Minimum wages hiked to Rs18,000: CM

BS Malik

Sonepat, September 17

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today announced increase in minimum wages from Rs 10,000 to Rs 18,000 per month and increase in the death compensation from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2 lakh. He was addressing a state-level Labour Day function organised here.

The Chief Minister announced that September 17 would now be celebrated as Rajkiya Shram Divas along with Vishwakarma Jayanti. He said sewing machines would be given to 60,000 women workers in the state.

He said under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan the government had released Rs 138 crore to municipal bodies. Soil waste collection facilities had been started in a large number of the total 1,485 municipal wards, he added.

He said the government had sanctioned 1,330 solid and liquid waste management projects to make rural and urban areas in the state neat and clean.

The Chief Minister gave away prizes amounting to Rs 32.12 crore to 40,566 labourers under various schemes.

Urban Local Bodies Minister Kavita Jain, Transport Minister Krishan Lal Pawar, Minister of State for Labour Nayab Singh Saini. Minister of State for Cooperation Manish Grover, Minister of state for Labour and Employment Krishan Kumar, MPs Ramesh Kaushik and Ratan Lal Kataria, Chairperson of the Haryana State Agriculture Marketing Board Krishna Gahlawat and Chairman of the Haryana Backward Classes Nigam also spoke on the occasion.

Khattar launched 15 development projects involving an investment of over Rs 68 crore. These included five 33 KV power substations at Gannaur, Shekhpura, Rukhi, Khandrai and Jakholi village, an e-disha Kendra in the mini-secretariat at Gohana and sewage treatment plants near Rathdhana and Kakroi villages near Sonepat town.

The Chief Minister also laid the foundation stones of seven new projects, namely the building of a government senior secondary school at Karewri village, SC/ST wing in the Industrial Training Institute at Murlana village, a facility centre in the local Subhash Stadium, an e-disha Kendra at the local mini-secretariat and link roads from Niyat village to Garhi Sarai Namdar Khan and from Sikanderpur Majra village to Lath village.

More women cops to be recruited 

The Chief Minister later addressing a press conference said the number of women in the Haryana Police has increased from 6 per cent to 8.5 per cent in the last three years and it would be further increased to 10 per cent. "Around 5,000 police personnel will be recruited within a year," he added. The gender ratio in Haryana has crossed over 950 girls to 1,000 boys, he claimed.