[HARYANA GK & CURRENT AFFAIRS] Target Naib Tehsildar

• International Youth Day -12 August

• The innovative “Mhara Gaon-Jagmag Gaon” scheme, scripted by the state government, led by the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, aims at providing 24-hour power supply to the rural households. He formally launched the scheme from Dayalpur village of Kurukshetra district.

• Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Krishan Kumar Bedi

         800 MW Super Critical Thermal Plant is being set up at Panipat to replace

          the existing obsolete units each of 110 MW

         800 MW Super Critical Thermal Power Plant would also be established at                              Yamunanagar.

• Babupur village  of Gurgaon has been selected for the pilot project of having advanced, hi-tech and digitised e-model gram panchayats under the banner of “Digital India”

        Haryana ranks among the ten states in the country where one gram panchayat each             has been picked up for the pilot project. The other nine states where a gram panchayat         each will be e-modelled under the pilot project are: Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,                 Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Tripura and West                Bengal.

• The Haryana Government has decided to set up an ultra-modern aviation hub in strategically located Hisar to cater to the requirements of the maintenance repair and overhaul facility, fixed base operations and Aerospace Park.

• In Haryana, there are a total of:- 6,248- gram panchayats,

                                                     126- panchayat samitis  

                                                     21-zila parishads

                                                      41- wards of zila parishads

                                                      2-municipal corporations—Faridabad and Karnal,

                                                     16-municipal councils

                                                     27-municipal committees

        These are 5^th General Election to be conducted in the months of August/September,              2015. This is the first time when this Commission is going to use multi post EVMs to              conduct elections of the seats of Member Panchayat Samitis and Zila Parishad of two          districts i.e. Panchkula and Rewari.

        Highest no. of blocks in district- Bhiwani (10)

        Highest no. of Gram Panchayats- Yamunanagar (671)

• The Cabinet has also decided to add rule 6A in Haryana Civil Services (Revised Pension) Part-I Rules, 2009. Under rule 6A, the pension of pre- 2006 pensioners shall be stepped up with effect from February 6, 2015 to 50 per cent of the sum of minimum of pay in the pay band and the grade pay corresponding to the pre-revised pay scale from which the pensioner had retired.

• According to the survey conducted in 2013-14 by National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, 27.85 per cent children up to five years of age in Haryana were under weight, 34.1 per cent children were dwarf and weight of 11 per cent children were underweight as compared to their height.

       UNICEF has set three parameters to monitor the nutritional level. These are age,                  weight and height. Haryana had two parameters to check nutritional level; one was age        and other was weight. Now the government would incorporate the parameter of height.

• The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Mr Nitin Gadkari, has announced to start rope-way transport system between Dhaula Kuan and Mansesar via Gurgaon. He also announced a 150-km four-lane national highway project from Hisar to Bathinda via Adampur, Fatehabad, Ratia, and Mansa.

• Ranjit Dahiya of Sonipat District makes mural painting of Bollywood stars in Mumbai.

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