Haryana will establish New Born Corners (NBC) and Sick New Born Care Units (SNCUs) in all the administrative hospitals of the state in order to confirm the infant death rate.

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda made this announcement today while addressing a meeting.

Mr. Hooda stated that NBC units would be established at 144 sub-centres, 11 rural community health (RCH) centres and 156 primary health centres under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).

Chief Minister of Haryana, Bhupinder Singh Hooda is proud to announce that Haryana is all set to be -TB Free State. Mr. Hooda said that Haryana has achieved third position in providing free second line treatment of Tuberculosis (TB) after Maharashtra and Gujarat.

He brought in to the picture, the initiatives to wipe out the disease and informed that Revised National Tuberculosis Control (RNTC) programme will be implemented to shrink the mortality rate and curtail the transmission of TB.

Narnaul (Haryana), Jan 4 : A new central university, the first in Haryana, started functioning Monday in the state's educationally and economically backward Mahendragarh district.

Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda inaugurated the first academic session of the university, in the district, 300 km from Chandigarh.

With its own campus spread over 500 acres at Jant-Pali town, 7 km from Mahendragarh town, yet to be built, classes of the university have been started from the complex of B. Ed. College, Narnaul. Mool Chand Sharma is the first vice-chancellor of the university.

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda assured to expedite investigations into the Ruchika molestation case through a Special Investigation Team for speedy delivery of justice to the family of Ruchika who was molested by former Haryana police Chief SPS Rathore.

Chandigarh, Jan 2 : In a bid to streamline its working, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has digitalized nearly 250,000 files to enable web-based services to its customers, state Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said Saturday.

"It is a big achievement for HUDA and we have also directed the concerned officers to create a payment gateway. We have also told them to set up a computer-based grievance redressal system," he added.

Chandigarh, Dec 29  Without listing any concrete steps for time-bound action in the matter, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Tuesday assured an impartial enquiry into the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case involving former director general of police
(DGP) S. P. S. Rathore.

"All aspects of this case are being examined legally and the government would try to ensure justice to the affected family," Hooda told mediapersons at Khedar near Hisar, 300 km from here, after inaugurating the first phase of the 1,200 MW Rajiv Gandhi thermal power plant.

New Delhi, Dec 23 : The National Commission for Women (NCW) Wednesday asked Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to appeal against the six-month prison term given to former Haryana director general of police (DGP) S. P. S. Rathore for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra 19 years ago.

"I am very sad after the verdict. I have written to the chief minister of Haryana to appeal against the lighter punishment in this case," NCW chairperson Girija Vyas told reporters at a press conference here.

Chandigarh, Dec 21 :Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Monday assured National Commission for Minorities members that the state government supports a separate Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) in Haryana.

"One thing is very clear that the state government would not interfere in the affairs of the Sikhs. We would act as per the aspirations of Sikh community and would do what they want from us," Hooda said.

Chandigarh, Dec 7 :Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Monday flayed Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) chief Om Parkash Chautala for opposing the setting up of a nuclear power plant in the state's Fatehabad district.

"Chautala's statement is baseless; I think that he does not want to solve the problem of power shortage in the state. This nuclear power plant is in the interest of the state, its people and the entire country," Hooda said here Monday.

Chandigarh, Dec 7 : Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Monday reiterated his government's demand for a separate high court and in the state capital Chandigarh.

"It is our legitimate right to have a separate high court for Haryana and at the same time we want it in Chandigarh," Hooda told reporters here Monday.

"There is only the question of jurisdiction but we are confident that very soon all the issues will be settled and Haryana would have its separate high court," he added.

The centrally administered city Chandigarh is the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana.

Chandigarh Dec 4 : With a high-level delegation of the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) of India, concluding its visit to Haryana Friday, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has urged it for fast-tracking 2,800 (4x700) MW nuclear power plant so that it could be set up in the state soon.

Hooda and NPC officials, including its chairman and managing director S. K. Jain, held discussions in New Delhi Friday on the project.

Chandigarh, Nov 9 - In trying to become the first party in 30 years to return to power in Haryana for a second consecutive term, the Congress, along with its Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has ended up with its hands tied.

The induction of new ministers and chief parliamentary secretaries Saturday has clearly shown that Hooda and his party will have to learn lessons in coalition politics in Haryana - a state where the Congress ruled with absolute control between March 2005 and October
2009.

Chandigarh, Nov 7 : Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Huda on Saturday inducted six cabinet ministers and three ministers of state in his cabinet.

They were sworn in by the Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadiya at Raj Bhawan here. Those who were inducted as cabinet ministers are Capatain Ajay Yadav, Randeep Surjewala, Mahinder Pratap Singh, Paramveer Singh, Geeta Bhukal and Omprakash Jain, an independent.

Gopal Kanda, Shivcharan Sharma and Sukhveer Kataria, all independents were inducted as ministers of state.

Chandigarh, Nov 6 : The Congress government in Haryana led by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda will induct new ministers Saturday, 15 days after the assembly poll results came Oct 22, an official said Friday.

Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia will swear in the new ministers.

The swearing-in ceremony was earlier slated for Friday morning but was called off at the eleventh hour, ostensibly owing to differences within the Congress party and with its supporting legislators over sharing of ministry berths.

It is still not clear who all and how many ministers will make it to the Hooda government.

Chandigarh, Nov 4 : New ministers in the Congress government in Haryana led by Bhupinder Singh Hooda will be inducted Friday, officials said Wednesday.

Governor Jagannath Pahadia will administer the oath to the new ministers.

It is still not clear who all and how many ministers will make it to the Hooda government.

Sources in the Congress said that up to eight ministers could be sworn in.

Chandigarh, Nov 2 : In a bureaucratic reshuffle, the Haryana government has posted Chhatar Singh as the principal secretary to Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

Singh, an IAS officer of 1980 batch, replaces M. L. Tayal, who was principal secretary to Hooda in the previous government.    

K. K. Khandelwal, director for public relations, has been posted as additional principal secretary to the chief minister.

Naresh Gulati, a 1975-batch IAS officer, has been posted as financial commissioner and principal secretary for revenue. (IANS)

The Congress may have won the trust vote in the Haryana assembly but infighting seems to be holding up cabinet formation.

Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda faces a daunting task. His problem is that there are more claimants than the 13 ministerial berths in the 90-member assembly.

The single-day assembly session on Wednesday saw a spirited Opposition, led by Om Prakash Chautala’s Indian National Lok Dal, buoyed by an impressive increase in its seats, take on a divided Congress in the House.

The Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Congress government won the confidence vote in the Haryana assembly by a voice vote on Wednesday.

The Congress, which has 40 members in the assembly, won the trust motion by securing the support of 47 from among the 82 MLAs (excluding the Speaker) present in the House.

Six members of Kuldeep Bishnoi's Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) abstained from the proceedings.

Thirty-nine Congress members, seven Independents and the lone Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) member favoured the motion.

Haryana, Oct 28 : Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda will prove his majority on the floor of the Assembly today.

Protem Speaker Captain Ajay Singh Yadav will administer the oath of office to newly elected MLAs.

On October 25, he was sworn in as Haryana’s Chief Minister for a second consecutive term.

Previously, Hooda has been the Lok Sabha member for four terms in 1991, 1996, 1998, 2004 and the leader of opposition in Haryana''''s Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2004.

Chandigarh, Oct 27 : A faction of Sikh leaders who want a separate and autonomous body other than the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to manage gurdwaras in Haryana Tuesday met Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to discuss the issue.

"We met Hooda and reminded him about his promise of a separate SGPC for Haryana. He has assured us ... a separate body to administer gurdwaras in Haryana," Jagdish Singh Jhinda, president of an ad hoc committee of SGPC, told reporters here.