Only 27 per cent children between the ages of six months to five years are healthy in Haryana. The rest of them are anaemic and 9 per cent severely anaemic (SA).

The infant and mother death rates continue to shame Haryana with 8,862 newborn deaths registered since July 31.

Like the previous year, cotton farmers in the district are spending anxious moments following the attack of white fly on their crop.

More than 71 per cent households in Kharar village are forced to consume unfit water, while 20 per cent purchase it from water tankers and only 2 per cent get supply water at their doorstep.

Despite a blanket ban by the Supreme Court, illegal mining continues to wreck havoc in the environmentally fragile Aravalli ranges of the district.