Overview

• Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini made the pledge in the Haryana Assembly on August 25 after a unanimous resolution marking the 350th year of Guru Tegh Bahadur’s martyrdom.
• The government said jobs will be offered on a priority basis and that detailed implementation instructions will be issued soon.
• Official figures cited 121 deaths and 58 injuries in Haryana during the 1984 violence, with about 20 gurdwaras, 221 houses and 154 shops among properties burned.
• Saini urged victim families to submit a single nominee by mutual consent via their district administration to facilitate processing.
• Separately, he ordered the shifting of a Sirsa SHO and a reassessment of 173 ‘drug-free’ villages, highlighting an existing Special Task Force, anti-narcotics cells and de-addiction centres.