Nine districts facing water crisis in state
The latest figures of the availability and demand of potable water in Haryana show water shortage in nine districts of the state. Authorities concerned said there was shortage of water supply from the
Jind (D)
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Jind’s cotton fields show how war on whitefly can be won
At a time when whitefly attack has sparked farmer suicides in Punjab and Haryana, nearly 250 farmers of Jind district expect bumper cotton crop and that, too, without using pesticides. Like previous years,
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Prepare assessment report of whitefly-hit farmers: DC
Jind Deputy Commissioner Ajit Balaji Joshi yesterday directed all officials of the Agriculture Department to accelerate the process of ongoing assessment of whitefly affected cotton farmers in the district.
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70% groundwater ‘unfit’ in Jind
The official figures of water supply seem at variance from the ground reality raising doubts about the utilisation of grants to strengthen the delivery system in the district. While figures by the Public
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Groundwater level in Jind district depletes
In the absence of adequate canal water for irrigation, farmers are forced to use tube wells resulting in a steep fall in the water table in the district. Out of the seven blocks, the ground water table
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Haryana grapples with swine flu as four die in three weeks
Four persons have died due to swine flu and 14 have tested positive for the virus in Haryana since January 1. The state Health Department has dispatched stocks of Tamiflu to all districts for patients
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Scheme to build toilets for BPL families far from target in Jind
The inefficiency of government authorities may deprive scores of the district’s below poverty line (BPL) families of seeing construction of a toilet in their homes this year as well. A look at the figures
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Farmers clash over canal water in Jind; one killed
A bloody clash between two groups of farmers in a Jind village over sharing of canal water left one person dead and six seriously injured. As per information, Muana village under Safidon police station
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Despite NHRC notice, no action on ground in Nidani village
Farmers threaten to block Jind-Gohana road, say they are being punished for electing INLD MLA Parvesh Sharma The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) may have taken suo motu cognizance of a media
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Jind farmers root for pesticide-free produce
There’s a novel experiment underway in an acre-and-a-half at Jind’s Nidana village. A group of farmers, most of them illiterate, are out to prove a point to scientists and experts: agriculture is possible