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HARYANA REVIEW FEBRUARY 2017 1EDITORIAL

The year 2107 could not have begun in Haryana on a better note. Good and glad tidings, most of them made possible by the persistent and persevered efforts

made by the state government, led by the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, gladdened the hearts of the people. Thanks to the concerted follow-through action after the launch of the Beti-Padhao-Beti Bachao campaign by the Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, from Panipat two years ago, Haryana has registered sharp improvement in the sex ratio. By December, 2016, it touched 900-mark with at least 12 districts logging 900 or 900 plus.

As if this was not enough, Haryana again played the trend-setter in Aadhaar saturation of children below five years of age, leaving some big and advanced cousin-states way behind. The state did an encore, and occupied the top slot in this seg-ment for the second time in a row. According to UIDAI, Har-yana not only achieved 100 per cent Aadhaar saturation up to December 15, 2016, but also topped in this category. In 2015 also, the state had bagged this distinction.

In the space of policy framework, decentralisation got paced up with the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, delegating back to the Director, Urban Local Bodies, the powers to allow change of land use. Not to be left behind, the Health Minister, Mr Anil Vij, vested more financial powers in civil hospitals and health centres in the districts to facilitate purchases and repairs, subject, of course, to a ceiling. In this issue of Harya-na Review, we make an attempt to bring our readers these and many more positives, draped in the colours of ‘Good Tidings’.

Then, the first fortnight of the New Year saw the state gov-ernment live up to its reputation for pulling off successes, one after the other. The maiden Pravasi Haryana Diwas-2017 cele-brations, organised at Gurugram on January 10 and 11, result-ed in 24 MoUs, involving potential investment of Rs 20,000 crore and jobs for about 43,000 persons. In our four-part Cover Story, we unfold the runaway success the event was and also bring profiles of those who were conferred Gaurav Sammans.

The Maharishi Dayanand University in Rohtak hosted the 21st edition of the National Youth Festival. Reach our Photo Feature to capture it in its varied hues. Read Sports section to know boxers from the state winning six golds and three silvers to lift youth girls' overall trophy. Do not miss our Potpourri Page to know some interesting but unheard of facts about cancer.=

Good tidings herald New Year

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Haryana does a turn-around p 4 Haryana has registered sharp improvement in the sex ratio which has now touched 900-mark. Better still, 12 districts have logged the ratio of 900 or 900 plus

Healthcare gets a shot p 6

A 2015 redux: We top again in Aadhaar saturation p 8

Coming, crop clusters p 10

Pay, allowances up for NCC officers, cadets p 12

Now, e-registration at all tehs ils p 12

Separate server for ration distribution p 13

COVER STORY - PRAVASI HARYANA DIVAS 2017

Pravasi attempt pays off p 14The Pravasi Haryana Divas-2017 celebrations at Gurugram served the objectives of garnering investment, showcasing the state as a cynosure of investing eyes, and connecting Pravasi Haryanvis with their roots

One doc for every 1,000 patients our goal: Vij p 22

Sonu Nigam, Randeep among 19 get Gaurav Samman p 24

Profiles of Gaurav Sammanees p 26[16]

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GMDA set to redefine urban governance p 34

SPECIAL REPORT

CM makes an R-Day gift p 38

PHOTO FEATURE

Different hues of Youth Festival p 40

NEWS IN CAPSULE

The month that was p 50

SPORTS

Haryana girls lift youth national title p 52

POTPOURRI

Fighting cancer p 54

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PARVEEN K MODI

Making rapid strides on all fronts, social indicators in-cluded, Haryana is inching

pretty close to shedding the baggage of being a state with skewed sex ratio. The turn-around involving the sex ratio at birth (SRB) scaling the 900-mark (900 girls for every 1,000 boys), offers a ready example for other states to emulate.

Decidedly, the credit for this goes to the concerted and conscious efforts made by the state government, led by the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, after the launch of the Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao (BBBP) campaign by the Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, from Panipat in January, 2015. Statis-tics tell the tale of the rich dividends these have yielded.

It is for the first time since 2001 that Haryana achieved SRB of 900 girls for every 1,000 boys in December, 2016, according to the CRS system of registration of births. This is in sharp contrast to 2011 when the state logged a lowly low of 834:1,000 among its peers in the country. SRB is an indicator of development of society in terms of how it treats its women.

Detailing how the turn-around was

made possible, the Chief Minister told Haryana Review that a two-pronged strategy had been launched to im-prove the sex ratio which had now taken a leap forward. The two prongs of the strategy are incentivizing the girl child and cracking down on those engaged in the illegal activity of sex determination and female feticide.

According to statistics, out of the 5,25,278 children born in the state between January and December, 2016, there were 2,76,414 boys and 2,48,864 girls, taking the sex ratio to touch the 900-mark.

What is remarkable is that none of the districts is below 850-mark, and as many as 12 districts have recorded sex ratio of 900 or 900 plus. As many as 15 districts had SRB of more than 900 in December, 2016. Sirsa district with a ratio of 935 girls for 1,000 boys tops the list followed by Panchkula with 923, and Fatehbad with 918.

Mohindergarh Rewari, Sonipat

and Jhajjar districts, having child sex ratio of below 800 as per 2011 census, have shown marked improve-ment. None of these now has SRB below 850. As many as 19 districts have shown marked increase in the SRB since the launch of the Beti Bachao,Beti Padhao (BBBP) pro-gramme in the state.

The SRB of Rewari, Rohtak and Jind districts increased by more than 40 points from 2015 and 16 districts registered an increase of 20 or 20 plus points. Sirsa had also topped the dis-tricts in SRB in 2015 with SRB of 915.

Besides incentivising the girl child by giving a host of concessions and sops right from birth till after her marriage, Haryana unleashed a massive drive against sex selection, selective abortion and female foeticide after the launch of BBBP.

Under the drive, extensive inter-ventions by way of enforcement of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal

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GOODT I D I N G S

Heading north, sex ratio scales 900-mark; Sirsa tops the list with 935

Haryana does a turn-aroundHaryana has registered sharp improvement in the sex ratio which has now touched 900-mark. Better still, 12 districts have logged the ratio of 900 or 900 plus

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Diagnostic Techniques Act, and the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act were undertaken to nail the cul-prits engaged in the illegal practice which was mainly responsible for the skewed sex ratio.

During the campaign, inter-dis-trict as well as inter-state raids were planned and executed with the help of the authorities concerned in the neighbouring states to nab the offenders engaged in cross- border sex determination tests followed by female foeticide.

About 400 FIRs were registered under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques and the Medical Termination of Pregnan-cy Acts against the offenders after successful raids, including 75 raids conducted across the border in the adjoining states.

75 CROSS-BORDER FIRSThe Haryana Government lodged 75 cross-border FIRs, including Delhi-17, Punjab–15, Uttar Pradesh-37 and Rajasthan-6). These raids underscored the need for coordinated efforts among the neighboring states to effec-tively tackle this menace.

More than 40 cases of sex selection drugs being sold or supplied for male child were detected in different dis-tricts and offenders were booked un-der the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, for their unethical and illegal practice.

Apart from qualified radiologists and doctors, the unholy nexus in the

state was being run through quacks, untrained health workers, laboratory or X-ray technicians or operation the-atre assistants. The use of portable, affordable, handy ultrasound ma-chines by these quacks or untrained paramedics for sex detection purposes was found rampant during the raids in various parts of the state as well as in inter-state raids.

There have been instances of unqualified personnel not having ultrasound machines befooling preg-nant women and their families by per-forming sex detection using jelly and rubbing objects like mobile phones posing as ultrasound probes.

In January 2016 edition of ‘MAN KI BAAT’, the Prime Minister had appreciated the efforts being made by the state government to save the girl child. He remarked that his strate-gy of launching Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign from Haryana had been successful with the state show-ing the path in the fight against the menace of female foeticide.

Haryana has shown the way how to make a turnaround in improving the sex ratio, an example which can be replicated by other states.=

The woman employees working in municipal corporations, municipal councils and municipalities in Haryana will now be able to avail themselves of childcare leave. The Urban Local Bodies Minister, Mrs Kavita Jain, said this would meet a long-pending demand of employees

Childcare leavefor civic staff

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PARVEEN K MODI

If the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, pulled the curtains down on 2016 by delegating back to the

Director, Urban Local Bodies, the pow-ers to allow change of land use, the Health Minister, Mr Anil Vij, early in January, 2017, vested more financial powers in civil hospitals and health centres in the districts to facilitate purchases and repairs, subject, of course, to a ceiling.

It decidedly bodes well for the healthcare system in the state. The de-cision to delegate more powers to hos-pitals on the management of funds for

the purchase of medicines, medical consumables, equipment and upkeep of infrastructure will go a long way in ensuring smooth and timely delivery of healthcare services in the state. Hospitals and health centres will now be able to make purchases for up to Rs 20 lakh in a month through purchase committees.

The ceiling for 200-bedded district hospitals and above, including Panch-kula, will be Rs 5 lakh per month, and for 100-bedded but less than 200-bed-ded district hospitals it will be Rs 10 lakh per month. While the authority with delegated powers for the former will be chairperson, Swasthaya Kaly-

an Samiti (Hospital), it will be Chair-person, District Health and Family Welfare Society, for the latter.

Dwelling on the decision, Mr Anil Vij told Haryana Review that the proposal having been okayed by the Chief Minister, revised guide-lines had been issued on how to go about the task of utilisation of funds through purchase committees for the purchase of medicines, medical consumables, equipment and meeting other expenses, as provided under various budget heads.

Referring to the revision of finan-cial powers, Mr Vij said that civil sur-geon and District Health and Family

Healthcare gets a shotIn what bodes well for the healthcare system, the Haryana Government has decided to delegate more powers to hospitals in the districts on the management of funds for making purchases

More financial leeway for hospitals, health centres in districts

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Welfare Society (DHFWS) would be responsible for proper utilisation of funds. The authorities which have been delegated powers at different levels would approve utilisation of funds on the recommendations of the purchase committees which have already been set up.

All purchases would be ratified by the respective Swasthya Kalyan Samitis (SKSs) either before the purchase, or, at a later date. Purchases valuing more than Rs 20 lakh would be referred to the Director General, Health Services, or Mission Director, National Health Mission (State Health Society), depending on the origin of funds.

Mr Vij said that consump-tion-based purchases would be encouraged over demand-based purchases. The facility would keep one month’s stock as buffer at all

times, and this should be procured either from warehouse or purchased. It would be compulsory to enter all items on the essential medicine list on online portal, and endeavour would be made to procure only quality medi-cines and consumables at competitive rates.

PURCHASE COMMITTEES SET UPPurchase committees have been constituted in civil hospitals to be approved by the chairperson, DHF-WS, and at other institutes such as Community Health Centres (CHCs), Primary Health Centres (PHCs), Ur-ban Health Centres (UHCs) and Urban Primary Health Centres (UPHCs).

Purchase committees in civil hospitals would have as chairperson Principal Medical Officer (PMO), Medical Superintendent (MS) or Sen-ior Medical Officer (SMO) in-charge,

and comprise as members senior doctors, account persons, if available, and any other members approved by Chairperson, DHFWS.

Similarly, such committee at the level of other institutes would have as chairperson SMO in-charge or med-ical officer in-charge, and comprise as members permanent government employees as per availability of manpower.

Besides, minor civil repairs up to Rs 2 lakh per case with quotations could be carried out with approval of the committee constituted for the purpose by the SKS chairperson. All cases of major repairs, renovations and up-gradation would be referred to the state every six months.

This, Mr Vij said, would not only lend efficiency but also help in making the healthcare services more efficient and delivery-oriented.=

S. No. Level of Institution Authority to whom power is delegated Amount (Rs) Remarks

1. District hospitals of 200-bedded and above

Chairperson, District Health and Family Welfare Society Up to 20,00,000 per month

On the recommendations of purchase committee of hospitals

2.District hospitals of 200-bedded and above including Panchkula

Chairperson, SKS (Hospital) Up to 5,00,000 per month -do-

3. District hospitals of 100 but below 200-bedded

Chairperson, District Health and Family Welfare Society Up to 10,00,000 per month -do-

4. District hospitals of 100 but below 200 Chairperson, SKS (Hospital) Up to 3,00,000 per month -do-

5. Other hospitals Chairperson, District Health and Family Welfare Society Up to 7,00,000 per month - -

6. Other hospitals Chairperson, SKS (Hospital) Up to 1,00,000 per month - -

7. CHC/UHC/polyclinic Chairperson, District Health and Family Welfare Society Up to 5,00,000 per month - -

8. CHC/UHC/polyclinic Chairperson, SKS (CHC/UHC/Polyclinic) Up to 1,00,000 per month - -

9. PHC/dispensary Chairperson, District Health and Family Welfare Society Up to 2,00,000 per month - -

10 PHC/dispensary Chairperson, SKS (PHC) and SKS (Dispensary) Up to 25,000 per month - -

Powers for utilisation of funds have been revised as under:


Y S RANA

Haryana has again shown the way, this time in Aadhaar sat-uration of children below five

years of age leaving some big and advanced states, way behind. In what

A 2015 redux: We top again in Aadhaar saturation

Doing an encore, Haryana has again topped in Aadhaar saturation of children below five years of age, leaving some big and advanced states way behind

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is perceived as a pat on the back of the state government, Haryana has done an encore, and occupied the top slot for the second time in a row.

According to the data released by the UIDAI up to December 15, 2016, Haryana has not only achieved 100 per cent Aadhaar saturation but also topped in this category. In 2015 also, the state had achieved this distinction.

What’s more, Haryana has record-ed more than two times increase in Aadhaar enrolment of such children. Out of the 24.98 lakh children below five years of age, 18.72 lakh (74.9 per cent) children were enrolled for Aadhaar until December 15, 2016 as compared to 36.3 per cent in 2015.

CHANDIGARH LOGS 68 PER CENTChandigarh had more than 86,580 children below five years of age. The city beautiful enrolled 59,031 such children for Aadhaar which works out to 68.2 per cent. Punjab could enroll 12.26 lakh children out of 22.56 lakh, about 54.3 per cent. Himachal Pradesh had 5.76 lakh children below five and enrolled 3.4 lakh for Aadhaar (59.1 per cent).

The total population of Haryana was projected at 2.68 crore in 2015 and the state assigned Aadhaar to 2.71 crore which comes to 101 per cent as compared to Punjab and Himachal Pradesh with a score of 100 per cent each.

In case of Aadhaar saturation in the age group of 6-18 years, Har-yana enrolled 65.27 lakh (91.3 per cent) compared to Chandigarh 95.8 per cent; Himachal Pradersh 88.6 per cent and Punjab 88.7 per cent. Haryana has been in the forefront of Aadhaar saturation, and, to achieve the target, the state govern-ment roped in all Anganwaris and schools. And the efforts seem to have

paid rich dividends for the second time in a row.

A UIDAI official told Haryana Re-view that in order to achieve the goal in the given time-frame, Aadhaar enrolment camps were put on the job to enroll below-five children on Sep-tember 16, 2016. “The credit for this success goes to the state government and the administration in the dis-tricts without whose active support to the Aadhaar project, it could not have been possible,” he added.

The enrolment work, taken up in close coordination with the Social Welfare Department of Haryana Gov-ernment, was paced up to log more than three-fold increase in Aadhaar saturation of children below five. This has not only helped in moni-toring delivery of all welfare and health-related benefits to an infant but facilitated tracking of the child

from birth to immunisation to school admission and drop-outs.

Instead of using the traditional iris scans system on computers and seeking other biometrics docu-ments, the enrolment is done with the help of tablets and photographs of toddlers by clicking and upload-ing them.

While enrolling a child below five years of age, his/her biometrics are not captured. Instead, Aadhaar num-ber and biometrics of parents--either father or mother—are linked with child’s birth certificate,” said the offi-cial. Besides, it will be a tool to serve as data-base for information on each child for timely and assured delivery of servicers.

This achievement brings another feather in the cap of the Haryana Government.=

S.No. State Name Population (0 < 5Y) Aadhaar (0 < 5 Y) Saturation (%)

1 Haryana 2,498,932 1,926,578 77.1

2 Chandigarh 86,580 60,928 70.4

3 Himachal Pradesh 576,452 372,634 64.6

4 Punjab 2,256,720 1,261,437 55.9

Aadhaar saturation of children below five years of age

The Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, giving birth registration certificate to a woman

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PARVEEN K MODI

Out to create another basket for the farmers to earn from by making them break free from

the grip of wheat-paddy cycle and take to horticulture in a big way, the Haryana Government has come up with fresh approach.

Taking a holistic farm-to-market approach to the promotion of hor-ticulture, the Haryana Government has decided to launch ‘Crop Cluster Development Programme on Farm and Marketing Support to Horticul-ture Farmers’ in 2016-17.

The Rs 510.35-crore project, evolved at the behest of the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, would be executed in three years during which infra-structure-related facilities would be created in phases with focus on ‘Baag-wani Villages’ under the Horticulture Cluster Programme.

CLUSTERS SCHEME OUTLINEDSharing broad contours of the cluster scheme, the Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, Mr O P Dhankar, told Haryana Review that the project would be undertaken as a part of the Swarna Jayanti celebrations in the state.

Taking village as the wheel of activity, and farmers as its spokes, the project aims at collectivising farmers, especially small producers, at various levels across the state, fostering tech-nology penetration, improving pro-ductivity, enabling improved access to inputs and services, and increasing farmers’ income.

“This will help in strengthening sustainable agriculture-based live-lihood of the farmers. The scheme also aims at ensuring suitable market availability, both domestic and inter-

national”, Mr Dhankar said. Issues such as aggregation of

produce, market linkages, grading, packing and standards, sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures, pesticide residues, microbiological contami-nation and market access would be addressed through the project.

FINDING A WAY OUTIt would also help in finding a way out of such problems as direct approach to targeted beneficiaries, improve-ment in quality, grades and standards, improvement in post-harvest man-agement and increase in bargaining power of farmers.

The objectives sought to be achieved include development of farmer socio-economic security mod-el in the villages and farm sustain-ability, achievement of nutritional security and delivery of safe, quality food to the consumers and organised marketing through transparent insti-tutional delivery mechanism.

These would be realised through the creation of farmers’ groups, horti-culture clusters and villages, increase in area and production under horti-culture, introduction and penetration of technologies in horticulture clus-ters, development of agri-business PHM Centres and market linkages, and policy initiates at cluster levels.

Dr Abhilaksh Likhi, Principal Secretary, Agriculture Department, said under the initiative, 20 farmer producer organisations (FPOs) had been formed in the state, comprising 687 Farmers' Initiative Groups (FIGs). As many as 12,593 farmers have been associated with these organisations.

Besides, two FPOs have been formed exclusively for mushroom growers and beekeepers with 16 and 32 FIGs comprising 298 mush-room growers and 549 beekeepers, respectively. As many as 140 clusters comprising 340 baagwani villages have also been identified in the state, he added.=

Coming, crop clustersOut to promote horticulture and create another basket for the farmers to earn from, the Haryana Government is gearing up to launch ‘Crop Cluster Development Programme’

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The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, has announced that Home Guards in the state would now be paid wages on par with Police personnel. Apart from this, the state government has also urged the Central Government to set up an Army recruitment office in Jhajjar to provide maximum opportunities to the youth of Haryana.

The Chief Minister made this announcement while speaking at a function on the occasion of birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, in Rohtak. Paying rich tributes to the revolutionary freedom fighter, Mr Manohar Lal said that Netaji held a special place in the hearts of the youth.

He said that while 7,000 police personnel were recruited last year, an equal number would also be recruited this year. About 2,800 police personnel would be recruited within next month and these would include 1,000 each in Rohtak and Sonepat, 500 in Jhajjar and 300 in Panipat. The state government is also making concerted efforts to strengthen Home Guards force.

Home Guards to be paid on par with cops

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The Haryana Government has made e-Registration system operational at all tehsils or

sub-tehsils across the state to make registration of deeds citizen-friendly and transparent.

The Haryana Revenue Minister, Capt. Abhimanyu, told Haryana Review that help desks had been set up at e-Disha Kendras to provide various services. These include providing answers to general queries regarding stamp duty and collector rates; deed preparation using stand-ard deed templates; preliminary checking of deeds using check list to ensure that all the related documents have been supplied by the citizens; issuance of appointments for deed registration process; and delivery of registered deeds and providing Tat-kal appointments at prescribed rates.

In case of transaction value of up to Rs 5 lakh, there would be no charge. For transaction value from

The Haryana Government has decided to enhance between 2.5 and four times, the pay and

allowances of officers and cadets of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) in schools, colleges and universities in the state with effect from the new academic session, starting April 1, 2017.

The Education Minister, Mr Ram Bilas Sharma, told Haryana Review that the revision had been made after a gap of about 12 years. Haryana is the first state to hike considerably the pay and allowances of NCC officers at one go. The increase would place addition-al burden of about Rs 1.4 crore on the state exchequer.

On the basis of the norms of the Central Government, the Haryana Government has increased the outfit allowance from Rs 1,200 to Rs 5,000. While the allowance was earlier given once in lifetime on being commis-sioned, it would now be paid every

seven years. In case of transfer from one wing of NCC to another, including Army, Naval and Air Wings, the officer would be entitled to this allowance only once in service.

Similarly, the outfit maintenance allowance has been increased from Rs 480 to Rs 1,800 per year at the rate of Rs 150 per month for main-tenance of uniform at the end of every year of service.

The honorarium provided to associ-ate NCC officers (ANOs) had also been enhanced several times. In the senior division and senior wing, the hono-rarium given to lieutenant has been increased from Rs 900 to Rs 2,000, that of captain from Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,500, and of major from Rs 1,100 to Rs 3,000.

Similarly, in the junior division and junior wing, honorarium provided to third officer has been increased from Rs 700 to Rs 1,800, that of second officer from Rs 750 to Rs 2,000, and of chief officer from Rs 850 to Rs 2,500.=

Pay, allowances up for NCC officers, cadets

Now, e-reg istrationat all tehs ils

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Rs 5.01 lakh to Rs 50 lakh, service charges would be Rs 5,000, and for transaction value of more than Rs 50 lakh to Rs 1 crore, the service charg-es would be Rs 10,000.

In case the transaction value ex-ceeds Rs 1 crore, the service charges would be Rs 20,000. However, for each normal appointment, the service charges would be Rs 10.

Capt Abhimanyu said that for all types of deeds except General Power of Attorney, Special Power of Attor-ney and Will, the applicants shall have to visit the e-Disha Kendra after preparing the deed for taking the appointment with sub-registrar.

The timings for delivery of documents at e-Disha Kendras are from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. If the applicant desires to get the documents deliv-ered by post, the deed will be sent to him through Speed Post within three days, but he will have to deposit the postal charges.=

With a view to facilitating consumers under the Public Distribution Sys-

tem, the Haryana Government has decided to install a separate server for online distribution of ration.

Disclosing this to Haryana Review, The Minister of State for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Mr Karan Dev Kamboj, said that different types of government works other than distribution of ration could also be carried out at the ration depots through the point of sale devices. The government would have the option of carrying out disbursal of social security pensions, payment of electricity bills and conduct various types of surveys using these devices.

“As the National Informatics Centre (NIC) carries out various activities, sometimes its server fails disrupting online distribution of

ration. The installation of a sep-arate server would ensure timely distribution of ration and make the process completely transparent”, Mr Kamboj said.

Mr Kamboj said with a view to tackling the menace of malnu-trition in women and children, a pilot project would be launched in Barara and Naraingarh blocks of Ambala district under which forti-fied wheat flour would be distrib-uted in association with HAFED. The Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, has approved a proposal to this effect and HAFED has been directed to increase the capacity of its flour mill.

Haryana would be made kero-sene-free by providing cooking gas connections to all families living below the poverty line under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana by March 31, 2017, he added.=

Separate server for ration distribution

Now, e-reg istrationat all tehs ils


Pravasi attempt pays off

The Pravasi Haryana Divas-2017 celebrations at Gurugram served the objectives of garnering investment, showcasing the state as a cynosure of investing eyes, and connecting Pravasi Haryanvis with their roots

The two-day event draws 400 NRIs from 33 countries;MoUs worth Rs 20,000 crore signed

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PARVEEN K MODI

The Haryana Government continues to live up to its pen-chant for pulling off successes,

one after the other. Yet another of its maiden attempts has reaped rich dividends. The Pravasi Haryana Diwas-2017 celebrations, organised at Gurugram on January 10 and 11, served the three-fold objective of showcasing happening Haryana as a cynosure of all investing eyes, both domestic and global, garner-

ing investment, and connecting the Haryanvis, settled abroad as well as in other states, with their roots.

That the two-day event was a runaway success is more than under-scored by the decision of the Mano-har Lal Government to hold Pravasi Haryana Diwas every two years. The response from Haryana diaspora was as overwhelming as inquisitive were their queries on the land of opportu-nities Haryana has come to be known for. The message ‘Haryana is the place to invest in’ having gone home,

Mr Piyush Goyal, Union Minister for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, lighting a lamp to inaugurate Pravasi Haryana Divas 2017 at Gurugram. Looking on are Mr Manohar Lal, Haryana Chief Minister, and Mr Ram Bilas Sharma, Education Minister


many prominent NRIs pledged their commitment to be part of the state’s growth story.

Summing up major takeaways, the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, told Haryana Review that 24 MoUs involv-ing potential investment of Rs 20,000 crore, were signed during the Pravasi Haryana Divas celebrations. These would provide employment opportu-nities to as many as 43,000 persons. Twenty-three Pravasi Haryanvis of-fered to invest Rs 17 crore in various philanthropic works, to boot.

It may be recalled that during the Global Investors Summit held last March, 360 MoUs were signed out of which 100 have already matured and units are being set up. These MoUs involved investment of Rs 1 lakh crore.

Describing the first-ever Pravasi Haryana Divas as a big draw and a

A folk artist offers traditional welcome at the Kingdom of Dreams, venue of the Pravasi Haryana Divas 2017


huge success, Mr Manohar Lal said it was attended by 400 non-resident Indians (NRIs) from as many as 33 countries, and 300 others who hail from Haryana but are presently set-tled in other states of the country.

Giving a measure of its success, the Chief Minister said the event not only helped in garnering investment proposals in the shape of MoUs, but also facilitated further strengthening of the roots of Pravasi Haryanvis with the state of their origin.

WINDOW ON THE STATEMore importantly, it opened for them a broad window on the state of their belonging. Enthused and inspired by better-than-expected response, the state government is now toying with the idea of holding the Pravasi Haryana Divas and Global Investors Summit together next time.

The companies which signed MoUs for setting up units include AICORPS Enterprises Private Lim-ited, Association of Indian Medical Device Industry, Four Fresh Retail Private Limited, Fujikura, H.K. Re-alitors Private Limited, HBSS USA, India Association-Shaoxing China, Janani Foods Private Limited, Kooh Sports Private Limited, KVG Agro, Machino Plastics Limited, Man-

A section of the audience

A directory on Pravasi Haryanvis being released


Prof Kaptan Singh Solanki, Haryana Governor, and Mr Manohar Lal, Chief Minister, honouring Deepa Malik at Gurugram


kind Pharma, Oppo Mobiles, Saina Nehwal Badminton Academy, Sismo Technology India Private Limited, Tanisha Aright Rays, Ultra Fairwood Private Limited, Fairwood Holding Private Limited, Verbind (WTC), World Education Foundation, Silver Lining Group, KP Education, Sparkle Auto Private Limited and Brit Hi-Tech Private Limited

To facilitate influx and make things easy, the Chief Minister announced that two NRI cells would be set up to safeguard their interests. Besides, sectoral policies, including Aerospace and Defence Policy, IT and ESDM Policy, Retail Policy, Start-Up and Innovation Policy, Textile Policy and Food Processing Policy, would be framed soon to put focus on these segments of the economy.

In fact, the celebrations got off to n number of announcements. The Union Textiles Minister, Mrs Smriti Irani, announced to set up a Carpet Cluster at Panipat and Hosiery Clus-ter in Sirsa. Besides, as a part of its initiative, the Central Government would support a trade facility centre in Panipat. It would also support major design initiative so that apart from weaving industries, Haryana can have a huge influx into the indus-try, and ensure that the second and third generation takes the legacy of Panipat forward.

HOSIERY CLUSTER FOR SIRSASirsa district produces about 40 per cent of cotton in Haryana. “If we seek to enlarge the component of industry and strengthen their base in conjunction with famers, I am hope-ful that, we in Government of India, and, with the support of Government of Haryana, can soon open a special hosiery cluster only for the district of Sirsa so that the state could have more employment opportunities”, Mrs Irani said.

Lauding the contribution of Gurugram in the export of ready-made garments, she urged Parvasi Haryanvis to be a part of Sweh Prerit Adarsh Gram Yojna and contribute to the development of the state. This will not only help in strengthening industry but would also make the bond of humanity strong.

Dancers perform a number

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The Union Minister of Steel, Mr Birender Singh, said India is the third largest producer of steel fol-lowed by Japan but as per the recent data, the country would surpass Japan in steel production in the next few months.

Stressing the need for setting up scrap- based steel production units, he said the Central Government planned to come out with a policy in this regard. Pravasi Haryanvis

should come up with projects to make steel from

scrap

as it is not only cost effective but also environment-friendly, he added.

Though industrialisation is con-sidered to be the only way to move forward yet the contribution of farm-ing community in the development process cannot be minimised. Like Haryana and Punjab, the farmers in Australia and other Latin American countries too have similar attach-ment with land. Of late, complete transformation has taken place in farm techniques, and expedient steps should be taken to acquaint our farmers with the latest know-how

to increase production. Though a small state with only

two

per cent of total population of the country, Haryana contributes 23 per cent of food grains to the national kitty, he added.

Exhorting the Pravasi Haryanvis to connect with their roots, he said Haryana offered a great potential in youth power, and given support, they could produce best of shooters, wrestlers and athletes. Their signif-icant contribution would be of great help in ensuring speedy develop-ment of Haryana.

Earlier, Haryana Industries Minis-ter, Mr Vipul Goel, said the first ever Pravasi Divas had reignited passion among the NRIs to contribute to the development of Haryana. There was

a time when they left Haryana for other places to ex-

plore

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business opportunities but lot of water has flown down the hatch gates of Yamuna since then, and the entire country is now looking at Haryana.

Haryana offers ample opportuni-ties and Parvasi Haryanvis should come forward and become a partner in the development of the state and also increase their business. Apart from making investment here, they could also register their significant contribution by ensuring socio-eco-nomic development of villages under the Swa-Prerit Adarsh Gram Yojna.

Mr Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Vice-President, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), was all praise for the vision of the Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, saying the coun-try had entered the ‘mission-mode’ and emerged as the largest recipient of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

last year. Haryana’s FDI flow has touched $ 62 billion since 2000 and the state is now shifting to a new phase of rapid development.

Owing to the dynamic policy initiatives of the state government, the Ease of Doing Business ranking has improved from 14th position to 6th rank. The CII has been working closely with the Haryana Gov-ernment to improve productivity, generate employment and improve the plight of the underprivileged sections of society.

DYNAMIC LEADERSHIPThe partnership between the two will continue to grow and strengthen as the state moves forward under the dynamic leadership of the Chief Minister, Mr Mittal said, urging the diaspora to contribute to the develop-

ment of their motherland.While noted singer Sonu Nigam

assured the Chief Minister all help in promoting performing arts in the state, Senator, New Jersey, USA, Ms. Linda Greenstein, sent a memento and a special message, which was read out to the participants.

In her message, the Senator said about 30 industrialists from New Jersey were participating in the Pravasi Haryana Divas-2017 celebra-tions. She expressed the hope that the Haryana Government would join hands with New Jersey in promot-ing trade and commerce.

Given the extent of participation and the level of enthusiasm reflected in the interest evinced by Pravasi Haryanvis, the state can reasonably look forward to greater influx of investment in areas more than one.=

A view of the entry to the Kingdom of Dreams

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PARVEEN K MODI

The various sectoral sessions organised to mark the Pravasi Haryana Divas 2017 at Guru-

gram not only offered the attendees focused and micro view on different subjects but also turned out to be highly informative, educative and rewarding. The subjects these ses-sions focused on ranged from health, education and sports, and IT, ITes

and ESDM.

A PAT ON THE BACKSpeaking at the session on “Health, Education and Sports – Improving Indicators: Moving in Right Direc-tion”, the Haryana Health Minister, Mr Anil Vij, said with a view to ensuring excellent health services to the people, the Haryana Govern-ment was making concerted efforts to deploy one doctor for every 1,000

persons. The current figure stands at one doctor per 1,700 persons. He urged Pravasi Haryanvis to deepen their connection with their roots by investing in Haryana in the fields of health and education.

Lauding the efforts being made by the private sector, including non-gov-ernmental organisations, and social and educational institutions, to promote and develop education and health in Haryana, Mr Vij said

One doc for every 1,000 patients our goal: Vij

Mr Anil VijHaryana Health Minister

Mr Ravi Shankar PrasadUnion Minister of Electronics and

Information Technology

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concerted efforts made by the state government in this regard had start-ed yielding positive results. These include 20 per cent increase in the number of patients availing them-selves of the OPD facility, and im-provement in the sex ratio at birth, which has crossed the 900-mark.

Most work of the Health De-partment and data of patients was being made online to streamline the process. Health services are being provided at affordable rates. Work has been started on providing MRI and dialysis facilities in all districts, and catheterisation laboratories are being set up in four districts as a part of a pilot project, he added.

The Secretary, Department of Health Research, Government of India, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan,

said with a view to preventing occurrence of cervical cancer, she had urged the Haryana Government

to consider including Human Papil-loma Virus (HPV) vaccine in its im-munisation campaign on the pattern of several other states. Two doses of the vaccine should be administered to girls aged 11 and 12 years.

Speaking in the presence of the Haryana Health Minister, Dr Swamintahan said the vaccine was already available in the private sec-tor. However, as it is expensive but has proved to be highly effective in reducing the possibility of occur-rence of cervical cancer, the govern-ment should ensure that it is made accessible to all. Cancer screening should also be carried out.

In view of the increase in prev-alence of non-communicable or lifestyle diseases, the government should launch a campaign for screening of parameters such as blood pressure, blood sugar and body mass index. She also laid stress on the change in diet and exercise pat-terns in states with ghee-rich tradi-tional cuisines, including Haryana, in view of the changing lifestyle.

Dr Swaminathan also stressed the need for identifying and addressing increasing incidences of nutritional deficiencies and urged the Health Minister to support research in med-ical colleges in the state.

18 CLUSTERS IN 400 TOWNSSpeaking at the sectoral session on “IT-ITeS and ESDM: The next era of State’s Growth and Innovation”, the Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad, said given the focus on electronics manufacturing, the Central Government planned to set up 18 clusters in 400 towns and cities across the country. India’s electron-ics manufacturing market would be of $ 400 billion by 2020.

He lauded the initiative taken by the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, and his government to promote IT services in the state.

“When I assumed the office of the Ministry of Electronics and Infor-mation Technology, the total exports of India which aggregated Rs 11,000 crore increased to Rs 1,26,000 crore by December, 2016. Indians have a passion for technology and the

digital eco system would change the future of the country”, he said.

Digital payment is going to create a new digital infrastructure in India for digital payments. Therefore, digital payment infrastructure and service would become a rising indus-try. A minimum of 10 million Point of Sale (POS) machines and industri-al machines were needed apart from mobile wallets.

POTENTIAL FOR INNOVATIONSMr Prasad said Haryana offered a great potential and possibilities for innovations in the fields of digital payment, internet, artificial intelli-gence, digital education and cyber security. These are great potential for small and middle level enter-prise to grow.

The number of mobile phones in India is equal to the population of France and Italy. About 42 mobile phone manufacturing companies and 30 component factories have been established in the country. India has nearly 105 crore mobile phones, 10 crore Aadhaar Cards, 500 billion internet connections and 350 billion smart phones.

Speaking on the occasion, Haryana Industries and Commerce Minister, Mr Vipul Goel, said optical fiber had been laid in 3,500 villages of the state. The Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, has launched BHIM App and the state government is making concerted efforts for its implementation in the state. Since digital literacy is vital for digital In-dia, the state government is working to develop the electronic and mobile sector, he added.=

Mr Vipul GoelHaryana Industries and

Commerce Minister

In view of the increase in prevalence of non-communicable or lifestyle diseases, the government plans to launch a campaign for screening of parameters such as blood pressure, blood sugar and body mass index

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HARYANA NEWS BUREAU

The Haryana Government has conferred Gaurav Samman on 19 Pravasi Haryanvis for

making outstanding contributions in their respective fields at the first-ever Pravasi Haryana Divas held in Gur-ugram. The awards were presented by the Union Minister of State for External Affairs, Gen. V.K. Singh (Retd.), Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Mr Krishan Pal, and the Haryana Chief Minister Mr Manohar Lal.

Picked up under various catego-ries, the awardees included noted

actor Mr Randeep Hooda and singer Mr Sonu Nigam. Those awarded in the entertainment and tourism category included Dr Lalit Shokeen, Principal Engineer, Global Foundries, New York, USA; in the social service category, Mr Mahendra Pal Chaudhry, former Prime Minister, Fiji, and Dr Subhash Chandra, Chairman, Essel Group of Companies, and Mr Balinder Singh Kundu, Touch International Inc, USA; in the art and culture category Ms Ritu Sheoran and Mr Vikas Sheoran, Melbourne, Australia; in health and education category, Mr Rajeev Gupta, Consult-ant Paediatrician, United Kingdom; in

trade and industry, Mr Ashok Kumar Mago, Founding Chairman, US-INDIA Chamber of Commerce, Dallas Texas, USA, Ms Vandana Luthra, Founder, VLCC Health Care LTD, Gurugram, and Mr Sandeep Chauhan, Managing Director and CEO, Singapore.

Special Achievement Award was given to Mr B L Chawla, father of Ms Kalpana Chawla (posthumously). In entertainment and tourism category the award was given to Mr Ritesh Agarwal, Founder and CEO-OYO Rooms; in health and education category, Mr Om Parkash Dhank-her, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; in IT,

Sonu Nigam, Randeep among19 get Gaurav Samman

Singer Sonu Nigam being presented with Gaurav Samman by the Chief

Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, at Gurugram

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engineering and services, Mr Pradeep Sindhu, founder, Vice-Chairman and CTO, Juniper Networks Inc, USA; Mr Punit Renjen, Global CEO, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, New York, United States and Mr Vinod Dham, Founding Managing Director, Indo-US Capital LLC, USA.

Sports personalities who were felicitated included former captain of Indian women’s cricket team, Ms Anjum Chopra, international athlete Mr Naveen Suhag, and former captain Indian women’s hockey team, Ms Mamta Kharab.

Speaking on the occasion, Gen V K Singh (Retd), stressed the need for taking strict action against such per-sons as duped innocent people on the pretext of sending them abroad. He outlined the vision of the present gov-ernment to provide all amenities in villages so that the villagers enjoyed high standards of living without hav-ing to move to urban areas.

The Chief Minister urged Pravasi Haryanvis to adopt villages under the Swa-prerit Adarsh Gram Yojana for

development, and encourage others to follow suit. The atmosphere in the state had changed tremendously over the last two years. The previous gov-ernments, instead of making the peo-ple socially aware, had misused them as mere vote banks and discriminated against them on the basis of region, caste and other such factors. But the present government has risen above petty politics and is working with the ideology of ‘Haryana Ek, Haryanvi Ek’, he added.

APPROVALS FAST-TRACKEDThe Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Mr Krishan Pal, said everyone lauded the present state government as the first one to serve the people without any self-interest. It has not only intro-duced a system for fast-tracking ap-provals of schemes, but also brought about a positive change in the attitude of officers. Haryana now enjoys the twin benefit of having a pro-active government as well as officers. He urged Pravasi Haryanvis to contrib-

ute towards the development of the state and invest here by availing themselves of the benefits being pro-vided by the Haryana Government.

Chairperson, CII Northern Region, Mrs Rumjhum Chatterjee, said the mega event had been organised with the objective to catalysing partner-ships in economic, social and cul-tural spheres. The participation by Pravasi Haryanvi business leaders and domestic industry leaders bears testimony to the immense interest in the opportunities the state offered.

Former Prime Minister, Fiji, Mr Mahendra Pal Chaudhry also spoke on this occasion. The Haryana Industries and Commerce Minister, Mr Vipul Goel, was also present on this occasion.

On this occasion, Gen V K Singh, Mr Krishan Pal, Mr Manohar Lal and Mr Vipul Goel also launched enter-tainment television channel ‘Andy Channel’, and released directories of Pravasi Haryanvis and delegates of Pravasi Haryana Divas, as well as of philanthropists.=

Actor Randeep Hooda being presented with Gaurav Samman by the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, at

Gurugram


International diplomacy has always kept a keen eye on the Indo-US relations. The presence of a vast Indian Diaspora in the States has also aided in the same. Ashok Kumar Mago, a Padma Shri and a winner of the Pravasi Bharti-ya Samman, is the Chairman & CEO of a business and investment consult-ing company named Mago and Associates based in Dallas, Texas, USA.

Mago has taken an active part in the Dallas Community through his work and has remained active in business, civic and community based organisa-tions. Mago has contributed immeasurably to the improvement of India-US business relations. He founded the Greater Dallas Indo-American Chamber of Commerce in 1999, which is now known as US-India Chamber of Com-merce. The Chamber of which, he served as the Chairman till 2003 has active-ly promoted trade and investment between India and USA.

Mago has tirelessly worked for strengthening US-India ties. He played a pivotal role in creation of an influential lobby of Senators for India, called Friends of India Caucus in the US Senate established by Senator John Cornyn of Texas and Senator Hillary Clinton. As a result of his efforts, no country other than India has an individual committee in the US Senate.

Mago’s unbending efforts were crucial to garnering support in the Unit-ed States congress for the successful conclusion of India-US civil nuclear deal. In a letter addressed to him in November 2008, the erstwhile Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh acknowledged his contributions for the nuclear deal.

In an effort to improve the quality of life for the underprivileged, he is an active contributor to several organisations such as Pratham, Ekal Vidyala and Akshay Patra. Also, through his tireless efforts, thousands of dollars have been sent to India for enhancing the quality of education for needy students.

In addition to the Padma Shri being awarded to him in 2014, Mago has the honour of being awarded by a number of notable institutions. In 1994, he was selected as a Distinguished Alumni from Leadership Dallas Alumni As-sociation. The year 1995, saw him being awarded with the Helen Keller Award and the Presidential Leadership Award by the prestigious Lions Sight and Tissue Foundation and the Lions Club International, respectively. Lions Club International again put a feather in his cap of awards by awarding him with President’s Award for Outstanding Service in the year 2007. In 2016, Univer-sity of Texas at Dallas awarded him with the Distinguished Alumni Award.

Mago is married to Mrs Monica Mago and together, the couple has two children, Ajay and Anita, and their grandchildren.

Subhash Chandra is an Indian media baron with interests in packaging, media, lottery and cinema. He is Chairman of Essel Group, an Indian conglomerate. He was former Chairman of India's TV channel network Zee Media, but resigned as Director & Non-Executive Chairman of the Company with effect from 24 May 2016. He has been elected to the Upper House of Indian parliament from the Haryana state in Rajya Sabha election, 2016. He has an honorary degree from University of East London (UEL).

Subhash Chandra was born on 30 November 1950 in a village in Hisar district, Haryana. In 1970, while he was studying in 10th grade he dropped out of school to join family business of commission agent and trader who procured and supplied rice to Food Corporation of India. In 1980s he started manufacturing flexible packaging (mainly plastic tubes) for toothpaste, etc. under the name Essel Packaging. He followed up with a leisure park Essel-World in north Mumbai, then known as Bombay. In 1992, he launched Zee Television, in collaboration with Li Ka Shing and first online lottery and first Dish TV in India.

Subhash Chandra was awarded an Honorary Doctor-ate of Business Administration from the University of East London (UEL). Chandra received the Doctorate from Lord Gulam Noon, the Chancellor of the University of East London, at the ceremony for their Royal Dock Busi-ness School graduates.

ASHOK KUMAR MAGOFounding Chairman

US-India Chamber of Commerce,USA &Chairman & CEO Mago and Associates, USA

SUBHASH CHANDRAHon’ble Member of Parliament

(Rajya Sabha) from Haryana

prof iles of gaurav sammaneeS 2017


prof iles of gaurav sammaneeS 2017

Pradeep Sindhu is Indian American Haryanvi entrepre-neur who is the co-founder and chief technical officer and vice chairman of the board of directors of Juniper Net-works Inc. He was also the CEO of the company until 1996.

Sindhu holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering (1974) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, M.S. in Electrical Engineering (1976) from the University of Hawaii, and a Ph.D (1982) in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University where he studied under Bob Sproull.

Sindhu had worked at the Computer Science Lab of Xerox PARC for 11 years. Sindhu worked on design tools for very-large-scale integration (VLSI) of integrated cir-cuits and high-speed interconnects for shared memory architecture multiprocessors.

Sindhu founded Juniper Networks along with Dennis Ferguson and Bjorn Liencres in February 1996 in Califor-nia. The company was subsequently reincorporated in Delaware in March 1998 and went public on June 25, 1999.

Sindhu worked on the architecture, design, and devel-opment of the Juniper M40 data router. His earlier work was to subsequently influence the architecture, design, and development of Sun Microsystems' first high-per-formance multiprocessor system family, which included systems such as the SS1000 and SC2000.

PRADEEP SINDHUVice Chairman & CTO

Juniper Network Inc., USA

Punit Renjen, born in 1961, Punit is an Indian American businessman who has served as Chief Executive Officer of the multinational professional services firm Deloitte since June 1, 2015. Previously, Renjen was chairman and CEO of Deloitte Consulting LLP, and later, held the role of chairman of Deloitte LLP (United States) from 2011 to 2015.

Renjen was raised in Rohtak, North India. After earning a Master of Man-agement from Oregon's Willamette University, he was hired by Touche Ross, which merged into Deloitte in 1989. He has worked at Deloitte and lived in the United States ever since.

Renjen has served on the boards of directors at Catlin Gabel School, Japan Society, United Way Worldwide, the U.S.-India Business Council, and his alma mater. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Renjen grew up in Rohtak, in Haryana, where his father had established an electrical switchgear factory. Around age seven, Renjen was sent to The Lawrence School, Sanawar, an autonomous public co-educational boarding school near Shimla, because his parents were seeking a better education for him than he was receiving in Rohtak. When Renjen was approximately four-teen years old, his father's business encountered financial difficulty, and the family's inability to continue paying for boarding school forced Renjen to return to Rohtak and work at the family factory part time.

Renjen attended a local college, where he earned his Bachelor's degree in economics. After graduating, Renjen worked for the Delhi-based home ap-pliance company Usha International. In 1984, he earned a Rotary Foundation Scholarship, affording him airfare to the United States and a full scholarship to Salem, Oregon's Willamette University. He earned his Master of Manage-ment from Willamette's Atkinson Graduate School of Management in 1986, and has lived in the United States ever since.

PUNIT RENJENGlobal CEO

Deloitte

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Vandana Luthra (born on 12th July, 1959) is an Indian entrepreneur and the founder of VLCC Health Care Ltd. a beauty and wellness conglomerate represented in Asia,the GCC and Africa.[2] She is also the Chairperson of the Beauty & Wellness Sector Skill Council (B&WSSC), an initiative that provides training under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana. She was honored by the Government of India in 2013 with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for her contribution to the fields of trade and industry. She won the Asian Business Leaders Forum Trailblazer Award in 2012 and The Enterprise Asia Women Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2010. She has been ranked 26th in the distinguished annual Forbes Asia 50 Power Businesswomen in the APAC region (which includes Asia, Australia and New Zealand). She has also featured in the prestigious Fortune magazine’s annual listing of the ‘50 Most Powerful Women in Business in India’ for five years in a row – from 2011 to 2015

Vandana Luthra was born in New Delhi in 1959. Her father was a mechanical engineer and her mother ran a charitable yoga ash-ram with an Ayurveda doctor, called Amar Jyoti. She completed her graduation from the Polytechnic for Women in New Delhi. She lat-er went on to gain expertise in beauty, fitness, food and nutrition and skin care from Germany, UK and France. She married Mukesh Luthra in 1980 and Vandana started VLCC in 1989, as a beauty and slimming services centre in Safdarjung Development Area, New Delhi, when her elder daughter was only three years old.

Vandana actively helps the underprivileged and the physically challenged by providing them scholarships for free education. She is Vice Chairperson of the NGO, Khushii, which has projects like telemedicine centres, a remedial school with midday meal facility catering to 3,000 children, and a vocational training facility. She is patron of the Amar Jyoti Charitable Trust, which pioneered the concept of educating children with and without disability in equal number from nursery to class VIII. The Trust now has over 800 children in its 2 schools.

Mahendra Pal Chaudhry, born on 9 February 1942 is an Indo-Fijian and the leader of the Fiji Labour Party. Following a historic election in which he defeated the long-time former leader, Sitiveni Rabu-ka, the former trade union leader became Fiji's first Indo-Fijian Prime Minister on 19 May 1999, but exactly one year later, on 19 May 2000 he and most of his Cabinet were taken hostage by coup leader George Speight, in the Fiji coup of 2000. Unable to exercise his du-ties, he and his ministers were sacked by President Ratu Sir Kamis-ese Mara on 27 May; Mara intended to assume emergency powers himself but was himself deposed by the military leader, Commo-dore Frank Bainimarama. After 56 days in captivity, Chaudhry was released on 13 July and subsequently embarked on a tour of the world to rally support. He was one of the leading voices raised in op-position to the Qarase Government's proposed Reconciliation and Unity Commission, which he said was just a mechanism to grant amnesty to persons guilty of coup-related offences. In January 2007 he was appointed as Minister of Finance, Sugar Reform Public En-terprise and National Planning in the interim Cabinet of Commo-dore Frank Bainimarama, following another coup. Chaudhry was also co-chair of the task force focusing on economic growth within the National Council for Building a Better Fiji. In 2008, he left the government and became an outspoken critic of it.

Mahendra Chaudhry's ancestral ties are with the village of Bahu Jamalpur in Rohtak District of Haryana. His grandfather, Ram Nath Chaudhry, a Hindu Jat,, arrived in Fiji in 1902, as an inden-tured labourer, to work on Fiji's sugarcane plantations. On his ar-rival in Fiji he disputed the agreement to work in the plantations and was employed as a store manager until he started his own busi-ness. Chaudhry has been married to Virmati since 1965; they have three children and several grandchildren.

In 2004, Chaudhry received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, which is granted to members of the Indian diaspora to honor their contributions to the countries of which they are members. Chaudhry was the first Fijian citizen to receive this award.

On 20 November 2005, Chaudhry's youngest son Sachindra married Marian Ma’afu, a descendant of the Tongan-Fijian prince Enele Ma’afu who conquered the Lau Islands and Taveuni in the nineteenth century.

VANDANA LUTHRAFounder

VLCC Healthcare Ltd

MAHENDRA PAL CHAUDHRYEx-Prime Minister

Fiji

RAVI SHARMARadio Jockey

Lyca MediaLondon, UK

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BALINDER SINGH KUNDUTouch International Inc,

USA

SANDEEP CHAUHANManaging Director & CEO

Dreymoor Fertilizers Overseas Pvt Ltd

Ravi Sharma is a popular Indian radio jockey in London, who is working with Lyca Media London. He started his career in 1978 with All India Radio Rohtak, India. He completed his post-graduation from Kurukshetra University.

Ravi Sharma is famous for his heavy voice, his character impersonations (imi-tation of popular Indian / Bollywood and Holly wood Actors as well as creating new characters from real life) and his sense of humor.

He has hosted a number of shows on BBC Channel, Sunrise TV and many other channels. Some of his popular shows being Manoranjan (Morning Show) and Naugh-ty But Nice Show.

His shows attract an average weekly au-dience in London of more than One Lakh that consist largely of the middle aged & elderly, who flood him with letters, phone calls and Indian Sweets.

Ravi Sharma performs all kinds of plays & rituals for any occasion, event, reason. He is a brilliant Stage hoster and Actor with a very high level of energy and posi-tive vibes.

As a Pravasi Haryanvi settled in USA for over a quarter century, the Haryanvi values such as hospitality, geniality, good Samar-itans, etc have been ingrained in him. Dur-ing the last 26+ years, Balinder has stayed in regular touch with the people, govern-ment officials, civic leaders, educationists, and common people from Haryana. His selfless services have always been available to anyone from India.

He has played a pivotal role as a cul-tural ambassador of Haryana, and have been recognised numerous times for his efforts. It gives us great pleasure in recog-nizing the immense personal gratification and pride he ‘gives back to all’ for the land where he grew up. Balinder has been en-ergetically involved in a myriad of social activities throughout his life, some note-worthy among them include

As part of the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao movement, he organised an exclusive girls wrestling event (dangal) in his native vil-lage Titoli near Rohtak – first in Haryana.

About 25 years ago, he co-founded the North American Jat Charities, a non-profit organisation dedicated to educating fi-nancially-challenged children from rural areas. Thus far, he and his affiliates have provided several million rupees in scholar-ships to hundreds of kids.

He has served multiple terms as Pres-ident of the American Jat Association, a non-profit cultural organisation of over 1000 families in US and Canada. He is also the President of Haryana Association of North America.

As a successful entrepreneur, he has also founded the Global Haryana Chamber of Commerce in USA dedicated to creat-ing a mutually beneficial business envi-ronment between Haryana and US and to harness enormous untapped potential for businesses.

Sandeep Chauhan, the Managing Director & CEO of Dreymoor Fertilizers Overseas Pte Ltd is an Entrepreneur and Fertilizer Trader of International repute trading for last 21 years. He has been instrumental in taking his company from a small regional trading firm of Europe to an international powerhouse and amongst the first five in-ternational fertilizer trading companies in the world.

Sandeep has all along maintained his love and relations with his roots in Har-yana and India, visiting his hometown more than a couple of times every year to be amongst his family and friends. It is his love for his family and traditions that made him bring his then to be wife and her family to India to have his wedding as per “Indian Rituals” and amongst his family and friends.

From initial years of earning, Sandeep was involved in social contribution like or-ganizing aid for Refugees in Russia from former Yugoslavia and in later years in-volved in looking after Animal Welfare in Russia.

Sandeep’s company Dreymoor Fertiliz-ers Overseas Pte Ltd, with 20 offices world-wide and an annual turnover in excess of US Dollars 1.3 Billion in the year 2015, is a Singaprore registered company and a recipient of Global Trader status awarded by the Import / Export Enterprise of Gov-ernment of Singapore in the year 2010. It is Sandeep’s love for his land that makes Dreymoor Fertilizers Overseas Pte Ltd give attention and pride of place to India out of its 20 worldwide offices.

In present times of tight schedules and the demanding responsibilities of man-aging an enterprise with offices spread across five continents, Sandeep always has time for his family, friends and Indian roots.

RAVI SHARMARadio Jockey

Lyca MediaLondon, UK


RITESH AGARWALFounder and CEO

OYO Rooms

RANDEEP HOODABollywood Actor

Mumbai

Ritesh is the founder and CEO at OYO Rooms. He was selected for the 20 under 20 Thiel Fellowship which makes him one of the very few Indians to have been short-listed. He started working early in his life at the age of 13 and by 18 he was building OYO Rooms.

This 19-year-old had traveled for months staying at budget hotels, attend-ed customer calls everyday and immersed himself in every possible experience to learn about budget hotel customers and their expectations. That was the kind of on-the-ground learning that helped him pivot Oravel to Oyo.

Ritesh started his entrepreneurial jour-ney when he was 17 years old. He dropped out of college and launched his first start‐up Oravel Stays Pvt. Ltd. in the year 2012. Oravel was designed as a platform to en-able listing and booking of budget accom-modation. Being an avid traveler, he soon realised that the budget hospitality sector lacked predictability. Therefore, he pivot-ed Oravel to OYO Rooms in 2013 with the key proposition of offering affordable and standardised accommodation.

According to a research carried out by CB Insights for The New York Times, OYO Rooms is among the companies that may be the next start-up unicorns. The compa-ny is backed by investors like the Softbank Group, Greenoaks Capital, Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed India.

Some of his accomplishments are:• Awarded the TiE-Lumis Entrepre-

neurial Excellence Award (2014)• The first resident Asian to win ’20

Under 20’ Thiel Fellowship (2013)• Named one of the Top 50 En-

trepreneurs by TATA First Dot Awards (2013)

• Finalist of Global Student Entre-preneurship Awards-India

• Named one of the ‘8 Hottest Teen-age Start Up Founders in the World’ by Business Insider (2013)

• World’s Youngest CEO at 17 (rec-ognised at 16)

Randeep Hooda was born on 20 August 1976 in Rohtak, Haryana. He studied at the Motilal Nehru School at Sonepat, where he began acting in school productions, and later studied for a postgraduate degree in human resource management in Mel-bourne, Australia. He returned to India and began modelling and acting in stage productions.

Hooda made his Bollywood debut in Monsoon Wedding in 2001, and he gar-nered praise for his performance. His next project was Ram Gopal Varma's D (2005), and he then worked on a series of critically and commercially unsuccessful projects. He then starred in the commercially suc-cessful Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (2010) and was subsequently noted for his performance in Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster (2011), which earned him an IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. He garnered further critical acclaim for his role in Imtiaz Ali's drama Highway (2014) and Omung Kumar's biographical drama Sarbjit (2016). Hooda's other notable films include Jism 2 (2012), Murder 3 (2013), Kick (2014), and Rang Rasiya (2014).

In addition to his film career, Hooda has acted in numerous stage plays and made his debut as a playwright with an adaptation of Lee Blessing's A Walk in the Woods. He is a professional equestrian who regularly participates in polo, show jumping and dressage events. He won a silver medal at an open dressage event in New Delhi that was organised by the Equestrian Federation of India. Hooda is also an activist and a blogger.

Dr Lalit Shokeen is an Indian scientist and comedian in America. Lalit lives in Ameri-ca with his whole family and some Indian friends. Lalit loves comedy and one day he started making funny videos in Haryanvi language for Indian comedy lovers and the audience appreciated his videos and now Lalit Shokeen is a famous Indian comedi-an on Facebook and Youtube.

His fans have always been waiting for his next video. L Shokeen Facebook Fan Page is @lshokeenfilms. Lalit posts all his funny videos on this page and his Youtube channel is LShokeen Films. All the charac-ters in Lalit Shokeen videos are his family members and friends.

Lalit Shokeen was born in Haryana. Lalit completed his education in PhD Phys-ics/Materials Engineering from Orlando, Florida. Now he lives in Clifton Park, New York, USA with his family. His wife Neha Shokeen is also a comedian and she helps him to create funny videos. Lalit & Neha have a daughter named Netanya Shokeen.

Dr Lalit Shokeen is working as Princi-pal Engineer (Technology Development) at Globalfoundries in Malta, New York. He is working in the field of Semicon-ductors.

LALIT SHOKEEN Principal Engineer

GlobalfoundriesUSA


Vinod Dham is an inventor, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is popularly known as the Father of the Pentium chip, for his contribution to the development of highly successful Pentium pro-cessors from Intel. He is a mentor, advisor and investor; and sits on the boards of many companies including promising startups funded through his India-based fund – Indo US Venture Partners, where he is the founding Managing Director.

After completing his B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering (now known as Delhi Technological University) in 1971, he joined Continental Devices as an engineer. In 1975, he went to University of Cincinnati, Ohio US, to pursue an MS degree in electrical engineering solid state electronics. After completing his MS degree in 1977, he joined NCR Corporation at Dayton, Ohio, as an engineer, where he did cutting-edge work in developing advanced non-volatile memories. He then joined Intel, as an engineer, where he led the development of the world-famous Pentium processor. He is called the "Father of Pentium" for his role in the development of the Pentium processor. He is also one of the co-inventors of Intel’s first Flash memory technology (ETOX). He rose to the position of Vice-President of microprocessor group at Intel.

In 995, he joined a startup NexGen, which was acquired by AMD. Dham played an instrumental role in the launch of K6 – the "Pentium killer" processor at rival AMD and becam vice president of AMD's Computation Products Group. He then went on to lead a nascent startup, Silicon Spice in April 1998, which he redirected to build a VOIP Chip and later sold it to Broadcom in 2000. He then launched an incubator NewPath Ventures, where he co–found-ed companies with an objective of using India’s emerging talent in chip design for R&D. He is currently a Managing Director and founder of Indo US Venture Partners, an early stage India focused fund that he founded after NewPath. Dham has over the years been a Board member and an advisor to dozens of private and public companies.

In Feb 2015 Dham announced his return to entrepreneurship as the Co Founder and CEO of Acadgild, on online educational plat-form he co-founded along with India's storied entrepreneur duo - Krishnan Ganesh and Meena Ganesh of Tutor Vista fame with an aim to teach just about anybody. Acadgild provides live mentoring and hands-on engagement for building real applications for its stu-dents. It will also include building two applications, thus preparing the students for job ready skills and a more effective way for their perspective employers to evaluate them.

Sonu Nigam is an Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured mainly in Hindi and Kannada. He has also sung in Gujara-ti, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Tulu, Odia, Nepali, Maithili and various Indian languages. He has also released Indian pop albums and act-ed in a number of films. He has been one of the highest paid Indi-an singers. His singing style is considered similar to the legendary Mohd. Rafi whom he also considers his motivation. He has come into limelight through the Kannada film Mungaru Male (2006), which set several records in Indian cinema.

Sonu Agam Kumar Nigam was born on 30 July 1973 to Agam Ku-mar Nigam and Shobha Agam Kumar Nigam in the city of Farid-abad, Haryana.

Nigam began his singing career at the age of four, when he joined his father Agam Kumar Nigam on stage to sing Mohammed Rafi's song "Kya hua tera wada". From then on, Nigam accompa-nied his father on his singing appearances at weddings and parties. He moved to Mumbai with his father to begin his Bollywood sing-ing career at the age of 18. He was trained by Hindustani classical singer Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan.

Nigam married Madhurima Agam Kumar Nigam on 15 Febru-ary 2002.

VINOD DHAMFounding Managing Director

Indo-US Capital LLC, USA

SONU NIGAMPlayback Singer

Mumbai


Prof. Om Parkash Dhankher is a native of Bakheta village in Rohtak district. He received his B.Sc. (Medical) degree from Maharishi Dayanand University Rohtak and M.Sc. and M.Phil degrees from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana. He taught at the All India Jat Heroes Memorial College Rohtak as a Lecturer in Bota-ny Department from 1988-1994. In 1994, he received the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship from the British Council for pursuing Ph.D. studies in Plant Biotechnology from Durham University, Durham (United Kingdom). In 1998, he moved to the United States and now currently working as a Professor of Agriculture Biotech-nology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

He is the world-renowned expert in the field of Agriculture Bio-technology and is the pioneer in developing the technologies for re-mediation of arsenic from soil and water, crop improvements and currently his research team is developing ‘Climate Smart Crops” using biotechnological approaches. Prof. Dhankher has published more than 80 research papers in top International journals, 2 books, and 5 International Patents. Prof. Dhankher has received several outstanding awards and honors for his cutting-edge re-search in the field of Agriculture and environmental Biotechnol-ogy. He is the Editor and Associate Editor for four International Journals. Prof. Dhankher is the Foreign Fellow of the Indian Society of Plant Physiology and an elected Vice President of the Interna-tional Phytotechnologies Society. He has delivered more than 100 lectures and conference presentations in more than 20 countries.

Prof. Dhankher is playing a leading role in developing specif-ic bilateral collaboration and getting the memorandum of agree-ments (MOA) signed between the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Maharishi Dayanand University Rohtak, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, IIT Delhi and IIT Mumbai. He has provided opportunities to numerous students from India, particu-larly from Haryana, for Ph.D. and postdoctoral research associates positions in his laboratory. Since 2011, he is also the President of the Pioneer Valley Indian Association in Western Massachusetts.

Rajeev Gupta is consultant paediatrician in national health service for 13 years and professor, assessment adviser royal college of pae-diatrics & child health UK for 4 years, Council member and Trustee of the Royal College of paediatrics for 3 years, Chairman of Region-al Council of British Medical Association for 3 years, Chairman of Regional Consultants Committee, Chief Investigator and UK Na-tional Coordinator for drug trail in gastroenteritis.

He has been awarded Joan Dawkins Trust Millennium Bursary Grant by British Medical Association for Medical Education, 2000, Gastroenterology Fellowship 2001 of Juntendo University and Japa-nese Endoscopy Foundation Tokyo. He has received the best Teach-er and firm of the year award 2006, Medical Society, University of Sheffield, Clinical Excellence Awards, Nine awards from the Na-tional Health Service for performance over and above requirement.

HEART Award March 2010 for outstanding personal achieve-ment in field of clinical leadership and clinical medicine. The award is judged for Helpfulness, Excellence, Achievement, Resourceful-ness and Talent, given on recommendation of CEO for going be-yond the call of duty.

“Glory of India Award” in London on 25th September 2010 for distinguished work by and person of Indian Origin being outstand-ing and leaving a mark.

“Outstanding Personal Service Award”- given at Birmingham international Centre by British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, on 4th June 2011 for service beyond expectation for overseas doctors and outstanding contribution to mentoring and education nationally and internationally.

HEART Award June 2012 for team leading improved patient care through “Together We Make It Better”.

GOLD AWARD 9th July 2012, given by CEO of NHS Sir David Nicholson for improving well being of National Health Service em-ployees.

Patient Choice Award , 6th June 2014 HEART AWARD, for excel-lence in patient care.

Life Time Achievement Award, 25th July 2014 at House of Com-mons, UK Parliament for work on education, coaching students, young adults and emotionally vulnerable people.

General Practice Team Award December 2015 - Weight Man-agement Team, for development of Double Integration Innovative Model and effective implementation, Chairman international busi-ness federation.

OM PARKASH DHANKHERAssociate Professor in Agriculture Biotechnology

Stockbridge School of Agriculture

RAJEEV GUPTAConsultant Paediatrician

BABA RAM DEVFounder

Patanjali AyurvedaHaridwar

HARYANA REVIEW FEBRUARY 2017 33COVER STORY - GAURAV SAMMAN PROFILES

BABA RAM DEVFounder

Patanjali AyurvedaHaridwar

KALPANA CHAWLAPosthumously

Baba Ram Dev was born in 1965 in Alipur in Mahendragarh district of Haryana. He is a yoga teacher known for his work in Ayurve-da, business, politics and agriculture. He is best known for popularising yoga among Indians through his mass yoga camps. He founded the Patanjali Group of Institu-tions. Ramdev has more recently become interested in Indian political issues.

Ramdev was born to Ram Niwas Ya-dav and Gulabo Devi. He studied Indian scriptures, Yoga and Sanskrit in various gurukuls. He became a sanyasi and adopt-ed the name Swami Ramdev. While living in Kalwa Gurukul in Jind district, Haryana, he offered free yoga training to villagers for some time. He then moved to Harid-war in Uttarakhand, where he practiced intense self-discipline and meditation and spent several years studying ancient Indi-an scriptures at Gurukul Kangri Vishwav-idyalaya.

He founded the Divya Yog Mandir Trust in 1995. In 2003,Aastha TV began featuring him in its morning yoga slot. There he proved to be telegenic and gained a large following. A large number of peo-ple and many celebrities in India and abroad have attended his yoga camps. He has taught yoga to many actors including Amitabh Bachchan and Shilpa Shetty. He addressed Muslim clerics at their seminary in Deoband, Uttar Pradesh and has taught yoga in countries including Britain, the United States and Japan. In 2006, he was invited by Kofi Annan to deliver a lecture on poverty alleviation in a United Nations conference. Yogi Haider considered the face of yoga in Pakistan, says that his am-bition is to emulate Ram Dev Baba and popularise yoga amongst Pakistanis.

The Sheorans started a Face Book page in order to create awareness about Haryanvi culture in rest of the world & surprisingly in less than 1 year managed to reach mil-lions of people and on daily basis started receiving thousands of feedback from Non Haryanvi people that they like them and the haryanvi dialect/culture very much & so many even want to learn it. This mo-tivates them further to continue raising awareness about the state and its culture in rest of the world and are positive of reaching further heights.

Sheorans are very active members of the Indian community, work as radio jockey and create events for Indian ladies, manage a group of approximately 2000 la-dies here.

Together in last 1 year they have created huge awareness and popularity about Har-yana and its culture in millions of haryan-vis & non Haryanvis with help of our short videos throughout the globe, especially the young generation who has shown tremen-dous interest in Haryana and its people & started loving it.

Kalpana Chawla was an Indo-American astronaut and the first woman of Indian origin in space. She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission spe-cialist and primary robotic arm operator. In 2003, Chawla was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Co-lumbia disaster.

Kalpana Chawla was born on March 17, 1962. Her official date of birth was altered to 1 July 1961 to allow her to join school underage. While other children of her age dressed their Barbie dolls, Kalpana liked to draw pictures of airplanes. She was not always a topper but had a very inquisitive mind. She moved to the United States in 1982 where she obtained a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1984. Determined to become an astro-naut even in the face of the Challenger disaster, Chawla went on to earn a second Masters in 1986 and a PhD in aerospace engineering in 1988 from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

In 1988, she began working at the NASA Ames Research Center, where she did Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) research on Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing concepts. In 1993, she joined Overset Methods, Inc. as Vice President and Research Scientist specializing in sim-ulation of moving multiple body problems. Chawla held a Certificated Flight Instruc-tor rating for airplanes, gliders and Com-mercial Pilot licenses for single and mul-ti-engine airplanes, seaplanes and gliders. Becoming a naturalised US citizen in April 1991, Chawla applied for the NASA Astro-naut Corps. She joined the Corps in March 1995 and was selected for her first flight in 1996. She spoke the following words while traveling in the weightlessness of space, "You are just your intelligence". She trave-led 10.67 million km, as many as 252 times around the Earth.

RITU SHEORAN &VIKAS SHEORAN

SheoransAustralia

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V UMASHANKAR, IAS

Gurugram has grown tre-mendously over the last two decades. Its emergence as an

automotive hub followed by boom-ing boom in the IT services sector led to rapid urbanisation. Guru-gram provided a standard of living

unparalleled in its neighbourhood. The fast pace of urbanisation in Gurugram threw up a whole new set of challenges in urban governance structure. High standards of living in licensed colonies developed side-by-side with overgrown villages.

The spread of licensed colonies in the last decade created a set of

development liabilities and resulted in infrastructural backlog. The city was least prepared to confront the issues of traffic, transport and envi-ronment. Multiplicity of government institutions involved in delivery of urban services created its own set of problems including overlap and interfaces between the institutions.

GMDA set to redefine urban governance

The GMDA will redefine urban governance model for tackling the problems of a rapidly growing 21st century city, and be the landmark for other parts of the country

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The pot of problems boiled over with slump in the real estate sec-tor, slowing down of employment opportunities, lag in infrastructure development and inability of civic agencies to deal with the issues of a rising mega-city. The growing moun-tain of accumulated problems bred dissatisfaction in the citizenry, the fact of a phenomenon which could hardly be glossed over.

It was in this context that the Har-yana Government decided to set up a city-level development agency, the first of its kind in Haryana. The Gu-rugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) owes its origin to the pains of rapid urbanisation and development. The announcement of the Chief Minister was followed by the appointment of an officer tasked with the responsibility of creating a new architecture for urban govern-ance to deal with n number of issues through public consultations.

A draft Bill was placed in the public domain on November 1, 2016. Public consultations were held and views were obtained from over 250 residents who participated in the consultations. In addition, online feedback was received from 59 resi-dents. It was after factoring in these suggestions and comments that the Bill was finalised.

STRENGTH OF CONSULTATIONSThe strength of public consulta-tions can be gauged from the fact that the name of the development authority was proposed during the consultation process as Gurugram Metropolitan Development Author-ity (GMDA). The GMDA Aproposes to develop a vision for continued, sustained and balanced growth of the Gurugram Metropolitan Area by providing quality of life and reasonable standard of living to the residents, and through generation

of employment opportunities.The GMDA represents an endeav-

our and holistic approach to redefine urban governance and delivery structure in coordination with local authorities in the context of the emergence of Gurugram as a rapidly expanding urban agglomeration. It intends to provide for integrated and coordinated planning, infrastructure development and provision of urban amenities, mobility management, sustainable management of urban environment, and social, economic and industrial development.

Chaired by the Chief Minister, the GMDA will include ministers in charge of urban local bodies and town and country planning besides the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Gurugram constit-uency. Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) representing the constituencies falling within the jurisdiction of GMDA would be its

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ex-officio members. The mayor, senior deputy mayor

of the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram and Chairman of the Zila Parishad would be members. Six experts in different fields, including urban governance, urban forestry, infrastructure, public administration, engineering, town planning, preferably the residents of Gurugram, would also be mem-bers of the Authority.

Eight officers of the state govern-ment besides district officers such as divisional commissioner, municipal commissioner, commissioner of po-lice and deputy commissioner would also be members of the Authority. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) would be member of the GMDA and function as its secretary. The Author-ity, therefore, would have political representation, government officers, local officers and experts on its prin-cipal management body.

It is for the first time that a strong representation of local residents has been proposed through the Residents Advisory Council (RAC). The RAC would have 10-15 residents repre-senting stakeholder groups such as resident welfare associations, civil society, labour, industry, real estate developers, commerce and services.

TEN OFFICERS IN RACThe RAC would have majority representation of residents and have ten officers besides the CEO who will chair its meetings. The RAC will monitor implementation of the infrastructure development, mobility management plan and the plan for sustainable management of urban environment. Its recommen-dations would be placed before the GMDA along with an action taken report by the CEO.

The CEO of GMDA will be respon-sible for preparing the Master Plan for Gurugram. After a consultative process, the Master Plan would be submitted to the government. He will also exercise powers under the Pun-jab Scheduled Roads and Controlled Areas Restriction of Unregulated Development Act. The infrastructure development plan would be prepared after consultations.

The plan will govern annual in-frastructure development. Shortfall in achievement of the annual action plan for infrastructure development would be placed before the Vidhan Sabha to create accountability in pre-paring and implementing the plan.

Mobility management will look at all aspects i.e. pedestrians, vehicular traffic and non-motorised transport. The CEO, in consultation with police commissioner, municipal commis-sioner and deputy commissioner, will prepare the mobility plan. It will look at infrastructure solutions and enforcement mechanisms to improve mobility.

The plan will also look into aspects of road safety. The GMDA will be the second development authority in the country after the Hyderabad Metropolitan Regional Development Authority to have the mandate to work a unified plan for traffic and transportation, issues that confront a 21st century city for which lasting solutions are yet to be found. The GMDA will operate city bus transport for Gurugram and also participate in metro railway extension projects.

The GMDA also has the mandate to prepare a plan for sustainable management of urban environment.

This will include urban forestry, water conservation and solid waste management. The plan will endeav-our to achieve quality of air and water available in Gurugram. The GMDA will focus on the desire of urban living to reduce human foot-prints and adopt sustainable environ-mental practices.

The authority will promote so-cial, cultural and industrial devel-opment and attempt, through ease of doing business and promotion of new technology, areas to enhance employment opportunities. It will also attempt to promote logistics in-frastructure considering implemen-tation of the Delhi-Mumbai Freight Corridor and the Kundli-Mane-sar-Palwal Expressway.

The GMDA has been mandated to ensure transparency and make IT hallmark of its functioning. Creation of a paperless office being one of its avowed objectives, the GMDA would work in close co-ordination with the Municipal Corporation of Guru-gram, Gurugram Police, the district administration and other govern-ment agencies to recreate a new urban governance model, a model that would define rapidly urbanizing India, and could be replicated in other parts of the country.=

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HARYANA REVIEW FEBRUARY 201738 SPECIAL REPORT

HARYANA NEWS BUREAU

The 68th Republic Day was cel-ebrated throughout Haryana with great fervour and enthu-

siasm. Despite inclement weather, contingents of the police, Home Guards, NCC and others took part in the parade held at various places. School students presented colourful cultural programmes and tableaux depicting overall development of the state were taken out.

While the Governor, Prof Kaptan Singh Solanki, presided over the state-level celebrations in Kurukshet-ra, the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, unfurled the National Flag at Panchkula. Simlarly, ministers and the Speaker unfurled the Triclour in the districts.

HARYANA’S TABLEAU APPLAUDEDHaryana’s tableau depicting the theme of Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao was the centre of attraction at the 68th Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi. The President, Mr Pra-nab Mukherjee, the Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, the Chief Guest, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Mo-hammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and a large number of people present on the occasion, applauded the tableau with a huge applause.

The tableau depicted a glimpse of the rural life and folk culture, besides achievements of astro-naut Kalpana Chawla, Rio Olym-pic medalist Sakshi Malik and Paralympian Deepa Malik. The Prime Minister had launched Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao programme at Panipat on January 22, 2015 and the state strived hard to implement it in letter and spirit.

Making it an R-Day gift for the

CM makes an R-Day giftHaryana’s Beti-Bachao-Bet-Padahao tableau at R-Day parade in New Delhi applauded by the President, PM and others

Free coaching facility for wards of Defence personnel and para-military forces

The Governor, Prof Kaptan Singh Solanki, unfurling the National Flag at Republic Day celebrations at Kurukshetra


wards of Defence personnel and para-military forces to prepare for competitive exams, the Chief Minister announced free coaching facility for them. The exams include those conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) and the Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC). He made the announcement while speaking at the addressing the largely attended Republic Day cele-brations after unfurling the National Flag at Panchkula.

Paying rich tributes to the free-dom fighters and martyrs, the Chief Minister said the government had prepared a scheme with budgetary allocation of Rs 3 crore for providing free coaching facility for competitive exams of IAS, IPS, RCS, HPS, engi-neering, medical, NDA and banks to the children of serving soldiers as well as the ex-sevicemen.

Reiterating his government's com-mitment for the welfare of ex-ser-vicemen and serving soldiers, Mr Manohar Lal said brave soldiers and martyrs had laid down their lives for the unity and integrity of the coun-try. The state government has set up a separate Department of Sainik Welfare to provide various services to ex-servicemen of the state in a more efficient and effective manner.

The present state government has so far given ex gratia employ-ment to 101 dependents. Also, the

government has revised the schol-arship for the cadets studying in Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun, from Rs 35,000 to Rs 50,000 per annum.

While congratulating the people on the occasion of Republic Day, the Chief Minister said the present government would ensure all-round development of the state with the mantra of Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas. The government has introduced 170 e-services of 23 departments so that people can get various services at their door-step.

FREEDOM FIGHTER HONOUREDThe Chief Minister took the salute from the contingents of police, home guards and NCC among others who participated in the R-Day parade. He also honoured the freedom fighter, Mr Des Raj Pardesi and widows of martyrs on this occasion.

He announced Rs 5 lakh for the welfare of under training women constables who had performed PT show on the occasion. He also an-nounced five-day holiday for them during their training period. In addi-tion, the Chief Minister announced to give Rs 50,000 each for the Har-yana Orchestra and Haryana Kala Parishad and honoured all those who bagged first, second and third positions, and other participants in the cultural programme.=

R-Day honours(Padam Shri)

The Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, taking salute from march past by various contingents at Republic Day Celebrations at Panchkula

Sakshi Malik

(Wrestling)

Deepa Malik(Paraplegic

Athelete)

T K Viswanathan(Civil Services)


Different hues of Youth FestivalPhoto feature by Vinay Malik

The 21st edition of the National Youth Festival, held on the Maharishi

Dayanand University campus in Rohtak from January 12 to 16, 2017 to mark the 154th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, will be remem-bered for the colourful cultural programmes, youthful exuber-ance, and the Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, reaching out to the record 5,000 par-ticipants through televised address. We seek to capture the event in myriad colours.




Folk dancers enthrall the audience


PM making televised address to the youth

NCC Cadets take time out for a selfie

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A digital dance number


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HARYANA REVIEW FEBRUARY 201750 NEWS IN CAPSULE

60,000 youths to be make Gravit Yojana workWith a view to providing all ameni-ties in villages on a par with cities and ensure that benefits of govern-ment schemes reach every person in the villages, the Haryana Govern-ment has decided to prepare a team of about 60,000 youths under the GRAVIT Yojana to assist in achieving these targets.

This was disclosed by Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, who was speaking at ‘GRAVIT – Gramin Vikas ke liye Tarun – Shikshit se Saksham ki Ore’ programme in Rohtak. He also launched training of GRAVIT volunteers and three-month certif-icate course for representatives of Panchayati Raj Institutions, besides releasing pamphlet and curriculum of the course.

The state government has ensured election of only educated persons as representatives of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) to ensure develop-

ment and empowerment of villages. Expressing the hope that the 60,000 youths under the GRAVIT scheme, along with about 60,000 representa-

tives, would bring about revolution-ary transformation of the villages, the Chief Minister said that several persons had successfully worked

THE MONTH THAT WAS

The Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, paying homage to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, in Rohtak

The Chief Minister Mr Manohar Lal, launched the “Antyodaya Aahaar Yojana” to provide low-cost, nutritious food cooked in hygienic conditions to the needy persons at Panchkula on Republic Day. The food packet, having six chapattis, sabzi and achaar and costing Rs 10, would be sold in Panchkula at Labour chowk, Sector-16, Majri chowk, weekly sabzi mandi and industrial area between 7 p.m.

and 9 p.m. Panchkula is the first district

in the state to initiate this scheme meant for those who cannot afford to purchase food at high cost. The scheme, announced by the Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, on November 1, 2016, aims at serving those who work hard during the day, but do not have the resources, time and energy to cook food for themselves.

CM launches meal for Rs 10 only

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with the villagers throughout the country without financial or govern-ment assistance for development of the villages.

Water tariff to be hiked in urban and rural areas

The Haryana Government plans to revise water tariff in both urban and rural areas of the state after a gap of six years. The decision to propose the hike to the Cabinet was taken at a meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal.

It was also decided that in order to promote cashless transactions, a discount of five per cent of the bill amount subject to a maximum of Rs 50, whichever is less, would be given to the consumers for making pay-ments of electricity bill, water and sewerage bills through BHIM App. The discount would be admissible from April 1, 2017 for one year.

While directing the departments concerned to streamline the process of bill distribution and collection in rural and urban areas, the Chief Minister said the state government was contemplating to entrust the work of collecting water usage charges to village panchayats or zila parishads to improve the efficiency of work and also to ensure that the amount so collected by them is uti-lised for operation and maintenance of water supply schemes where tubewells have already been handed over to village panchayats.

Directive to enter revised Pension, FP in PPO

The Haryana Government has direct-ed all pension disbursing authori-ties and treasury officers to record the amount of revised pension and family pension of pensioners prior to January 1, 2006 in both halves of pen-sion payment order for intimation of pensioners or family pensioners. They will also maintain record of all such cases wherein pension or family pension has been revised.

According to Finance Department sources, all heads of department, divisional commissioners, depu-

ty commissioners, sub-divisional officers (civil) and registrar, Punjab and Haryana High Court, have been asked to direct heads of offices or drawing and disbursing officers, dealing with pension in their offices concerned to get the needful done.

The Principal Accountant General (A and E), Haryana, has requested that the revised amount of pension or family pension be recorded in both halves of the pension payment order for intimation of pensioners or family pensioners.

4,200 cases of power theft detected

Haryana power utilities, Uttar Hary-ana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) and Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN), have unearthed more than 4,200 cases of theft of electricity to the tune of about Rs 7 crore during the raids conducted recently at sever-al places across the state. FIRs have been registered in most of the cases.

The electricity theft included more than 1,700 cases in all nine circles of UHBVN, in which fines to the tune of over Rs 3.19 crore was im-posed. Similarly, in more than 2,500 cases in all nine circles of DHBVN, fines to the tune of more than Rs 3.76 crore were imposed.

IG gets President’s Medal, 12 cops get Police Medal

While an Inspector General of Police

(IGP) in Haryana has been award-ed President’s Police Medal for his distinguished service, 12 other police personnel have been awarded Police Medal for their meritorious service on the occasion of Republic Day.

Om Prakash Singh, IGP, Hisar has been awarded President’s Police Medal for distinguished service. The other 12 police personnel who have been awarded Police Medal for their meritorious service included an IGP, one Deputy Inspector General (DIG), two Superintendents of Police (SPs), a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), two Inspectors, two Sub Inspectors, two Assistant Sub Inspec-tors and a Lady Exemptee Assistant Sub Inspector.

They are Rajender Kumar, IGP, Panchkula, Sibash Kabiraj, DIG, Madhuban, Ashok Kumar, SP, Bhi-wani, Om Prakash, SP, Fatehabad, Suresh Chand, DSP, Ambala Can-tonment, Amar Singh, Inspector, Madhuban, Watan Singh, Inspector, Madhuban, Ramesh Chand, Sub Inspector, Madhuban, Satpal Singh, Sub Inspector, Panchkula, Shamsh-er Singh, Assistant Sub Inspector, Panchkula, Naresh Kumar, Assistant Sub Inspector, Panchkula and Mrs Sukhjinder Pal Kaur, Lady Exemptee Assistant Sub Inspector, Panchkula.

‘Manohar Jyoti’ will lit one lakh solar lights

A new programme ‘Manohar Jyoti’ will soon be implemented in Harya-na to set up one lakh solar lighting systems in the state. To be launched in a phased manner by the Haryana Renewable Energy Department, the Union Ministry of New and Renewa-ble Energy has sanctioned financial assistance of Rs 23.65 crore for set-ting up 21,000 solar lighting systems in its first phase.

According to sources in the de-partment, the programme would be implemented in the Swarna Jayanti Year of the state. The Union Minis-try has approved financial assistance of Rs 45.89 crore to make available 3,050 solar pumps to the farmers who would be required to pay only ten per cent amount to get the power pumps installed.=


SAURABH DUGGAL

Living up to expectations, Hary-ana girls won overall champi-onship trophy at the recently

concluded Youth National Boxing Championship held in New Delhi.

Haryana eves attained top hon-ours by clinching six golds and three

silvers, while Punjab was placed overall second with one gold, two silvers and four bronzes; and Uttar Pradesh was third with one gold and one bronze.

In the boys' section, Haryana fin-ished overall second behind Services Sports Control Board (SSCB).

SSCB topped in the men's section,

winning nine medals, including four golds and four silvers, and a bronze medal, while Haryana was placed second with two golds, one silver and two bronze; and Delhi was in the third spot with a gold, and two bronze medals.

Sakshi from Haryana defeated former World Junior Champion Man-deep Kaur to lift the gold medal in the women's feather (54-57kg) weight category.

Mandeep had to settle for a silver medal after she suffered an injury to succumb to a 1-4 loss to Sakshi.

In women's light fly (45-48kgs), Jyothi from Haryana blanked Madhya Pradesh's Anjali Sharma to clinch the title.

In women's fly (48-51kgs), Haryana boxer Ekta thrashed Assam's Joy Kumari Lama 5-0 to take the trophy.

In women's bantam (51-54 kgs),

Haryana girls lift youth national titleState boxers win six golds and three silvers; lift youth girls' overall trophy

Haryana's Jyothi (second from left) won gold medal in 48kg weight category in the youth national championship held in New Delhi

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Haryana's Parveen blasted Palian Lalnunfeli of Mizoram to bag the gold medal.

In women's light (57-60kg), Mizo-ram boxer Vanlalhriatpuii eked out a narrow 3-2 win over Haryana's Jony to claim the title.

In women's light welter (60-64kg), Lalita of Rajasthan defeated Hary-ana's Nisha in another unanimous decision, while UP's Astha Pahwa beat Himachal Pradesh's Rupa Rani in welter weight (64-69kg) to take the respective crowns.

In women's middle weight (69-75kg) , Avneet Kaur of Punjab saw off Haryana's Sapna 4-1, while in women's light heavy weight (75-81kg) Haryana boxer Anupama emerged winner after Punjab's Parveen Kaur after referee stopped the contest in the third round.

In women's heavy (81+kg), Megha M Mathew of Kerela prevailed over Neha of Haryana 4-1 in another lop-sided contest.

In men's competition, SSCB's Ba-run Singh edged out Ansul Punia of Chandigarh 2-1 to clinch the trophy in a thrilling contest in the light fly (46-49kg).

WILSON MAULS GURPREETIn fly weight (52kg), Ch Wilson Singh of SSCB mauled Gurpreet Singh of Punjab 5-0 to win the title.

In bantam weight (56kg), SSCB's Mohammad Etash Khan defeated Uttarakhand's Pawan Gurung 5-0, while Ankit of SSCB emerged as the champion after he was adjudged the winner by an unanimous decision against Punjab's Gurpinder Singh in light weight (60kg).

In light welter (64kg), Manipur's P Brighter Singh defeated SSCB's Akash in an unanimous decision.

In welter weight (69kg), Harya-na's Naveena Boora won gold after defeating SSCB's Parveen Kumar 5-0, while Haryana's Karan clinched the gold medal after notching up a domi-nating 5-0 win over SSCB's Sachin in middle (75kgs).

In light heavy (81kgs), Delhi 's Harsh Lakra defeated Haryana's Ashish 3-2 to win the gold medal, while Chandigarh's Sawan Gill won the gold after beating SSCB's Himmat Singh 5-0 in a heavy weight (91kg) final.

In Super heavy weight (91+kg), Harshpreet Saharwat from UP won the gold, defeating Rajasthan's Akhil Punia after he gave a walk-over fol-lowing a joint injury.=

Sakshi (second from left) won gold in 57kg weight category

HARYANA REVIEW FEBRUARY 201754 POTPOURRI

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer, and survive, is a victory for me.”

- Ingrid Bergman

QUOTE OF THE MONTHDO YOU

KNOW?n There are more than 100 types of

cancers; any part of the body can be affected.

n Over 20,000 people die of cancer every day.

n Trained dogs can sniff out prostate cancer with 98% accuracy.

n Over 30% of cancer could be prevented by avoiding tobacco and alcohol, having a healthy diet and physical activity.

n Worldwide, the five most common types of cancer that kill men are (in order of frequency): lung, stomach, liver, colorectal and oesophagus.

n Worldwide, the five most common types of cancer that kill women are (in the order of frequency): breast, lung, stomach, colorectal and cervical. In many developing countries, cervical cancer is most common.

n There are 28 million cancer survivors worldwide.

n A Marijuana-derived compound forces cancer cells to freeze and prevents them from spreading.

n A single cigarette contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer.

n Taller women are more likely to get cancer, according to a study.

n Red wine kills cancer cells.

Having Cancer is a bad dream! So no one would blame this women if rather than Stand

up to cancer they just wanted to Sit down to cry. Yet after the tears dried, these four smart, strong ladies showed how they not only stood up to cancer, but also started kicking butt by making big changes in the way we view health. Cancer or not, their inspirational stories can also help you—whatever your obstacles.

THE DIAGNOSISIn November 2010, Melanie was told she had chronic lymphoma. Despite having multiple tumors, at the beginning she says she didn't feel any pain, discomfort, or interfer-ence with her life. "I don't feel sick. In fact, I feel stronger and healthier than ever," she said in an interview with More magazine at the time. "So I said this is just a computer glitch and I need a reboot."

THE TURNING POINTThings got real when she started chemo. In anticipation of her hair falling out, Melanie took the oppor-tunity to chop off her long, blond waves into a funky, asymmetrical 'do. "It made me feel like a superhero

version of myself," she says on her blog. In addition to the hair, she also made it a point to wear what she likes to call "superhero cuffs," stacked bracelets to remind her what she was fighting for.

On the day of her chemo, her doorman gave her one more, telling her the bracelet was given to him in Africa to remind him to be strong. "He has had it for many years and he wanted to give it to me, to offer me strength." Looking at the bracelets she realised that even though that day she would put on a new one—a hospital ID bracelet—she would take it off afterward, and she'd remain her superhero self.

Now the former lawyer focuses her attention on her wellness and helping others, working full-time as a (wildly popular) indoor cycling instructor and trainer at SoulCycle. She was the first-ever student to become a Master Instructor.

HER ADVICE"We can’t spend our lives antici-pating, guessing, and then being attached to that imagined idea. We have one life to live. Just know how you want to be and be it. It really is that simple." =

FIGHTING CANCER

WORLD CANCER DAY falls on February 4

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