J&K: 18 years after soldiers death, Haryana panchayat to give his widow a plot

Chandigarh | Sunday | 18th February, 2018

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The Haryana Cabinet, in a meeting Saturday, approved the panchayat’s proposal. Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar Haryana CM Manohar Lal KhattarEIGHTEEN YEARS after a soldier was killed during an anti-militancy operation in Jammu & Kashmir, the panchayat of his village, Bijopur, is set to gift his widow a 200 square-yard residential plot in Faridabad. The state Cabinet in the meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar Saturday took a decision in this regard. After the cabinet meeting, Haryana Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Krishan Kumar Bedi told The Indian Express that the martyr’s wife, Mamuna, had approached the village panchayat seeking land for a house. Each food packet will cost Rs 20 of which Rs 10 would be shared by the labour department..