CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Monday said he would make concerted efforts on a top priority basis to get the Sutlej-Yamuna Link Canal completed soonest possible.

Addressing a press conference at Sirsa, he described the SYL Canal as the lifeline of Haryana and said that the issue of State capital would be taken up after resolving the water issue.

He further said that 11,000 teachers would be recruited to fill up vacant posts. A new education policy was being formulated under which there would be a teacher for a class of 40 students. A Rajiv Gandhi Educaton City was being set up in district Sonepat on the pattern of Oxford University. The Chaudhary Devi Lal University would be turned into an Excellence Education Centre where all kind of facilities would be provided to the students. The local university college had been given the status of Government National College and affiliated to Kurukshetra University, he added. Later, he announced that a new Agriculture Marketing Policy would be announced soon to increase agricultural production and income of farmers in the State. He was inaugurating the first Agri-Business Information Centre (ABIC) of the State in Sirsa.

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