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interacting with media persons, the Chief Minister said that the problem of water logging is commonly seen in 10 districts namely Rohtak, Jhajjar, Bhiwani, Hisar, Jind, Fatehabad, Sonipat, Kaithal, Palwal and Sirsa. Therefore, giving special focus to these 10 districts, most of the schemes approved in today’s meeting are for these districts only.

He said that it has been decided to hold a meeting of the Haryana State Drought Relief and Flood Control Board twice a year in the months of January and May. The short-term projects and long-term projects decided in the January meeting will be reviewed in the month of May. For water conservation and water reuse, the budget has been increased from Rs 35 crore, allocated previously to Rs 167 crore, shared Sh. Manohar Lal.

He said that instead of draining out the water from the population and agricultural sector, emphasis is being laid on recharging of this water. More than 50 acres of the area have a waterlogging problem, the government is ready to take this area and work will be done to construct a pond or recharge well on this land.

Chief Secretary, Sh. Sanjeev Kaushal, Chief Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Sh. D S Dhesi, Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Dr. Amit Agrawal and various Administrative Secretaries also remained present in the meeting. The Deputy Commissioners of all the districts also joined the meeting virtually.

IEP Chandigarh, January 19

Haryana Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal said that the disposal of complaints received on the CM window should be completed in a time-bound manner for quick redressal to the people. Besides, the Chief Minister will preside over the review meeting of CM Window every three months.

While presiding over the CM Window meeting here today, the Chief Minister said that a mobile app will be created for the departmental officers for complete information about the grievances of CM Window. He said that the details of the complaints regarding the police department should be kept separate and it should be disposed of within the time limit.

The Chief Minister said that to redress the grievances of the people, various departments should develop a separate system at their level. Along with this, information about redressal of complaints received during the last three months should also be made available to them on a regular basis. He said that in cases of corruption, the complaints should be disposed of by the concerned senior officers on priority basis and in case of complaint against any officer; only the senior officer should investigate the matter.

Sh. Manohar Lal said that the Chief Secretary can directly send the complaints of corruption to the Vigilance Bureau for investigation as per the requirement. Along with this, he should also regularly review the complaints related to various departments. He said that unless there is a clear order of the court in any case, the department should settle them within the time limit at its own level to provide relief to the complainant. Also, the reference of the complaint given to the department should also be registered in the complaints received in the CM window, he added.

The Chief Minister said that an Additional Director or Class-A officer should be made the nodal officer at the department level to resolve the complaints of CM Window. In this regard, the department heads will review redressal of complaints in 15 days, administrative secretary in one-month, Chief Secretary in two months and the Chief Minister in three months. Along with this, the complaints of the Panchayat Department at the district level should be redressed by the CEO and the complaints of the Urban Local Bodies Department by the DMC. The officers doing excellent work in redressing the complaints of CM Window will be appreciated.

The Chief Minister was apprised in the meeting that 10,58,888 complaints have been received on the CM Window, out of which 9,23,880 complaints have been resolved. Out of these, 54,262 complaints have been found inconsistent and action taken report has been received on 23,011 complaints. Along with this action has been taken on 10,057 complaints and 29,072 complaints are overdue and clarification has been sought on 17,614 complaints.

On the occasion, Chief Secretary, Sh. Sanjeev Kaushal, Chief Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Sh. DS Dhesi, Additional Chief Secretary, Home Department, Sh. TVSN Prasad, Additional Chief Secretary, Finance Department, Sh. Anurag Rastogi, Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Dr. Amit Agrawal, Director General of Police, Sh. PK Aggarwal, Advisor (Irrigation) to Chief Minister, Sh. Devender Singh, OSD to Chief Minister, Sh. Bhupeshwar Dayal, along with additional chief secretaries, principal secretaries and nodal officers of various departments were present.

IEP Chandigarh January 19

The Haryana Government has decided that in future, case of re-employment of a government employee in service beyond two years will not be considered states a circular issued by the Chief Secretary, Mr Sanjeev Kaushal.

According to Rule-143 of Haryana Civil Services (General) Rules, 2016 and State Government Instructions, the re-employment can only be given in exceptional circumstances after 58 years for a period of maximum two years to a government employee beyond the age of superannuation. However, many departments are sending the proposals of re-employment beyond 2 years to Human Resources Department. The State Government has taken a serious view in this regard and decided that in future no case of re-employment in service beyond two years be considered. If there is requirement of service of any retired employee beyond two years, only contractual engagement may be considered as per policy/guidelines, with the prior approval of Human Resources Department (in Human Resources-III Branch added, Mr Kaushal.

IEP Chandigarh, January 19

Haryana Higher Education Minister, Sh. Mool Chand Sharma said that with a view to increase the placement of students studying in universities and colleges of the state, the heads of higher education institutions should sign Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with more and more industries.

Sh. Mool Chand Sharma said this while presiding over the review meeting with the officers of Higher Education Department here today. He said that colleges should be opened in densely populated areas according to the number of students. The government’s scheme of college within the radius of 20 kilometres should not be applicable in such areas.

The Higher Education Minister said that there would be no laxity in the matter of promotion of teachers. “The recruitment process will be expedited and the shortage of teachers will be met. Along with this, the construction work of higher education institutions will also be expedited,” he asserted.

It was apprised in the meeting that a placement cell has been set up in every college in which the students are being told about career opportunities through extension lecturers. Job fairs were also organized in government colleges of Panchkula, Hisar, Rohtak and Gurugram in which students from across the state participated.

Apart from this, training programmes are also being organized by the industries and students are being offered employment after training. Principal Secretary, Higher Education Department, Sh. Vijayendra Kumar, Director, Sh. Rajeev Rattan, Joint Director (Administration) Sh. Deepak Kumar and other officers of the department were present in the meeting.

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Haryana Right to Service Commission slaps a fine of Rs. 25,000/- to the Estate Manager, Housing Board, Rewari for rejecting an application of transfer of property in the names of applicant Sh. Sanjay Dargan and his elder sister, Ms. Kamlesh Gomber despite having last and final registered will of his father, in their names.
The complainant alleged that the respondent’s office purposefully denied his application on the basis of spurious grounds and that the respondent engaged in substantial misconduct, collusion, and abuse of authority in order to justify the complainant’s actions.
Giving more information in this regard, RTS Secretary said that as soon as the matter was flagged to the commission, the Commission took immediate cognizance of the issue and called for a detailed inquiry.
During the investigation, it was found that the father of the complainant amended his Will three times due to the death of their one family member. The last Will was made on August 14, 2019 where he consciously excluded the family of his deceased relative.
He further informed that the applicant applied for transfer of property in case of death (uncontested) vide SARAL ID TPCD/2022/00294. Following this, a public notice was published on June 8, 2022 in the newspaper, as per procedure to invite objections within 30 days.
In response to the notice, an objection was received on June 13, 2022 enclosing a registered Will dated August 8, 2014. Subsequently, the Board issued a letter dated June 21, 2022 to the complainant to provide the succession certificate in his favour. However, since the complainant could not submit the succession certificate on July 11, 2022, the Board rejected the application with comments ‘Allotte Sh. Har Bhagwan (Father) has made 3 registered Will and always made different nominees. Please give one registered will onto the office which is legal’.
The Commission after detailed inquiry concluded that it is a fact that the allottee, Shri Har Bhagwan (Father) had executed three registered Wills and in the last Will, he had mentioned the factum of execution of earlier two registered Wills which he revoked in his last Will. Therefore, the last registered Will had force of law, legally valid and should have been acted upon by the respondent. The commission found that the objection raised has no legal sanctity because previously registered Will has been specifically revoked.
The commission further found that rejection of the last Will and asking the complainant to obtain a succession certificate is nothing but harassment and abuse of power and dereliction of duty. The commission stated it was a clear case but was stretched for no reason. While taking stringent action, the Commission imposed a penalty of Rs. 20,000/- on the Estate Manager, Housing Board Rewari  and a compensation of Rs 5,000 to be given to the complainant for harrasment caused to him.

IEP Chandigarh, January 18

Haryana Government has designated various officers as Link Officers in order to ensure smooth functioning of the Departments, Boards, Corporations in the absence of the IAS and HCS officers. The link officers will perform duties during the leave, training, tour, election duty period of the designated officers. A letter has been issued in this regard by Chief Secretary, Sh. Sanjeev Kaushal.

Among these link officers, the first link officer of the Member Secretary, Haryana State Pollution Control Board will be the Managing Director, Haryana Land Reclamation and Development Corporation Ltd. and the second link officer will be the Managing Director, Haryana Seed Development Corporation.

Similarly, the first link officer to the Mission Director, Haryana Skill Development Mission will be the Director of Skill Development and Industrial Training Department. The first link officer to the Chief Executive Officer, Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam Ltd., Panchkula will be the Chief Executive Officer of Haryana Parivar Pehchan Authority. The first link officer to the Managing Director, Haryana International Horticulture Marketing Corporation, Ganaur will be the Managing Director, Haryana Minerals Limited, New Delhi.

The first link officer to the Chief Executive Officer of Haryana Parivar Pehchan Authority will be the Chief Executive Officer of Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam Ltd, Panchkula. The first link officer of the Managing Director, Haryana Minerals Limited, New Delhi will be the Managing Director, Haryana International Horticulture Marketing Corporation, Ganaur.

The Chief Secretary said that in order to ensure smooth functioning of the Departments, Boards and Corporations in the absence of the IAS and HCS officers, the mentioned officers will be Link Officer in the event of their being on leave, training, tour or election duty or during the away period of more than 2 days due to any other reason or in the event of vacancy due to retirement or transfer of officer. Every officer shall inform the link officer before going on leave, training, tour, election duty.

IEP Chandigarh, January 17

Haryana Government will also set up special Aadhaar updating counters at Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) camps.

It was disclosed by Haryana Chief Secretary, Sh, Sanjeev Kaushal during a virtual meeting with Deputy Commissioners, Superintendents, Commissioners of Police and other senior officers of district headquarters here today.

Sh. Kaushal directed the officers to make availability of an Iris scanner at E-Disha Kendras at the earliest so that the Aadhaar authentication can be performed effectively. He further directed the officers to organize online and offline training camps at headquarter level to impart training regarding Aadhaar authentication to the officials which would help them to expedite the works of various Departments.

After getting apprised about the development of new ‘mAadhaar’ Aadhaar verification QR code scanner application to facilitate the administration, Sh. Kaushal directed the officers and police personnel at district headquarters to apprise other officials about the use of QR code scanner so as to check duplicacy and prevent redundancy of services offered to the public. A newly developed ‘mAadhaar’, Aadhaar QR Scanner application will also facilitate the officials to authenticate the suspected persons as it will reveal some digits or alphabets of Name, Date of Birth, Address, Gender, Photo, Mobile and Signatures etc of the person.

The Chief Secretary directed the officers to expedite the process of Aadhaar revalidation, Citizens having an Aadhaar generated more than 10 years ago need to revalidate details in their Aadhaar by updating the Proof of Identity (POI) and Proof of Address (POA) documents to steadily avail the benefits of government services.

In the meeting, Additional Chief Secretary, Finance, Sh. Anurag Rastogi, Additional Chief Secretary, Information Technology, Sh. Anand Mohan Sharan, Deputy Director General, UIDAI, Regional Office, Chandigarh, Bhavna Garg and other officers were present.

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Haryana Government official spokesperson on Sunday said that keeping in view to provide better medical care facilities to the economically weak section of Haryana, the state government is implementing various schemes to cater the need of providing super speciality hospitals for their treatment. The state government is providing financial aid to the patients through Chief Minister’s Relief Fund on medical grounds. An official spokesperson of the Health Department said that taking another important step, the Haryana Government has amended the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund scheme to ensure that poor people can get immediate treatment benefits. Besides the treatment of 3 diseases, financial assistance is being provided to the patients for the treatment of 25 chronic diseases under this scheme. The spokesperson informed that applicants seeking financial assistance can avail the facility through the SARAL portal of the government. The amount of financial assistance from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund will be directly transferred to the bank account of the applicant or beneficiary. He said that for financial assistance on medical grounds from CMRF, the applicants can simply apply on the SARAL Portal through her/ his Parivar Pehchan Patra ID by uploading relevant documents like medical bills, OPD bills etc. He informed that as per the amendments made in Chief Minister’s Relief Fund scheme, if any disease is not being covered under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, then the beneficiaries of Ayushman Bharat Yojana will get benefits under this scheme. A district level committee has been formed for providing financial assistance under the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund, in which the concerned Member of Parliament, concerned MLA, Deputy Commissioner, Civil Surgeon, Chairman of Municipal Council and Corporations, Chairman of Zilla Parishad, Chairman of Panchayat Samiti as members and the mayor has been made the nodal officer.  The spokesperson said that after applying on the portal, the application is further marked to the login of Public Representatives of the concerned area (MP, MLA, Chairman Zila Parishad, Chairman Block Samiti, Mayor/President of MCs) for which they may recommend the case within 5 days. Thereafter, the application will be pushed to the user of Deputy Commissioner, who in turn will simultaneously forward the application to concerned Tehsildar and Civil Surgeon for verification of land details and medical documents respectively. The spokesperson said that in order to take benefits of the scheme, a time limit of four days has been set for the verification of the property and five days for the verification of civil surgeon’s office related work. He further informed that the reports received from the above two Departments will be sent to the member secretary of the committee along with the recommendation of the Deputy Commissioner, who in turn will send them to the Senior Accounts Officer. After this the sanctioned amount will be sent directly to the beneficiary’s account.

IEP Chandigarh, January 13

Haryana Chief Minister said that the State has started preparations for hosting G-20 summit meetings that are scheduled to be held in Haryana. Special arrangements are also being made to introduce the state’s culture and heritage to the delegations arriving from different countries, said Sh. Manohar Lal during his visit to Pratapgarh Farm, Jhajjar on Friday.

The Chief Minister also observed the activities related to sports, arts, culture, food, agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry based on the traditional life of Haryana. On this occasion, the Chief Minister also greeted the people of the state on the occasion of Lohri and Makar Sankranti.

Later interacting with the media persons, the Chief Minister said, “With an opportunity to host some meetings of the G-20 summit being chaired by India, Haryana has started preparations for the historic event.”

Meanwhile, visiting Pratapgarh farm today, the Chief Minister was happy to see that village tourism is promoted through this farm. He said that Bhindawas and Sultanpur bird sanctuaries have been tagged as Ramsar site and being in the NCR, tourism will definitely get a boost in the coming times.

Sh. Manohar Lal said that for the first time, India is going to chair the G-20 group meetings under the leadership of Prime Minister, Sh. Narendra Modi.

“It is a matter of pride for all the countrymen that due to the leadership of the Prime Minister India’s identity has been strengthened globally,” he asserted.

The Chief Minister said that some meetings of the G-20 are proposed to be held in Haryana, for which a joint meeting of the top officials of the Centre and the State governments has already been held in New Delhi.

IEP Chandigarh, January 13

 Haryana State Vigilance Bureau has caught a Sub-Inspector of the Police department, red-handed while accepting a bribe worth Rs 30,000 in Nuh district.

Sharing the information in this regard here today, a spokesperson of the Bureau said that accused SI Bharatpal posted at Pinagwa police station in Nuh district has been caught after a complaint of corruption was filed against him.

The accused was demanding bribe from the victim’s father in lieu of arresting the accused involved in a case. After verification of the complaint, a trap was laid and the accused SI was nabbed while he was accepting the bribe.

A case under the Prevention of Corruption Act had been registered against the accused and further investigation is underway.