No lockdown in Haryana: Khattar

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 20

Putting an end to the ongoing lockdown rumours, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today said that no lockdown would be imposed in the state.

The Chief Minister urged the labourers and workers to remain relaxed and keep doing their work. There is no need to panic, he said.

Khattar was interacting with people of the state today during the “Haryana ki Baat” programme held through live telecast.

“To ensure adequate medical arrangement for the Covid-19 patients, the state government has recently held discussion with the DRDO officials for setting up a 500-1000 bedded dedicated COVID hospital in Panipat,” informed the Chief Minister.

He said now testing in the state had been increased.

He said from April 20, 2021, till next five days, a mega vaccination drive would be run across the state.

This time, the state government had decided to directly transfer the procurement money in the verified accounts of the farmers within 72 hours. So far, about Rs 2,785 crore had been paid to the farmers.

He said till now, the payment of only one farmer had been delayed by one day, while the payment of three farmers had been delayed by nine days. Similarly, there are large numbers of farmers whose payments had been delayed by one day. Therefore, the state government had given an amount of Rs 7,80,000 as interest to 10,769 farmers for the delayed payments.