Karnal, July 26 -- Union power minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday told the officers that their aim should be to make every scheme successful and ensure that they write to close the scheme in which there is no work.

Moreover, Khattar said that the eligible people should get the full benefit of the public welfare schemes of the government and the objective of the welfare state is also to provide the benefits of schemes to the poor and the needy.

Khattar was in Panipat to chair a meeting of the district development coordination and monitoring committee (Disha) at the district secretariat.

Khattar said that the state government has made a provision of giving Rs.4,500 per acre for direct sowing of paddy so that the farmers do not suffer...