IEP Chandigarh, December 14, 2022
Haryana Cabinet which met under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal here today accorded approval to the draft of the Haryana Rural Development (Amendment) Bill, 2022 to further to amend the Haryana Rural Development Act, 1986.
This Act may be called the Haryana Rural Development (Amendment) Act, 2022 and shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from October 1, 2022. As per the amendment, now State Government can levy the Haryana Rural Development fee at a rate to be fixed on all agricultural produce including paddy of all varieties, w.e.f October 1, 2022.
In the said Act, for sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Haryana Rural Development Act, 1986 has been substituted, meaning that a fee shall be notified at a rate, as may be fixed by the State Government from time to time, on the sale proceeds of agricultural produce bought or sold or brought for processing in the notified market area levied on the dealer for the purposes of the Act, provided that except in case of agricultural produce brought for processing no fee shall be leviable in respect of any transaction in which delivery of the agricultural produce bought or sold is not actually made and the fee shall be leviable on the dealer only in respect of a transaction in which delivery is actually made.
Now the State Government has also decided to fix the Haryana Rural Development fee on paddy of all varieties, at the rate of Rs. 50 per quintal if sold at a price of over Rs.2500 per quintal on a lump-sum basis and at the rate of 2 percent of the sale proceeds if the paddy is sold at a price up to Rs.2500 per quintal. It has been further directed that this decision of the State Government would be implemented with effect from October 1, 2022 after the amendment in the HRD Act is passed by the Legislative Assembly.
Haryana Cabinet which met under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal here today accorded approval to the draft of The Haryana Municipal (Second Amendment) Bill, 2022 further to amend the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973 and The Haryana Municipal Corporation (Second Amendment) Bill, 2022 to further to amend the Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994 by inserting definition of ‘Core Area’.
The Bill defines ‘Core area’ as built-up area within the municipal limit planned or developed fifty years before the coming into force of this Amendment Act and which due to urbanization and efflux of time require replanning of land use and also includes built-up area of village abadi, which has subsequently been included in municipal limit.
It is further proposed that the mixed land use shall be permitted in the core area subject to the planning parameters and recovery of such charges as may be notified by the State Government.
To indicate land uses and to avoid any complication in future, it is necessary to define the core area in the Act. Since, these core areas are situated within the municipal limits, therefore, necessary amendments in Haryana Municipal Act, 1973 and the Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994 needed to be made by inserting the definition of core area.
