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July 2024

Khap panchayat bans live ins

• Khap Panchayat representatives met Haryana CM and submitted a memorandum to ban live-ins, amend law to restrict marriages in same ‘gaon (village), guvandh (neighboring village), gotra (clan)’, retaining the marriage age for girls at 18. Print

October 2024

Farmer leader gets 1170 votes

Farmer leader Gurnam Singh Chadhuni got only 1170 votes.

• The Pehowa seat from where Gurnam Singh Chadhuni contested has the highest population of farmers but he still did not win.
• Chaduni was badly defeated by BJP candidate Mandeep Chattha.
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Sub Categorisation in Scheduled Castes

• Haryana CM Nayab Saini announces that SUB CATEGORISATION in Scheduled Castes (SC) will be implemented with immediate effect..
• In short Income Based Reservation of Creamy Layer & Non Creamy Layer within SC to be implemented with immediate effect..
• Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini says,

"… In the cabinet meeting, we respected the Supreme Court's verdict related to the classification of the Schedule Caste. We have decided that we will implement what the Supreme Court said regarding the classification of the SC…"

March 2025

Green Wall initiative launched to restore Aravalli

• Haryana launched the Green Wall initiative, to restore nearly 25,000 hectares of degraded Aravalli land on World Environment Day, 2025
• By acting as a natural barrier from Thar desert, the Aravallis play a critical role in curbing desertification and maintaining regional climatic stability.
• The nation wide Green Wall push - a strategic afforestation mission designed to create a continuous green corridor from Gujarat to Delhi.
• Haryana includes 5 districts - Gurgaon, Faridabad, Nuh, Rewari, Mahendragarh. The sixth Aravalli district, Charkhi Dadri, will be excluded from the current phase due to its relatively intact forest cover. Nearly 40% of the Aravallis lie within its six districts.
• The Green Wall initiative, introduced nationally in 2023, draws inspiration from Africa’s Great Green Wall programme. In the Indian context, it aims to revive 1.1 million hectares of the Aravallis. [Urban acres](Aravali Green Project Begins in Haryana)

November 2025

Regulated Mining allowed in Aravallis - SC

• The Supreme Court has ruled against a complete prohibition on mining in the Aravallis for now, making it clear that imposition of a full ban in the area could lead to illegal mining, creation of land mining mafia and criminalisation.
• barred grant of new mining leases, until a Management Plan for Sustainable Mining (MPSM) is carried out.
• mining activities would still be prohibited in protected areas, including wildlife sanctuaries, tiger corridors, and economically sensitive zones.

Exception

• The lone exception would be made in cases of critical, strategic and atomic minerals.
• SC clubbed two similar matters—MC Mehta vs Union of India and T.N. Godavarman Thirumalpad vs Union of India — before it which related to the Aravallis.

Lack of uniform definition of Aravallis among states

• the court noted the lack of a commonly-agreed definition of the Aravallis, since different states had distinct definitions. It then directed constituting a committee for providing a uniform definition of the hills and ranges.
• On 3 October, this court-appointed committee suggested a very broad definition of the Aravallis, at odds with the one given by the FSI and the amicus in this case, which included all the hills below the height of 100 metres and in turn would lead to mining in more areas in the Aravalli Hills and Ranges.

Saranda forest to be declared as a wildlife sanctuary

• On 13 November, the Supreme Court had ruled that the Saranda forest should be declared a wildlife sanctuary in light of overarching concerns about illegal mining and ecological conservation. Print