Chandigarh Mar 20 PTI Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday addressed around 4000 Class-I gazetted officers of the state government through an audio webinar and exhorted them to monitor development activities in the villages to be adopted by them under the Gram Sanrakshak Yojana According to an official statement Khattar motivated the officers to work in this sphere diligently with an intention to serve people We have coined a new term for this unique collaboration of government officials for public welfare and development of the state Like there is Public Private Partnership PPP this will be called Government Community Partnership GCP wherein the officers will work for development of villages besides routine office work he said We have specifically chosen a non-working day for this webinar as this work will be done on non-working days he said He elaborated that it is not a part of their job but more of social service They have to visit their adopted village at least once a month and monitor its development he said The chief minister urged the officers to work on the initiative following the mantra of Sabka Sath-Sabka Vishwas He said that other than ensuring the overall development of the state the government is committed to ensuring happiness and prosperity of the people The chief minister emphasised that the state would be on the path of progress if everyone including serving and retired officers contributed towards development of villages Listing out the works to be done under the initiative he said the first will be income verification under the Parivar Pehchan Patra family ID scheme He said that local committees are working on it and the officers will expedite the process of income verification Second thing will be to authenticate the verified income so that the benefits of government schemes reach the eligible beneficiaries he added PTI SUN SMN SMN

Chandigarh Oct 22 PTI Union minister Kaushal Kishore Friday unveiled a statue of B R Ambedkar at Central University of Haryana in Mahendragarh according to an official statement After unveiling the statue the Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs said Ambedkar is not a leader of any one caste or society but a symbol of knowledge It was he who gave India the constitutional system through which the country is moving forward on the path of progress the Haryana government statement quoted the minister as saying The minister also administered an oath to the gathering to build a drug-free Haryana a drug-free society and a drug-free family He inaugurated a new hostel block for boys and laid the foundation of a water treatment plant PTI SUN SMN SMN

Chandigarh Sep 20 PTI Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar will ride a bicycle from his official residence to the civil secretariat here on World Car Free Day on Wednesday according to an official statement The civil secretariat is nearly two km from Khattars official residence in Chandigarh and he had cycled the distance on a few occasions in the past According to the statement issued on Monday The chief minister will come to his office in the civil secretariat from his residence by bicycle so as to generate awareness amongst people The chief minister had said earlier that as far as possible people should use cycle to commute at least for short distances as it will help protect the environment In the 2019 assembly polls Khattar had travelled by train from Chandigarh to Karnal and then rode a bicycle to reach a polling booth to cast his vote PTI SUN SMN SMN