
are being given monthly pension from
the age of 45 years. Financial assistance of Rs 31,000 and Rs 11,000 is also
being given on the marriage of girls
belonging to Scheduled Castes living
below the poverty line and daughters
of widows living below the poverty
line.
Mrs Gandhi presented gold medals
to the outstanding students. As
many as 2,436 students were awarded
degrees in the convocation. Earlier,
she went around the Bhagat Phool
Singh Government Medical College
and Hospital and also interacted with
the patients to know their wellbeing.
She was also shown a documentary
on the progress and contribution of
the medical college and hospital. She
also appreciated the available medical
facilities in the medical college and
hospital. g
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The colours
of Holi...
A photo feature by Randeep Singh
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A festival for young and old
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Riding the mood
Can't do without dhol beats
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Splash in the pool of colours
Women not lagging behind
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Age is no bar
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Preparing colour that lasts
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Let's see who wins: Men and
women trying to grab kolada
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Hurrah! I got it
48 NEWS IN CAPSULE
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THE MONTH THAT WAS
Working for inclusive
Haryana: Hooda
Haryana has chosen the path of
‘Rapid Inclusive Economic Growth’
to build an inclusive Haryana-socially, culturally and economically, said
the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder
Singh Hooda, while interacting with
industrialists and media persons
at a conclave organised by a media
group to showcase investment opportunities in New Delhi.
He said, “Any vision for growth
remains a mere dream unless it is
supported by good governance and
political will. We have an excellent
track record on the law and order
front. The work force in Haryana is
diligent and hard working. The number of man days lost on the industrial front in Haryana is one of the
lowest in the country. Haryana was
one of the first states to come out
with a comprehensive and progressive labour policy.”
Haryana today has succeeded in
harnessing the progressive thrust
on industrialisation by dint of
innovative systems and pragmatic strategies, thereby becoming a
pioneering state in modern India.
The state-of-the-art infrastructure,
industry-friendly policies, responsive administration, peaceful law
and order conditions and abundant
skilled manpower make it a preferred destination for industrial
investment, he added.
Mr Hooda described Haryana as
a unique success story of social
engineering and good governance.
He said that the achievement of Haryana is a step towards realising the
dreams of our founding fathers and
a tribute to the democratic system
without any dilemma. He said that a
strong economy is a prerequisite for
inclusive growth. Today, the economy of our state is robust and on the
uptick. Industry is booming. Growth
is heading north. Exports are rising
and marshalling of resources is
excellent. This has won acclaim.
Haryana has outperformed all states
The Chief Minister,
Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda,
at a conclave in New Delhi
in mobilizing financial resources
during the 11th Five Year Plan.
Rail coach factory to
come up in Sonipat
The upcoming rail coach factory
would be set up along Jind-Sonipat
rail line near Gohana in Sonipat
district and a number of ancillary
units would also be set up in the
adjoining districts, said the Union Railways Minister, Mr Pawan
Bansal, while addressing a function
at Rohtak Railway Station, organised to flag off the Rohtak-Bahadurgarh-Delhi MEMU (electric) train
from Rohtak Railway Station.
Mr Bansal said that the Rail
Coach Factory would accelerate the
pace of development in the state
and also provide direct and indirect
employment to lakhs of people.
He said that Rohtak-Delhi MEMU
train would start daily at 7 am from
Rohtak and reach Delhi Railway
Station by 9.15 am On return, it will
start at 3.50 pm from Delhi and reach
Rohtak by 6.20 pm. MEMU train
would provide economical and faster
travelling option and have 7,500 passengers capacity on one round trip.
From Rohtak to Delhi, MEMU
train would have stoppages at stations of Delhi, Kishanganj, Vivekanand Puri, Daya Basti, Shakur Basti,
Mangolpuri, Nangloi, Mundka,
Ghevra, Bahadurgarh, Asaudah,
Rohand Nagar, Sampla, Ismaila,
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Kharawar, Asthal Bohar and Rohtak.
The minister said that the three
new rail lines of Gurgaon-SohnaNuh- Firozpur Zhirka- Alwar,
Hisar-Agroha-Fatehabad-Sirsa and
Yamunanagar-Sadhaura-Naraingarh-Chandigarh rail lines would
change the face of the state. The
work of Meham-Hansi Rail line
would start soon, he added.
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Women take part in the function organised by
the Haryana Forest Department at Pinjore
Industrial training to
16.75 lakh youths
Haryana Government has fixed a
target to impart industrial training
to 16.75 lakh youth under 12th five
year plan in the state. The Industrial
Training Minister, Mrs Geeta Bhukkal, said that about two lakh unskilled or unemployed youth would
be trained through the short term or
Modular Employable courses under
Skill Development Initiative scheme
based on Modular Employable Skills
of Government of India during
the 12th Five Year Plan through a
network of Government and Private
institutes registered as Vocational
Training Providers.
She said that department intends
to increase the present training
capacity significantly by increasing the number of Government
Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs)
as well as private ITIs and also by
increasing the intake capacity of
the existing institutes. She said that
government had earmarked a sum
of Rs 200 crore for skill development
in the budget allocation for year
2013-14.
Haryana players
bring laurels
Players of Haryana have again
brought laurels to the state by overall
winning the Gramin Khel Pratiyogita
2012-13 organised by Union Ministry
of Sports and Youth Affairs under
Panchayat Yuva Krida aur Khel
Abhiyan (PYKKA). The Director
General, Sports and Youth Affairs
Department, Mr Sudhir Rajpal, said
that Haryana had bagged 90 gold, 58
silver and 46 bronze medals in this
competition. Six groups of girls and
boys below 16 years of age participated in this competition. He said that
last year too, the state had won the
championship by bagging 37 gold, 16
silver and 22 bronze medals. g
Forest Department celebrates International Women’s Day
Taking International Women’s Day as the apt opportunity to recognise extraordinary achievements of women, the Forest Department
honoured 25 women from various districts of Haryana for playing a
role model to other women and spreading awareness on environment
along with other social issues. The programme was held on March 8 at
Forest Bhawan in Pinjore at Panchkula.
As many as 500 women from 17 districts of the state participated
in the celebrations of International Women’s Day. The Chief Guest of
the function was Additional Chief Secretary to Government, Haryana
Cooperation Department, Mrs Shakuntla Jakhu. Additional Chief Secretary, Forest Department, Mr Ramendra Jakhu, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Mr C R Jotriwal and Additional Principal Chief
Conservators of Forest, Dr Amarinder Kaur and R K Sapra, were also
present on the occasion.
Making use of the platform, many women came on the stage to
share their success stories that inspired other women present there.
The Forest Department, along with the women of Self-Help Groups
(SHGs), organised an exhibition of products of SHGs from various
districts to spread environmental awareness. Mrs Shakuntla Jakhu
spoke about gender equality. She asked men to support women in their
efforts so that very soon we could coin a new adage, “Behind every
successful woman, there is a man.”
Mr Ramendra Jakhu said that with a view to making women
partners in protecting forests, a total of 2,200 Self-Help Groups were
formed which were mostly handled by women members. Through
SHGs, women have not just become self-dependent but have also
brought a change in their socio-economic status. Principal Chief
Conservator of Forests, Mr C R Jotriwal, said that the Forest Department had initiated many schemes to empower women and make them
self-reliant.
Under the leadership of Additional Principal Chief Conservator of
Forest, Dr Amarinder Kaur, the Women Cell created in Forest Department is working successfully. Dr Kaur said that through SHGs women
had discovered their potential to lead and today many of them were
panches and sarpanches in their villages. Besides, spreading environmental awareness, these women are taking up many other social issues
like female foeticide, dowry, and drug de-addiction.
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It was Jaspreet’s
determination and
optimistic attitude that
helped her overcome
the society’s traditional
mindset against girls and
make a return to the field,
and that too with a bang Jaspreet defies odds,
is back with a bang
Saurabh Duggal
T
o resist an attack and score a
point is what Jaspreet Kaur (17)
has learned on the sports field, and
this, she has quite successfully been
able to replicate in her real life. It
was Jaspreet’s determination and
optimistic attitude that helped her
overcome the society’s traditional
mindset against girls and make a
return to the field, and that too with
a bang. A product of Shahbad hockey
centre, she helped the country’s
women’s hockey team win the World
Hockey League Round-2 held in New
Delhi last month and was adjudged
the ‘best defender’ and ‘player of the
tournament’.
Latest sensation of the Indian
women hockey, Jaspreet, who is a
regular face of the senior squad
since early 2010, remained in oblivion for almost six months, skipped
a test series and four-nation series,
before making it to the field again in
September last year.
After the Olympic qualifiers in
February last year, the pressure of
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Know Jaspreet
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Drag flicker, deep defender
and has ability to convert
penalty corners in to goals
One of the few and rare
talents in Indian women
hockey, who was picked to
represent the country in the
senior section before playing
any international tournament
in any age-group section Made her international
debut in 2010 in a test series
against Japan
Has played 53 international
matches for senior India and
two tournaments in the junior
section
A proud family
relatives for Jaspreet’s marriage
increased on her family, even though
she was just sixteen at that time.
Eventually, her father Kirpal Singh
decided to get her engaged and told
her that the hockey field was no
more for her.
“At times, you are helpless in
front of your family’s wish. But then
because of your determination and
passion, things start falling in place.
I have forgotten the entire episode as
a bad dream and now the only thing
I remember is that every time I step
in the field, I have to be my best,”
said a bright and jubilant Jaspreet.
It was Jaspreet’s mother who
came out in her daughter’s support
and stood by her. “Due to increasing pressure from relatives on us
and a proposal from a quite good
family, my husband decided for an
engagement and after that an early
marriage. Because of all this development, my daughter had to give up
her dream of following her passion,
hockey. She tried to convince her
father, but he was not ready to listen
anything. And then she started
remaining aloof,” said her mother
Baljeet Kaur.
“I started feeling the pain she
was undergoing and I decided to talk
to her father. He didn’t give a damn
to my thoughts, and so I requested Jaspreet’s coach, Baldev sir, to
intervene. With our efforts we were
able to convince my husband and he
totally dropped the idea of marriage,” she added. PROUD OF HER ACHIEVEMENTS
And now, not only her father, but the
entire Kharindwan village (around
10 km from Shahbad) takes pride
in Jaspreet’s achievement.
On her return after making the
country victorious, a large cavalcade from the village was present to
receive her at Shahbad bus stand.
About 10,000 people gathered to witness the village’s pride.
“That day I realised what Jaspreet’s stature is. In our entire
family, including the extended one,
nobody has ever got such a rousing
welcome,” said the proud father
Kirpal Singh.
“Now I realise what a blunder I
was going to do. Her achievement
has proved me wrong. And I am
thankful to God that I listened to
Baldev Sir’s advice and didn’t marry
her off. It was coach saheb, who
spotted her first and now she is back
because of him. My daughter will
play hockey till the time he wants,
and I will ensure that nothing can
stop her from doing so,” he added. g
The writer is Senior Sports
Journalist with the Hindustan
Times, Chandigarh
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The queen of seasons
descends on the canvas
The breath-taking beauty of nature during spring time has inspired many an artist from Haryana to paint their canvases in all
hues of the spectrum, capturing the joys of the season
Painting by Pinky Katyal
events like Rangoli competition, onthe-spot painting competition, flower
show, folk dance etc, are organised
by the Haryana Urban Development
Authority (HUDA) during the two-day
Spring Fest in the state. Various stalls
displaying exotic flowers of different
sizes, hues and colours are set up for
the visitors.
celebrating spring
Anjana Datta
S
pring, the queen of seasons, the
loveliest and most delightful of
all, has finally arrived. Thank God!
Neither there is a layer of chilly mist
in the morning nor is the sun beating
relentlessly upon our backs as during
the intolerable days of summer. There
is a certain mellow serenity in the air
accompanied by a gentle and fragrant
cool breeze, the birds twitter skipping
from one branch to another, nature’s
beauty is at its peak and one knows
that it is the advent of the vernal
season.
As you look at God’s plenty around
you, you are left in a state of flummox
to see the enchanting and alluring
sight of nature around you. The trees
that have shorn off its leaves during
autumn, lavishly blossom with dramatic extravagance during this time.
All the annual flowers bloom only in
spring.
visual delightS
As you walk through a garden, the
very greenness of the pristine grass
with dewdrops sparkling like tiny diamonds provides a rare visual delight.
You are greeted by a riot of crimson
coloured and scarlet red flowers, magnificent jacarandas, colourful lilies,
daffodils and hyacinths, enhancing the
beauty of the place.
In order to add spice to this already
vibrant season, a series of special
The occasion also serves as a pedestal
for some of the folk artists and craftsmen of the region to display their
works. To add an extra dose of beauty
and joy to the festival, some of the seasoned artists also come out with their
creations to depict the splendorous
botanic feast on the occasion.
“We have our own unique way of
celebrating spring,” remarks Shivani
Parmar, an artist from Ambala.
“According to Hindu lore, this festival
marks the celebration of Goddess Saraswati Puja. We all prefer to dress up
in bright colours like yellow, orange
or red, symbolising the vibrancy and
joyousness of spring,” she explains.
“Spring is a glorious time. The
season is welcomed with a variety
of events to rejoice and celebrate the
gift of this vibrant season,” remarks
Pinky Katyal, another artist based in
Gurgaon. “I make it a point to visit
various gardens to witness nature’s
glorious splendor from close quarter
and feel connected to it,” she adds.
“I am a lover of nature. The
gardens with its lush lawns, a variety
of bewitching flowers, in different
shapes, colours and fragrance, in full
bloom amid shady exotic trees and
shrubs are the cynosure of all eyes
during this time,” remarks Pinky.
“The floral spectacle is there all
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and fauna. There is hardly
any place on earth which
doesn’t offer such incredible variety of natural
splendor – the sea, lakes,
mountains, waterfalls, flowering trees and shrubs stir
the imagination of a nature
lover,” says Neeraj Mittra,
an artist from Karnal.
“And spring is the time
when nature is bedecked
with resplendent trees,
blossoming flowers and
flowing rivers – all casting
a magical spell. Imagine
waking up on a lazy Sunday morning to the cool
bracing air, trilling of birds
and the susurration of
leaves. That’s exclusive joy,
so refreshing and rejuvenating,” he exclaims.
His abstract paintings
in oil colours capturing
the vibrant shades of this
season are feast to the eyes.
Painting by Shivani Parmar As nature greatly fascinates him, most of his works
convey an unbridled joy of nature. His
through the year. But it reaches its
paintings, depicting meticulous detail
dazzling peak in spring when the
of nature in vibrant hues in rich
nature is at its salubrious best. To sacolours and bold strokes, fascinate the
vour the beauty of nature, I carry the
viewers. They show greater originalisimilar impressions on my canvases,”
ty and innovation as well as depth of
she exclaims.
technical expertise in the work. His
showcasing BEAUTY
Her paintings showcasing
spring are effervescent
frames of nature. There are
the fields with yellow stacks
of paddy lying there. There
are flowers everywhere – balsam, hibiscus, yellow trumpet-shaped flowers, marigold
and lush-green lawns to delight the viewers. These are
expressions of her mind on
Mother Nature. Like nature,
her work is vibrant, colourful and bright. The colours
and lines harmonising with
each other, allow the viewer
to weave his own narrative
along the line, as it were.
“Spring is the only time
when nature is blessed with
an infinite variety of flora
Painting by Shakti Ahlatwat
work is full of intense expressiveness
with a vibrant unity in content fully
emphasised here.
Shakti Ahlawat’s painting depicting kites on the canvas in various hues
entices the eyes. The first thing that
strikes you is the riot of colours on the
canvas. Seeing his work, you begin to
revel in his artistic motifs drawn from
spring. His work has the resonance
of familiarity. His art is an exciting
and evocative combination of colours,
brush strokes and sensitivity.
expression of artist’s mind
“Art is a deep and sincere expression
of the artist’s mind. An artist has an
obsession with reflections. Whatever
an artist sees around him, he feels it
and that sensitivity is reflected in his
work,” explains Shakti, an artist based
in Rohtak. He excels in interpreting
his mood of the season on his canvases.
A vibrant lively culture, distinctive arts and ceremonies, gentle and
friendly people, and spectacular scenic
beauty, all these give India a near
unreal image in the world. India is
a country which celebrates festivals
from all around the world with equal
joy which highlights its multicultural
aspect more than ever. So it comes
as no surprise that for spring too, the
country goes all out to rejoice! g
The writer is a freelance journalist
54 POTPOURRI
Judge Yourself
QUIZ- 8
HARYANA REVIEW APRIL 2013
“
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
The difference between the right word and
almost right word is the difference between
lightning and the lightning bug”
Answers to the quiz
are given below in
the reverse...
Q1. In which district of
Haryana are Rajdoot
motorcycles manufactured?
A) Hisar
B) Karnal
C) Ambala
D) Faridabad
Q2. In which of the following
years were all villages of
Haryana electrified?
A) 1968
B) 1970
C) 1972
D) 1976
Q3. According to
Census 2011, what is the
percentage of literacy in
Haryana?
A) 62.4 %
B) 55.8%
C) 65.7%
D) 76.4%
Q4. In which district of
Haryana the National Dairy
Research Institute
is located?
A) Sirsa
B) Kurukshetra
C) Karnal
D) Jind
Q5. Which of the following
union territories is the
capital of Haryana?
A) Chandigarh
B) Pondicherry
C) New Delhi
D) Lakshadweep
When God made
woman
When God created woman, he
was working late on the 6th day.
An angel came by and said, “Why
spend so much time on that
one?”
And the Lord answered, “Have
you seen all the specifications I
have to meet to shape her?"
“She must be washable, but
not made of plastic, have more
than 200 moving parts which
all must be replaceable and
she must function on all kinds
of food, she must be able to
embrace several kids at the same
time, give a hug that can heal
anything from a bruised knee to a
broken heart and she must do all
—Mark Twain
this with only two hands.”
The angel was impressed.
“Just two hands....impossible!”
And this is the standard model!
“Too much work for one day....
wait until tomorrow and then
complete her,” said the angel.
“I will not,” said the Lord. “I am so
close to complete this creation,
which will be the favourite of my
heart.”
“She cures herself when sick
and she can work 18 hours a day.”
The angel came nearer and
touched the woman.
“But you have made her so soft,
Lord.” “She is soft", said the Lord,
“But I have also made her strong.
You can’t imagine what she can
endure and overcome.”
The woman is indeed
marvellous!
Woman has strengths that
amazes man. She can handle
trouble and carry heavy burdens.
She holds happiness, love and
opinions. She smiles even when
she feels like screaming.
She sings when she feels like
crying, cries when she is happy
and laughs when she is afraid.
She fights for what she believes in
and stands up against injustice. g
Answers: 1. D, 2. B, 3. D, 4. C, 5. A
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