Haryana Current Affairs - Feb' 2021 Set 1

Q.) Royal Enfield will set up a State-of-the-Art ‘Royal Enfield Service Training Cell’ (Centre of Excellence) at which of the following districts?

(a) Gurugram
(b) Sirsa
(c) Faridabad
(d) Sonpat

Purpose: to provide training in various categories of two-wheeler maintenance and services.
This Training Centre is for skill development in the areas of Mechanical and Automobile branch of Engineering.

This Training Cell will be the first of its kind in Haryana and expert trainers of Royal Enfield will be available at the centre to impart training to the students.
Royal Enfield is an Indian company.

Q.) Who is the chairman of Shivalik Development Board (SDB)

(a) Chief Minister
(b) Minister of tourism
(c) Home Minister
(d) Secretary, Archaeological Survey of India

Shiwalik Development Board

In the prosperous state of Haryana, Shivalik region still lacks in basic infrastructure, facilities and employments opportunities.
Government of Haryana in March 1993 formed an independent board namely Shivalik Development Board (SDB) with Shivalik Development Agency (SDA) as an implementation wing to facilitate focused development of the region.
The area covered under SDB is entire Panchkula, Ambala & Yamuna Nagar District.

Q.) “HarSamay Portal” is related to which of the following?

(a) Haryana Police
(b) CMO Office
(c) Agriculture Department
(d) None of the above

Q.) Haryana Higher Education Department is organizing an online orientation session under the project ‘Samarth’ in all the government colleges in the state for which of the following sections?

(a) Teaching Staff
(b) Training and Placement Officers
(c) District Education Officers
(d) Students

Q.) Where is the headquarters of Nestle India located?

(a) Panipat
(b) Gurugram
(c) Hisar
(d) Bhiwani

Nestlé India Limited is the Indian subsidiary of Nestlé which is a Swiss multinational company.
The company is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana.
The company’s products include food, beverages, chocolate, and confectioneries.

Haryana and Switzerland have agreed to share their expertise in the fields of skill training, tourism, dairying.
Both sides have explored the possibilities of signing MoUs for the teacher-student and cultural exchange programmes so as to further strengthen the bilateral ties between Switzerland and India particularly with Haryana.

Q.) The State Government will promote the products of Haryana Khadi and Village Industries Board under the brand name___?

(a) HarKhadi
(b) Haryana Khadi
(c) GramKhadi
(d) Khadi gram

The State Government will promote the products of Haryana Khadi and Village Industries Board under the brand name ‘Harkhadi’ so that quality products of this board can be marketed in the country and abroad, giving the youth of rural areas opportunity to become self-reliant.
He said that the State Government plans to open shops in big cities of products manufactured by Haryana Khadi and Village Industries Board.

Q.) Under Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana, district-level training centre will be setup for imparting training to these women at which of the following locations?

(a) Karnal
(b) Ambala
(c) Sonipat
(d) Hisar

Haryana Chief Minister, Mr. Manohar Lal said that under Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana and Haryana State Rural Livelihoods Mission, poor and needy women will be made self-reliant and a district-level training centre will be setup in Gharaunda, Karnal for imparting training to these women.