Union Minister of Road Transport and Highway Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the country's first bio-refinery plant at Rahu in Pune. This produces ethanol from the variety of biomass and it is capable of producing one million litres of ethanol per annum by processing a variety of biomass like rice and wheat straw, cotton stalk, bagasse, cane trash, corn cobs & stover with superior product yields.

The Chief Minister of Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar decided to gather a detailed data of every resident and issue a sleek identity for every house in Haryana. The main objective of this scheme is to get details of land holdings and status of facilities such as social security pension, scholarship,MGNREGA, loans and LPG connection.

The Haryana government has decided to open canteens offering meals at affordable rates. Under the "Antyodaya Anna Yojana" scheme the workers at 23 locations in the state can avail their food.

Odisha planed to introduce boat ambulance service in Koraput, Malkangiri, Kendrapara and Kalahandi where people face problems in availing 108 ambulance service due to intervening large water bodies in the form of rivers and dams. Rs 21 crores will be spent towards extending emergency ambulance services in the entire state.

Police public schools will be set up in all sub-divisions of Haryana to provide best education facilities for the children of police personnel by the end of April 2018. 1,560 houses for police personnel are being built by the Haryana Police Housing Corporation in the first phase.Construction of 1,500 more houses will be undertaken in the second phase.