Sirsa: A central team is expected to visit Haryana soon to assess the loss suffered by the state due to the floods. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who visited the flood-affected districts of Sirsa and Fatehabad today, said the team could arrive anytime in a day or two.
Fatehabad: The health authorities have swung into action after detection of incidents of jaundice in Jakhal town of Fatehabad district. A door-to-door survey has been ordered in the affected areas of the town.
Residents allege that cases of hepatitis are coming from several localities of the town. However, the Meena Bazar area near the grain market is the worst -hit.
Option Energy Private Limited, a company into bio-waste- based power production, is planning to set up an organic waste-based plant to produce power and Bio-Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), based on US technology, at Fatehabad soon.
As a further step towards the setting up of a nuclear power plant in Haryana, a team of officers of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), led by its chairman-cum-managing director SK Jain, will arrive here tomorrow on a two-day visit to initiate pre-project activities.
Haryana, at the time of its creation from the womb of Punjab was partly a parched state. Large areas were dry treeless sand dunes. Even drinking water was a privilege. Its has taken long strides since then. The State is becoming a real green land. All the villages get potable water.
Sirsa and Fatehabad districts figure in the new scheme for crop diversification being implemented by the Agriculture Department by promoting the summer moong, maize and sunflower crops in 13 districts of Haryana.
Granite in Haryana a possible source uranium has contaminated milk, wheat, pulses and water in Bathinda district in Punjab, a study by scientists of Amritsar
Sirsa: With farmers still busy in harvesting their crops, candidates of different parties concentrated on campaigning in urban areas of the Sirsa (reserved) parliamentary constituency today. INLD candidate Sita Ram, who has been campaigning for the past two weeks now, concentrated on a door-to-door campaign in his native town Dabwali today.
