Haryana Chief Minister, Sh. Nayab Singh Saini, while giving relief to the farmers for bearing expenses for arranging additional resources for kharif crop, announced that the government will release an amount of Rs. 300 crore as bonus to the farmers through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) today, on November 15, 2024. Besides this, a sum of Rs. 550 crore will be released soon.

He informed the House that earlier, on August 16, 2024, the government had already released Rs. 496.89 crore. Notably, the government had already announced to provide a bonus of Rs. 2000 per acre to help farmers alleviate the financial burden on farmers due to less rainfall .

The Chief Minister was giving his reply after the discussion on the Governor's address during the Haryana Assembly session here today.

The Chief Minister said a developed Haryana will be built on the foundation that we have prepared in the last 10 years. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi, our double engine government is ready to move forward at three times the speed. Haryana will definitely have a big contribution and identity in a developed India.

He said our victory in the Assembly elections is the victory of farmers, wrestlers, poor, deprived, elderly and youth. Targeting the Opposition, he said some people had formed the government even before the decision of the people. Ministries had also been allocated, but they were in an illusion. However, the public gave them the answer. He said we will fulfil the promise made by our government to give 2 lakh jobs to youths.

Responding to a question raised in the House regarding Haryana Public Service Commission, the Chief Minister said only 3593 youth were given jobs through Haryana Public Service Commission during the tenure of the Congress government from 2005 to 2014, whereas during the tenure of the current state government from 2014 to 2024, 7676 youth have got jobs. In our government, jobs are being given on the basis of merit in a transparent manner. Today, the son of a poor man is becoming an HCS officer, the Chief Minister added.

He said since the formation of Haryana in the year 1966, for the first time an example was set that when an HCS officer was found guilty, he was dismissed from the job within a month. Many governments came before us. If anyone has dismissed even a single officer after conducting investigations for years, please tell us. We dismissed that officer immediately after the incident under Article 311 without any investigation.

The Chief Minister, while targeting the Opposition, said that the Congress did not open a single Mahila Thana during its tenure, while we built 31 Mahila Thanas. Also, 19 new government women colleges were built during the Congress rule, while the present government opened 32 women colleges. He said his government built 1719 km long national highways by spending Rs 1713 crore. He said that an amount of Rs 28,582 crore has been spent on road projects.

The Chief Minister said that the DA of employees increases every July and December according to the increase in inflation. He said the wholesale price index was 67.1 in 2006 and increased to 114.7 in 2014, i.e. an increase of 70.9 percent. In the year 2024, it will be 151.2, i.e. an increase of only 34.5 percent.