Panipat: The 250 MW Unit-7 of Panipat Thermal Power Station (PTPS-2) of Haryana Power Generation Corporation Ltd (HPGCL) achieved a record generation of 1,940 Lakh Units of power during March 2012

Gurgaon, India’s aspiring lower Manhattan, may soon end up with no water, but overflowing sewage.

Six new projects involving a total investment of Rs. 3,411 crore will come up at the Industrial Model Township (IMT) in Rohtak, while two projects, including the second plant of Asian Paints and a blending and bottling plant, will be inaugurated by Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on April 23.

Stating this here on Wednesday, Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation managing director Rajeev Arora said Mr. Hooda will lay the foundation of the projects of Maruti Suzuki India, Suzuki Motorcycle India Private Limited, Nippon Carbide, Sabarkantha Cooperative — a unit of Amul Dairy, Lakshmi Precision Screws and Aisin Automotive Haryana Private Limited.

Shimla Mulana village of Panipat district has become the first village in Haryana to be completely illuminated with Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamps.

The Renewable Energy Department has provided power and solar energy equipments worth Rs. 13.27 lakh to the village, a department spokesperson said.

CFLs replace 1,799 bulbs, 76 streetlights installed. Bibipur, a small hamlet in the district, has hit a new milestone with a larger awareness and proper use of solar energy in the village.

Haryana tops the list of 16 States where environment and forest clearance norms are being violated, fully or partially, by projects.

Farmers in Haryana have stepped up their campaign against the setting up of the Gorakhpur Nuclear Power Plant in the Fatehabad district of the state.

The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) has earmarked over 628 hectares of land to set up a 2,800-MW power plant which will use pressurised heavy water reactors at a cost of `13,000 crores. The villages earmarked for site selection include Gorakhpur, Kumaharia and Kajalhedi.

Transportation of illegal minerals in Haryana also stopped

The Supreme Court on Monday stopped illegal mining in the villages of Kota, Gangani, Sarai, Mohammadpur and Kharag Jalalpur in Mewat district of Haryana, taking note of the report submitted by the Central Empowered Committee about large-scale illegal mining taking place in these areas.

Fatehabad, March 30: Voices against the proposed nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad grew louder today as farmers from 29 villages held a demonstration and demanded shifting of the projec

The Census 2011 data for Haryana has revealed that about 96 per cent of families were living in good or liveable houses while the remaining were living in dilapidated houses, Director (Census Operations) Neerja Sekhar said here on Thursday.

Releasing the Housing Census data at a Press conference here, she said that the percentage share of households having one married couple in a house remained 65.6 during the 2001 and 2011 Census.