With a view to improving the fertility of soil after ascertaining the minerals and micronutrients it lacks, the agriculture authorities have issued 16,000 soil health cards to farmers in Sirsa.

In a rare initiative, a farmer of Haryana, Ramehar Singh of Silani village in Jhajjar district, has installed a 50-KW capacity poultry litter-based biogas power plant at his poultry farm using poultry waste as feed material.

Showing the way to other farmers by his enterprise by running his 65 KVA (50-KW) biogas plant for 14 hours a day for the last three months, this self-reliant farmer now saves about `1 lakh per month. Confident of meeting his power needs, he has got his state electricity board connection disconnected.

The implication of bad roads
n Bad roads claimed 13 lives daily in the state in 2011
n As many as 26 persons were injured daily in the state in 2011

Operating two 660-MW units at the newly commissioned China Light and Power Plant (CLPP) at Jhajjar has almost become impossible for Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited (HPGCL) as Coal Indi

Mandatory metered connections to consumers in domestic and commercial sectors and to convert existing unmetered water connections into metered ones are some of the steps taken by the Haryana Govern

The Annual Plan for 2012-13 for Haryana was today finalised at Rs 26,485 crore, which is a handsome 30 per cent hike over last fiscal’s plan of Rs 20,358 crore.

The Haryana State Urban Water Policy for 2012 has been notified for prevention of wastage of water and for its conservation.

Senior officers of the Public Health Engineering Department said on Monday that the policy has been formulated in the context of the present scenario of high percentage of wastage of water through unmetered connections in urban areas which were being billed on flat rate basis.

Annual Plan for the State pegged at Rs.26,485 crore

The annual Plan for Haryana for 2012-13 was on Monday finalised at Rs.26,485 crore at a meeting here between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and State Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.Initiating discussions on Haryana's development strategy and Plan performance, Mr Ahluwalia said the State has fared “satisfactorily” on all counts, including the human development index which is appreciable.

The Haryana Government has decided to suspend granting of licences to stone-crushers in the three districts of Faribadad, Gurgaon and Mewat to check sporadic complaints of “illegal mining and illeg

Counters DoPT’s Stand Against Inquiry, Cites Violations By Haryana Govt.

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