Bhagavad Gita lessons to be introduced in Haryana schools: Khattar
The CM also said the government would introduce a bill with 'stringent punishment for cow slaughtering'
Chandigarh: Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday said the government will introduce Bhagavad Gita lessons in schools across the state from the coming academic session.
“Students in schools will be taught shlokas of Bhagavad Gita from the new academic session," he said.
Khattar said the government would also introduce a bill with “stringent punishment for cow slaughtering in the on-going budget session of the assembly". In the proposed Govansh Sanrakashan and Gau Samvardhan (cow protection and cow conservation and development) bill, provisions for tough penalties for cow slaughter and better conservation and care of indigenous cattle would be made, he said.
The Haryana government, on Saturday, imposed a complete ban on the sale of beef in any form and proposed 10 years rigorous imprisonment as punsihment for cow slaughter.
Khattar, a first time MLA and the chief minister of Haryana’s first BJP government, said the priority of his government was to end corruption in the system. Noting that corruption is a “main problem" in the state, Khattar said the government would take several steps, including introduction of information technology-based solutions, to eradicate the menace from the state. “To end corruption, one of the major things is to culminate discretionary powers," he said.
The CM said that since the formation of BJP government in the state the vigilance bureau had caught more government officials for corruption than the total cases in the past ten years. “Whosoever is found involved in corruption at any level will not be spared," he said.
In reply to a query on the controversy surrounding Robert Vadra’s land deals, Khattar said that “our target is not to move ahead by keeping one person in mind. We have got a positive mandate to eradicate corruption".
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