NCC academy to come up in Gharaunda, says Khattar
CHANDIGARH: Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday said the state government will give 15 acre land of the defense ministry at Gharaunda for construction of an NCC academy.
He said directions to complete all formalities have been issued so that the work can be completed at the earliest.
Earlier, the plan was to establish an NCC academy on nine acre land of an educational institution in Gyanpur village, which could not be completed due to some reasons and NCC directorate demanded three acre additional land on national highway from the Haryana government.
“In view of the demand of the NCC directorate, the chief minister has now decided that of 17 acre vacant land of the ministry of defense at Gharaunda, 15 acre will be made available for establishment of the NCC Academy,” a government spokesperson said.
Khattar chaired a meeting with Maj Gen Rajiv Chhibber, additional director of the NCC directorate Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh, and Brig AS Brar, Ambala NCC group commander, in this connection. Haryana education minister Kanwar Pal and Gharaunda MLA Harvinder Kalyan were also present in the meeting.
Ambala NCC group commander Brig AS Brar apprised the chief minister that in Haryana, NCC wings are operational in 233 colleges and 397 schools. The number of NCC cadets at the national level is 14.96 lakh, while in Haryana the number of cadets is 43,498, of which 29,110 are boys and 14,388 are girls.
He said every year 40 NCC camps are organised by the NCC directorate and till now, these camps used to be organised at different places on rent, but now, with the setting up of the academy, it will save unnecessary expenditure.
He said apart from Haryana, two NCC academies are coming up in Punjab and one in Himachal Pradesh. ‘Ready to deal with every situation arising due to Covid’
Manohar Lal Khattar said the state is fully equipped to deal with any situation arising due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Stating that the health infrastructure and facilities across state have been further improved, Khattar, during a meeting held by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with chief ministers of all states through video conferencing, said in the last one week, there has been a slight rise in the number of Covid patients in three districts adjoining Delhi.
Deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala and health minister Anil Vij were also present. The chief minister said there are no Covid patients in four districts, while the number of patients in the remaining districts is less than 10.
He said there are currently 1,960 Covid positive cases in Haryana, of which, 1,380 patients are in Gurugram, 463 in Faridabad and 27 in Sonepat. The positivity rate of the state is 0.5%, he said.
The chief minister said Haryana had received 4.25 crore doses under the Covid vaccination campaign. Of this, the first dose has been administered to 100% and second dose to 88% beneficiaries.