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Chandigarh, Punjab

FINANCE MINISTER CHEEMA HANDS OVER APPOINTMENT LETTERS TO 28 SECTION OFFICERS

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IEP Chandigarh, December 14

Punjab Finance, Planning, Excise and Taxation Minister Advocate Harpal Singh Cheema on Wednesday handed over appointment letters to 28 Section Officers in the Finance Department during a brief but impressive function held here at Vit Te Yojna Bhawan.

On this occasion, Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann led Punjab government has been taking sound financial management and employee-friendly welfare initiatives to bring transparency and efficiency in the system. He said that newly appointed Section Officers would be deployed in various departments for effective financial management and proper monitoring of expenditure being incurred on various schemes.

Finance Minister further added that recruitment for other vacant posts of Section Officers has been under process. He said that notification of S.A.S examination and advertisement regarding direct recruitment has been issued and other vacant posts of Section Officers would also be filled as soon as possible through the transparent selection process.

Stressing on the Punjab Government’s mission of providing maximum employment opportunities to the youth of the state, Finance Minister said that the vacant posts which are directly related to the services being delivered to the common people and bringing transparency in the work were being filled on priority. On this occasion, the finance minister also instructed all the newly appointed section officers to perform their services with honesty and dedication while putting in their every effort for the welfare of the people and the development of the state.

Special Secretary (Expenditure) Mohammad Tayab and Additional Director (Treasury and Accounts) Simarjit Kaur were also present on this occasion.

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CHEEMA INAUGURATES AUDIT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PENSION MANAGEMENT MODULE & E-VOUCHER SYSTEM TO STRENGTHEN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

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IEP Chandigarh, December 14     

     In order to strengthen the financial management of the state, Punjab Finance, Planning, Excise and Taxation Minister Advocate Harpal Singh Cheema on Wednesday inaugurated the IT modules ‘Audit Management System (AMS), Pension Management Module, and e-Voucher System prepared by the Finance Department with the help of the National Informatics Center (NIC).          On this occasion, Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said that these IT modules would help in streamlining financial monitoring to ensure proper utilization of the budget while monitoring receipts and expenditures of the Punjab government. He said that A.M.S. would bring transparency, accuracy, and speed in the work of audits besides fixing responsibility and accountability for settling financial matters according to rules due to regular monitoring of audits.          Giving information regarding the Pension Management Module, the Finance Minister said that the module would prove to be beneficial for the pensioners as its implementation would bring simplicity to the process besides increasing the speed in the disposal of pension cases. He said that this module would be implemented in a phased manner throughout the state.          Cheema further added that the e-Voucher system would prove to be another milestone toward adopting the paperless mode of functioning in government work. He said that this eco-friendly decision would reduce expenditure and ease the work of record maintenance. He said that this module would also be implemented in a phased manner throughout the state.          Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said that all these IT modules have been implemented only after thorough testing. Appreciating the officials of the Finance Department and NIC who played an important role in developing these IT modules, Cheema urged them to bring more initiatives in this direction. He said that the Punjab government under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is committed to bringing transparency and speed in government work to ensure the welfare of the people of the state.          Special Secretary (Expenditure) Mohammad Tayab and Additional Director (Treasury and Accounts) Simarjit Kaur were also present on this occasion. 

Chandigarh, Punjab

Police nabbed both accused within 12 hours: SSP, Sandeep Garg

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IEP SAS Nagar December 14, 2022

Acting swiftly the SAS Nagar Police nabbed both the accused involved in attempt to rape case, the crime which was attempted on intervening night of 13,14-12-2022.

 Disclosing this Mr. Sandeep Garg, SSP SAS Nagar said that an incident was reported regarding attempt to rape by a victim while traveling in auto that she boarded from phase-6 traffic lights on intervening night of 13,14-12-2022. In auto, apart from driver, another man was sitting on rear seat who started molesting, assaulting her and also attempted to rape her. She struggled back and jumped from auto near Rayat Bahara Hospital on kharar-kurali road. After receipt of information regarding this incident, case FIR no. 251 dated 14.12.2022 U/s 376,354A,3548,342,324,323,511,506,34 IPC was registered at PS Sadar Kharar, S.A.S Nagar. Under the Supervision of Sh. Sandeep Garg, IPS, SSP SAS nagar, Sh. Amandeep Singh Brar, SP (D), S. Navreet Singh Virk SP (R), Rupinderdeep kaur sohi DSP Kharar-1, Gursher Singh DSP(D), insp Shiv kumar incharge CIA and S.I Bhagatveer Singh SHO Sadar kharar, separate teams were constituted to nab the accused at the earliest. In a significant breakthrough, with in a span of 12 hours, the crime was traced and both the accused persons were arrested and the vehicle (Auto) used for crime has also been recovered. Details of accused persons are as follows:-

1) Malkeet singh @ Bunty S/o Seva Singh R/o village radiala now at near stadium kurali age-24 years

2) Manmohan Singh @ mani s/o Baljit Singh r/o village singhpura near nanaksar gurudwara kurali age-29 years

Further investigation is being carried out to reveal more details.

Chandigarh, Haryana

Haryana Cabinet accords approval to the draft of the Haryana Rural Development (Amendment) Bill, 2022

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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.

Chandigarh, Haryana

Haryana Cabinet accords approval to the draft of The Haryana Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Bill, 2022

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IEP Chandigarh, December 14

Haryana Cabinet which met under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal here today accorded approval to the draft of The Haryana Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Bill, 2022, further to amend the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994.

After sub-section (3) of section 51 of the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act,1994 (hereinafter called the principal Act), sub-section namely “(3A) The Director or the Deputy Commissioner, as the case may be, shall assess the amount due, if any, from the person removed under sub-section (3) on account of any loss, waste or mis-application of Gram Fund or property as consequence of his negligence or misconduct and the Deputy Commissioner shall recover the amount of loss within a period of three months from the date of order and if the amount is not recovered within the said period, the same shall be recovered as arrears of land revenue, shall be inserted.

Appeal against any orders passed under section 51 of the Act, would now lie with the Divisional Commissioner instead of State Government.

Further, in section 53 of the principal Act, In sub-section (2), for the words, “Block Development and Panchayat Officer”, the words, “SDO (C)” shall be substituted, the words “and take necessary steps for its recovery” occurring at the end shall be omitted and after sub-section (4), the sub-section namely, (4A) The Deputy Commissioner shall recover the amount of loss assessed by the District Development and Panchayat Officer within a period of three months from the date of order and if the amount is not recovered within the said period, the same shall be recovered as arrears of land revenue, shall be inserted.

State Cabinet approves draft of Haryana Rural Development (Amendment) Act, 2022

Now, State Government can levy Haryana Rural Development Fee on all agricultural produce w.e.f October 1, 2022

Chandigarh, Haryana

Haryana amends Haryana Chowkidara (Watchman) Rules, 2013

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IEP Chandigarh, December 14

Haryana Cabinet which met under the Chairmanship of Chief minister, Sh. Manohar Lal held here today accorded approval to a proposal regarding an Amendment in Haryana Chowkidara (Watchman) Rules, 2013 to provide for an Appellate Authority against the orders passed by the Deputy Commissioner and to grant benefit of Employee Provident Fund (EPF) for Gramin Chowkidars.

These rules may be called the Haryana Chowkidara (Watchman) Amendment Rules, 2022.

In the Haryana Chowkidara (Watchman) Rules, 2013 (hereinafter called the said rules), after rule 7, the rule namely, “7(A) Appeal against order of Deputy Commissioner- A person aggrieved by an order passed by the Deputy Commissioner under rule 7 may within a period of Thirty days from the date of such order, prefer an appeal to the Commissioner.  The Commissioner may after hearing the appeal, confirm, vary or reverse the order. The decision of the Commissioner shall be final”, has been inserted. 

Furthermore, in the said rules, in rule 12, for sub-rule (1), sub-rule namely, “Every Village Watchman shall receive per month an honorarium as fixed and notified by the Government from time to time alongwith Employee Provident Funds benefits which shall be governed by provisions of the Employee Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (Central Act 19 of 1952)”, has been substituted.

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State Cabinet approves draft of Haryana Enterprises Promotion (Amendment) Bill, 2022

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IEP Chandigarh

Haryana Cabinet which met under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal here today approved the draft of The Haryana Enterprises Promotion (Amendment) Bill, 2022, further to amend the Haryana Enterprises Promotion Act, 2016.

The proposed amendment of section 3 (3) (iv) of Haryana Enterprises Promotion Act, 2016, has been done to approve any incentives, relaxations, exemptions or grant clearances on the recommendations of the Empowered Executive Committee in Mega Projects and Ultra Mega Projects beyond the package of fiscal incentives under any policy for industrial development  of any sector in force as notified by Government from time to time.

Chandigarh, Haryana

Haryana Cabinet approves amendment in HCS (Leave) Rules, 2016

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IEP Chandigarh, December 14

Haryana Cabinet which met under the Chairmanship of Chief minister, Sh. Manohar Lal held here today accorded approval to a proposal regarding Amendments in Haryana Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 2016 under which Child Care Leave of two years will be permissible to single male government employee as well.  

These Rules may be called the Haryana Civil Services (Leave) Amendment Rules, 2022. They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

Now, a single male government employee meaning thereby – an unmarried, widower or legally divorcee government employee and a female government employee can avail Child Care Leave for a maximum period of two years (i.e. 730 days) during the entire service for taking care of her/his two eldest surviving children upto the age of 18 years under the Haryana Civil Services (leave) Amendment Rules, 2022.

Furthermore, as per the amendment, Child Care Leave has been granted to single male government employee apart from female government employees on the pattern of Government of India by amending the Rule 46 of HCS (Leave) Rules, 2016. In the said rules, in rule 46, for sub-rule (1), the following sub-rule shall be substituted, namely, Child care leave shall be admissible for a maximum period of 730 days during the entire service for taking care of two eldest surviving children upto the age of eighteen years only provided that the period of 730 days includes the child care leave availed, if any, by the mother, as a female Government employee, while working under any State government or the Government of India prior to the submission of application by a single male Government employee of the same two eldest children.

Besides this, the condition of Child Care Leave for children less than 18 years shall not be applicable to Divyang Children, if impairment is more than 60 per cent as per the impairment certificate issued by the competent authority and if Divyang Child is completely dependent on the female Government employee or single male Government employee as the case maybe.

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PGI’s Research wins First Prize at International HTA Conference in Thailand

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IEP Chandigarh

Dr. Gaurav Jyani, research scholar at PGI has been awarded the first prize at 10th HTAsiaLink Conference held in Thailand, for presenting the research work on health-related quality of life among the Indian population. This research was also awarded the first prize at the recently held National Conference of Epidemiology Foundation of India held at AIIMS Patna. This nationwide study has been led by Dr. Shankar Prinja, who is professor of health economics at the PGI Chandigarh. The study has been conducted across the states of Haryana, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, and Tamil Nadu, for which collaboration was made with prominent institutes of the respective states. While similar studies have been conducted in other countries on smaller number of respondent interviews, this study from PGI is the world’s largest study of its kind.

Talking about policy implications of this research, Professor Prinja told that the findings are of significant use in design of health programs and provision of healthcare in the hospitals. The findings of this study are also being used in Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) to measure the outcomes of patients’ treatments. This information is very useful in assessing the quality of healthcare services provided by the hospitals to the beneficiaries of the Ayushman Bharat scheme, he added. The Government of India’s recently released policy on Value-Based Care has endorsed the use of the findings of this study, which will be applied in a pilot to be done in hospitals across 5 states, where the incentive payment to hospitals will be linked with the outcomes of patient treatment.

The research has led to development of a value-set (a database) for the India, which contains information about the quality of life of the Indian population regarding health conditions of different severity. The value set has also been adopted by India’s Department of Health Research for use in its Health Technology Assessment program and is currently being used by different researchers across India.

The HTAsiaLink conference is a prestigious event among healthcare professionals working in the field of public health. Eminent health economists, scientists and policy makers from more than 35 countries have attended this year’s event, which was organized under the theme of ‘Driving the post-COVID health system through evidence-informed decisions.’ The delegation from PGI headed by Professor Prinja has also organised a teaching session at the conference for the establishment of efficient health technology assessment systems in the countries. This session was organised in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), Geneva.

Chandigarh, Haryana

Haryana CM to announce 11-member committee for management of gurdwaras till elections to Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee

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IEP Chandigarh, December 13

The members of the 41-member Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Ad-hoc Committee met Chief Minister Sh Manohar Lal today at the Sant Kabir Kutir (Chief Minister Residence) for setting up a separate Haryana Sikh gurdwara Management Committee for Haryana.In his address, the Chief Minister said that the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Act was enacted in  2013, which was later challenged in the court . The people of the Sikh community of Haryana desired that the funds of the Gurudwaras of Haryana should be spent in Haryana only and should not be under the control of the Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, so  Haryana’s separate Haryana Sikh gurdwara Management Committee should be formed and later the Haryana Home Department issued a notification for the formation of a 41-member ad hoc committee.The Chief Minister announced now an 11-member executive committee will be constituted for the Haryana Gurdwara Management Committee, which will have 5 office bearers and 6 members. He said that this committee will look after the work of administrative management of all the 52 historical Gurdwara Sahib Gurdwaras in Haryana.He further stated that the 41-member committee is temporary till the further elections are conducted. The responsibility of the election has been given to the Deputy Commissioner, Kurukshetra. Firstly, the voter list of Sikhs of Haryana will be prepared. This process is expected to take 6 months. The headquarters of Haryana Gurdwara Management Committee will be in Kurukshetra only. The Chief Minister said that when the elections are held after the voters’ list is prepared, the Haryana Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee will also honour the unanimously elected members on behalf of the government.He said that the Haryana government has always given respect to Sikh gurus. The 550th anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji, 450th anniversary of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji and 400th anniversary of Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji have been celebrated; besides, a museum and memorial are being built in Lohgarh, Yamunanagar in memory of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Ji.The Chief Minister also appealed to the Sikh community of Haryana to collectively contribute for the social cause. It is worth mentioning here that when the Supreme Court on September 22 decided to justify the formation of a separate Haryana Sikh gurdwara Management Committee.