The inefficiency of government authorities may deprive scores of the district’s below poverty line (BPL) families of seeing construction of a toilet in their homes this year as well.

A bloody clash between two groups of farmers in a Jind village over sharing of canal water left one person dead and six seriously injured.

Farmers threaten to block Jind-Gohana road, say they are being punished for electing INLD MLA
Parvesh Sharma

There’s a novel experiment underway in an acre-and-a-half at Jind’s Nidana village.

Jind soil lacks necessary nutrients, people falling sick

Overdose of pesticides to increase productivity has not only created serious health problems for humans, but has also destroyed the health of the soil. During the past one year, the Jind Soil Testing Lab received 9,400 samples of sand, but all failed as these did not have the much-required nutrients.

In violation of the norms, sewage is being discharged into the Hansi branch canal.

The National Capital Region (NCR) witnessed another expansion on Monday with the inclusion of two Haryana districts, Jind and Karnal.

Their experiment bears fruit with increase in crop production, profits

Residents of 14 villages, mainly women, of Jind district have taken upon themselves the responsibility of keeping pesticides away from their fields. They have identified 204 insects, divided them into vegetarian and non-vegetarian categories and proved that pesticides are not required to keep insects away from crops.

Nearly 880 students, 150 of them girls, suffered from nausea and complained of stomach ache after consuming iron tablets in government schools in several districts of Haryana, officials said on Tuesday.

The folic acid (iron) tablets were given to them as part of Haryana Health Department’s supplementation programme to combat anaemia, they said.

About 15 lakh children were administered iron and folic acid tablets in schools of 20 districts today .