The gram panchayat of Dulat village in this district has been awarded a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh for showing the best results in correcting the skewed gender ratio (34 girls against 16 boys) in 2009.
Deputy Commissioner Vijay Singh Dahiya handed over the cheque to village sarpanch Nirmal Singh today.
The award has been given under the National Rural Health Mission.
New Delhi: In what could come as a big help to parents, the Haryana government has launched a new software in Rohtak, which will enable the administration to send webbased SMS alerts on scheduled dates for immunization.
These SMS alerts will be sent to parents in three installments
It will connect NH-8 at Kotputli in Rajasthan to NH-10 in Rohtak, shortening the distance by 75 km, while providing an alternative route to skip Delhi
Haryana has decided to provide the
Chandigarh: Haryana is parched. Water supply from the Bhakra dam is down to nearly half of what was available last year, the rotational supply is being released every 32 days against 16 days, seven of the 21 districts are grappling with water woes. As if that
A significant number of farmers in nearly a dozen villages of Jhajjar district, about 30 km from here, are on the verge of ruin following the alleged 'lethargic' attitude of the district administration in draining out accumulated rain water from their fields.
Ill-effects of burning of paddy straw
Ravinder Saini
Rohtak, June 8
With a view to creating awareness among farmers regarding harmful effects of the burning of paddy straw in fields and making them environment- friendly, the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has decided to launch an awareness campaign in the Rohtak and Jhajjar regions.
CHANDIGARH: Baliyana village in Rohtak district has become the first village in Haryana where cheques of annual royalty for acquired land were distributed on Thursday to farmers under the rehabilitation policy of the State Government.
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Friday that the State Government had prepared a blueprint to eradicate unemployment. Redressing the grievances of people at Rohtak, he said large industrial units would be set up in all parts of the State and many such units had already been set up. This would solve the problem and ''hardly any family would be left unemployed'. He said the proposed Industrial Model Township in Rohtak, 70 km from Delhi, would house large industrial units.
Power transmission in the state has entered a new phase with everything ready for the first-ever transmission project in the country with viability gap funding (VGF) by the central government.
The project will be the first in Haryana with VGF in the public-private partnership (PPP) mode.
