ibune News Service

Chandigarh November 29

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said though there has been a sizeable intake of officers into the armed forces from Haryana, efforts are being made to increase it beyond the 10 per cent mark.

Khattar was addressing the Civil Military Liaison Conference here today. General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command, Lt General Surinder Singh, other senior government officials and Army officers also attended the conference.

While describing Haryana as the state of ‘jawan and kisan’, the CM said at present, the intake of officers into the armed forces from the state is over nine per cent, but we want to take it to over 10 per cent. Recently, the Khanda village panchayat in Sonepat district has given 50 acres for the setting up of an armed forces preparatory institute, he said.

Khattar said the state government has so far provided jobs to 252 dependents of the martyrs. It is the first time that dependents of martyrs of the 1962 and 1971 wars are also being provided government jobs.

It was informed that a General Degree College of Army would come up at village Bataur village, Barwala, Panchkula, for which the government had allotted 10 acres to the Western Command headquarters