Shamsher Singh Surjewala, president, All-India Kisan Khet Mazdoor Congress, has said the administration has constituted committees at the district level to tackle the problems arising out of the delay in monsoon.

Kaithal: The state government has spent crores to provide potable water to residents of the town, but some localities still continue to get polluted muddy water for the past more than six months.

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Kaithal: All offices of Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam in the district will start functioning from Rajeev Gandhi Vidyut Bhawan to be constructed at a cost of Rs 6 crore at Pehowa Chowk here. The construction work on this eco-friendly building will start immediately and it will be completed in a record time of six months.

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CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hyderabad-based Naandi Foundation to implement a pilot project on community safe drinking water systems in select villages in the State in a phased manner.

The MoU was signed by Haryana Commissioner and Secretary, Public Works Department (Water Supply and Sanitation) Roshan Lal and National Director (Water Programme) Amit Jain on behalf of Naandi Foundation in the presence of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Water Supply and Sanitation Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala here.

The Haryana Cabinet has approved a pilot project for providing safe drinking water based on reverse osmosis and related technologies in select water quality affected villages in the Public-NGO-Community Mode through the Naandi Foundation of Hyderabad.

Announcing this after the Cabinet meeting, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda disclosed that 100 villages would be taken up in the affected districts including Mewat, Mahendergarh, Jhajjar and Kaithal.

The district administration has decided to take tough action against night harvesting of wheat through combine harvesters and burning of wheat straw in the fields resulting in environmental pollution.

Farmers and combine owners violating the directions will face strict action.

Kaithal: A 220 kV substation at a cost of Rs 45 crore will be set up at Kalayat on 12.5 acres soon. This was stated by Randeep Singh Surjewala, power, water supply and sanitation minister, while addressing party workers at Kalayat yesterday. He was here to extend an invitation to Congress workers to participate in the "kirtimaan rally' to be addressed by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in Kaithal on July 18. He said after the setting up of this substation, power supply to the Kalayat area would be streamlined.