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HARYANA REVIEW DEC 2017 - JAN 2018                                                                            EDITORIAL 1

                                                           Pressing the gas
                                                             on reforms
                                                       H
                                                                  aving stuck to the reforms path since it assumed office
                                                                  more than three years ago, the Manohar Lal Govern-
                                                                  ment has now decided to put the horse of governance
                                                       reforms in Haryana in full trot. Decidedly, it has been inspired by
                                                       its experience of the reforms undertaken during the last more than
CONSULTING EDITOR                                      three years throwing up unmistakable signs of systemic changes
Parveen K Modi
                                                       in fields more than one, be it recruitment, promotions or transfers.
                                                       The reforms undertaken so far include some truely path-breaking
LAYOUT & DESIGN                                        changes which have paved the way for a transparent and respon-
Monika Modak
                                                       sive administration the people of the state have been craving for.
                                                       The driving force behind these reforms remains the irrepressible
PHOTOGRAPHER
Vinay Malik                                            urge to make the life of the man in the street easy.
                                                           Its hunger for reforms far from satiated, the state government
                                                       organized a three-day “Chintan Shivir’ at Parwanoo in Him-
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                                                       and stitch up a blueprint for a new Haryana. The brainstorming,
                                                       spread over several sessions and joined in by politicians and ad-
VOL 31-32, ISSUE 12-1                                  ministrative secretaries, has yielded draft action plans to bend the
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                                                       administration to the convenience of the people.
                                                           In the Cover Story of this issue of Haryana Review, we make
Edited and published for the Haryana Government
                                                       an incisive attempt to capture the outcome of the Chintan Shivir
by Mr Sameer Pal Srow, IAS, Director General,          in all its hues, unfold what the deliberations will have in store for
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                                                                                                                             Reform, Perform, Transform                                                                                p4

                                                                                                                             Paving way for a new Haryana                                                                              p5
                                                                                                                             The first-ever three-day Chintan Shivir, organized by the Haryana
                                                                                                                             Government at Parwanoo in Himachal Pradesh, has helped in
                                                                                                                             stitching up a blueprint for a new Haryana

                                                                                                                             Time for action plans                                                                                     p8
                                                                                                                             The Chintan Shivir witnessed rolling out of draft action plans
                                                                                                                             by various departments. Groups led by ministers concerned had been

                                                                                                [5]                          constituted to go into the nitty-gritty of the issues involved,
                                                                                                                             draft plans and come out with their outlines

                                                                                                                             Reforms implemented                                                                                       p 10

                                                                                                                             Reforms on the anvil                                                                                      p 18

                                                                                                                             Reforms proposed                                                                                          p 21

                                                                                                                             IN LIMELIGHT
                                                                                                                             For the first time in Haryana                                                                             p 26
                                                                                                                             Out-of-the-box thinking, innovative approach and people-centricity have
                                                                                                                             made the Manohar Lal Government come up with new ideas and concepts,
                                                                                                                             several first-timers, to bend the administration to the needs and convenience
                                                                                                                             of the people, and make life of the man in the street easy

                                                                                             [29]                            Haryana ranks 5th in GST mop-up                                                                           p 34
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CABINET DECISIONS
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MC tenant/lessee can now buy house, shop   p 35

SPECIAL REPORT
Mahotsav takes Gita to globe               p 40

PHOTO FEATURE
Glimpses of Gita Mahotsav                  p 44

REPORT
Dubai eyes Haryana with petro-dollars      p 48
Economy set to take off from Hisar hub     p 51

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 Reform, Perform, Transform
 PA RVE E N K M OD I                       On the completion of three years                            reforms imple-
                                        in office, Mr Manohar Lal shared                                  mented by
                                        his thoughts on this issue in an                                   his govern-

 T
        he horse of governance          article. After listing out the                                      ment, the
        reforms in Haryana is in                    countless num-                                          Chief Min-
        full trot. Signs of systemic                         ber of                                         ister had
 metamorphosis are unmistak-                                                                               concluded:
 able whether in recruitment,                                                                           “Today we
 promotions or transfers. These                                                                        complete three
 reforms have begun to pave                                                                          years in office in
 the way for a transparent and                                                                     Haryana. It is time
 responsive administration the                                                                     for celebrations
 people of Haryana were long                                                                       as much as for
 denied.                                                                                          making a resolve
    The three-year-long saga of                                                                   to see a new butter-
 reforms in Haryana includes some                                                                 fly emerge out of
 truely path-breaking changes.                                                                     the chrysalis of a
 These have been driven by the                                                                      changing Haryana.
 urge to make the life of the                                                                          Not resting on
 man in the street easy. In-                                                                             our laurels, I
 formation Technology has                                                                                  vow to stick
 been harnessed like never                                                                                 to the path of
 before in this pursuit.                                                                                    reforms. In
     Out-of-the-box                                                                                         the coming
 thinking, innovative                                                                                       days, weeks
 approach and peo-                                                                                         and months
 ple-centricity have                                                                                     you will find
 made the state gov-                                                                                   me interacting
 ernment, led by the                                                                                with you every
 Chief Minister, Mr                                                                             month on a new forum
 Manohar Lal, come                                                                        under the banner of Yet
 up with new ideas                                                                      Another Reform.”
 and concepts. While                                                                      His invite for the Chintan
 many of these ideas                                                                  Shivir to the Secretaries asked
 and schemes have                                                                     them to detail the reforms that
 already come to                                                                      have been implemented in their
 fruition, others are                                                                respective departments, those
 set to see the light                                                               under process of implementa-
 of the day in the near                                                             tion, and what else they plan to
 future.                                                                           do to take governance and the
    Hunger for reforms                                                            government to the people. We have
 not satiated, the Haryana                                                       compiled the responses to these in
 Government organized three-                                                   three parts: Reforms implemented;
 day “Chintan Shivir’ at Parwa-                                                Reforms under process; and Reforms
 noo in Himachal Pradesh to give                                               Proposed.
 the reforms process, the next big                                                The Chief Minister is of the firm
 push. The reflections, deliberations                                          conviction that reform is just the
 and brainstorming by all ministers,                                           first step in the democratic deal to
 secretaries to the government, and                                            transform. To achieve this, we must
 senior officers of other All India                                            perform as a team to build a new
 Services helped in deciding the                                               Haryana. And the three-day Chintan
 direction, shape and speed of future                                          Shivir has set the pace for realizing
 reforms.                                                                      this goal.
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                                                                           The Chief Minister, Mr
                                                                           Manohar Lal, delivering the
                                                                           keynote address at the three-
                                                                           day Chintan Shivir at Timber
                                                                           Trail Heights, Parwanoo,
                                                                           Himachal Pradesh. Chief
                                                                           Secretary, Mr D S Dhesi, and
                                                                           Former Governor of Mizoram,
                                                                           Mr A R Kohli, are also seen in
                                                                           the picture

Paving way for a new Haryana
             Three-day Chintan Shivir has more than served the purpose

The first-ever three-day Chintan Shivir, organized by the                        Comptroller of Accountant Gener-
                                                                                 al (CAG) and Centre Information
Haryana Government at Parwanoo in Himachal Pradesh,                              Commission (CIC)—while taking
                                                                                 decisions in honest discharge of
has helped in stitching up a blueprint for a new Haryana                         their duties, did fire up their zeal to
                                                                                 work with added verve and vigour,
PA RVE E N K MOD I                                                               and so change the system as to serve
                                                                                 the people better, and take the state
                                                                                 forward.

W
          ith the salubrious hill-top                                                And third, the brainstorming
          surroundings serving as an                                             lent the reforms process a decisive
          ideal backdrop and serene                                              push, and growth and development
environment, unencumbered by                                                     verticality with the Chief Minister,
the encumbrance of loads of files                                                Mr Manohar Lal, asking the partic-
awaiting clearance, charging up their                                            ipating officers to take up one block
minds, politicians in power, officers                                            each, and ensure that it comes up to
and thinkers met at the three-day                                                the prescribed standards.
Chintan Shivir at Timber Trail,                                                      The Chintan Shivir was organ-
Parwanoo, in Himachal Pradesh, to                                                ised under the aegis of the Haryana
visualize and sew up a blueprint for a                                           Administrative Reforms Department
new Haryana.                             together under same roof, and on        for Cabinet Ministers, officers of
   If one were to squeeze the out-       single platform, to look hence, plan    the Indian Administrative Services
come of the Shivir, the quiver of        and act together.                       (IAS) and Indian Police Service (IPS),
which threw up several arrows of            Second, the notably firm assur-      Indian Forest Service and heads of
new thoughts and suggestions, three      ance of the Chief Minister, Mr          department. Participation by some
major unmissable takeaways take          Manohar Lal, to the officers not to     prominent persons who have logged
the spotlight. First, it brought the     be afraid of the five Cs—CBI, court,    achievements in their respective
political and administrative class       Central Vigilance Commission,           fields, was also ensured to make the
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 exercise wholesome.                       Officers have been                        the state and undertaken develop-
     Summing up the outcome, the                                                     ment works as promised in the par-
 Chief Minister told Haryana Review
                                           told to rise above                        ty’s election manifesto without any
 that the Shivir was a roaring success.    considerations of caste                   regional bias and discrimination.
 It served as a stimulus, produced         and region and assist the                    “I myself visited all the 90 Assem-
 encouraging results, and infused new
                                           government in framing                     bly constituencies of the state and
 energy in the participants to build                                                 announced various development pro-
 a new Haryana. Good team spirit           such policies as met the                  jects irrespective of MLA of which
 was generated and every participant       aspirations of the people                 party represents that area. In some
 seemed to agree that there is need for                                              cases, more development works have
 greater involvement of government         civil services. The credo wants them      been undertaken in areas represent-
 servants in matters that concern the      to remember the sentiment of the          ed by MLAs of Opposition parties,”
 state and its people.                     moment when they first learnt that        he added.
     “All senior officers of Haryana       they have been selected to IAS or IPS,       The old order has changed, some
 would now work together as a well-        and to keep alive the resolution they     ugly practices of the past have been
 knit and cohesive team to ensure that     made then to change the system. If        given a burial, and the faith of the
 in true spirit of Antyodaya, the ben-     one has forgotten that resolution, he     people in the functioning of the pres-
 efits of development reach the last       has clearly gone off track.               ent government has been restored
 man standing in the queue. Usually,          The officers should introspect if      and enhanced. Giving an example,
 the five Cs caused fear among the IAS     they have gone off track. And if they     the latest one, Mr Manohar Lal said
 officers and came in the way of dis-      have, see and find out how far they       in November, the Haryana Urban
 charge of their duties, but I assure      have deviated. “I have full faith that    Development Authority (HUDA) sold
 you that I would always stand by you      the officers can reignite the emo-        a nine-acre plot in Gurugram to a
 in the decisions you take in public       tion of that first moment when they       multinational company IKEA for Rs
 interest”, he averred.                    resolved to be the force that changes     850 crore. But, unlike in the past, no
     Development and public service        the system, and serve the people,” Mr     officer or any other employee of the
 being the sole aim of the present         Manohar Lal said, exhorting every-        company, including the Global Chief
 government, ministers and adminis-        one to contribute towards making          Executive Officer, head in India or
 trative officers should work together     Haryana healthy, educated and             chief accounts officer, met him.
 to frame new polices keeping in view      prosperous.                                  During its three-year tenure, the
 the interest of the people of the state      He asked the participating officers    state government has brought a
 in 2030. Officers were told to rise       to take up one block each and ensure      revolutionary change in the system.
 above considerations of caste and         that it is brought to the prescribed      No person now can get any teacher
 region and assist the government          standards. They would prepare a
 in framing such policies as met the       new scheme for the selected blocks
 aspirations of the people.                by identifying five to ten parameters
                                           from the vision emerging from the
 LOOKING HENCE                             Shivir. An announcement to this
 A politician thinks of working for his    effect would be made and additional
 five-year tenure whereas an admin-        budget would be allocated for the
 istrative officer works to dispose of     purpose. Necessary funds would be
 the work lying on his table today. “We    allocated for any special project or
 should all resolve to work as a states-   scheme in that block.
 man who looks hence and works for            These would remain the selected
 the betterment of the next five gener-    blocks of officers even after they are
 ations”, Mr Manohar lal said.             transferred to another department,
    The state government has pre-          and they would continue to work
 pared Vision Document 2030 and            for their development. Once a block
 administrative secretaries should         achieves the prescribed level, the
 work to ensure its effective imple-       officer concerned would be honoured
 mentation. Besides, they should           on the Civil Services Day on April 21,
 stitch up policies while taking into      2018. If all blocks are bought above
 consideration Haryana in 2019, 2022,      the prescribed level, irrespective
 2027 and 2030.                            of when the status is achieved, all
    The Chief Minister recalled that       officers would be honoured.
 the film screened at the first session       The Chief Minister said that dur-
 of the Shivir included the credo          ing the last three years, the present
 given by the Prime Minister, Mr.          government has given a new direc-
 Narendra Modi, to the officers of all     tion to the political environment in
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transferred in Haryana out of the       "We are open to any good                 suggestions fearlessly.
system. Besides, every sarpanch,
                                        suggestions in this regard and, if       MERE SAPNO KA HARYANA
panch and member of the Block
Samiti in Haryana has cleared Class     given, these would be considered         Speaking at the session on ‘Mere
X or Class VIII examination.            in public interest."                     Sapno Ka Haryana’ organized on the
   Addressing the participants, the                                              second day of the Shivir, Mr Mano-
Governor, Prof Kaptan Singh Solan-                             Manohar Lal       har Lal exhorted the youth who made
ki, asked public representatives and                           Chief Minister    their mark in different fields of life to
bureaucrats to serve the society with                                            come forward and contribute to build-
utmost sensitivity, co-operation and    exceeded the work done during the        ing a new Haryana.
dedication. Only then, we can move      ten-year regime of the previous             It is a matter of pride that
forward with a vision.                  government. Haryana has so far           Sandhya Chauhan, the daughter of
   He expressed happiness that mem-     received 46 awards from the Central      Haryana, is a pilot in India Navy. The
bers of the cabinet, including the      Government and other organizations       youth should take inspiration from
Chief Minister and senior bureau-       in recognition of its outstanding        such young achievers so that they
crats, had taken collective decisions   performance in different fields.         could also make vital contribution
for the development of state in group       Haryana which held 14th position     to building a new Haryana. Haryana
meetings at the Shivir.                 in terms of ease of doing business       could take assistance of actor and
                                        is now competing for the top slot.       stand-up comedian, Mr Sunil Grover,
OPEN TO ANY GOOD SUGGESTIONS            Besides transparent online teach-        in scripting its film policy.
Speaking at an interactive session      ers transfer policy, merit-based            Besides, assistance would also
on the second day of the Shivir, the    government jobs, making the state        be sought from young technocrat,
Chief Minister stressed the need for    kerosene-free and Beti Bachao–Beti       Mr Neeraj Aggarwal, in the field of
strengthening the feeling of owner-     Padhao Programmes are among the          Information Technology (IT). Ms
ship and belongingness of all citi-     major initiatives taken by the present   Sandhya Chauhan, Mr Neeraj Aggar-
zens in the efforts aimed to hasten     government, he added.                    wal and actor and stand-up comedian,
progress, development and growth in         Chairman, Haryana Governance         Mr Sunil Grover, also shared their
the state. “We are open to any good     Reforms Authority (HGRA), Prof.          views on ‘Mere Sapna Ka Haryana’.
suggestions in this regard and, if      Parmod Kumar, complimented the              The first-of-its kind Chintan Shivir
given, these would be considered in     efforts of the state government in or-   may be over, but it will continue to
public interest”, he added.             ganizing the Chintan Shivir and said     charge up politicians and officers for
   The work done by the present gov-    it provided an opportunity to officers   long, and pave the way for building a
ernment during its three-year tenure    and ministers to give their vibrant      new Haryana.=

        The Chief Minister speaking
        at the Chintan Shivir
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 Time for action plans
 The Chintan Shivir witnessed rolling out of draft action plans by various
 departments. Groups led by ministers concerned had been constituted to go into
 the nitty-gritty of the issues involved, draft plans and come out with their outlines
 PA RVE E N K M OD I                       this group will certainly bring Hary-
                                           ana closer to realization of the Prime
                                           Minister’s vision.

 H
         aving been on the anvil for          Mr Dhankar said the government
         quite some time, it was time      had fixed a target to ensure farmers
         for draft action plans to be      income of between Rs 60,000 and Rs
 rolled out by various departments at      1 lakh per acre. To achieve this goal,
 the Chintan Shivir. The first session     we would encourage diversification
 on the last day of the three-day brain-   of crops, increase productivity,
 storming saw unveiling of these           cattle-rearing, direct marketing of
 plans.                                    produce, agri-service, value addition-      Rao Narbir Singh     Dr Banwari Lal
    Groups led by ministers con-           al packaging, branding and integrat-
 cerned had been constituted on dif-       ed farming.                               Utilization till the Last Drop, on the
 ferent subjects to go into these plans,      Increase in the Minimum Support        second day of the Chintan Shivir.
 and come out with their outlines. All     Price of crops every year has en-            The state has limited resources
 ministers, administrative secretar-       sured fair and remunerative prices to     of water which ought to be used
 ies and a number of MLAs were             farmers. “We have made our farmers        optimally so that water saved could
 present during presentation of the        completely risk-free as all crops are     be used elsewhere. Carrier channels
 recommendations made by different         either covered under the Pradhan          would be repaired to prevent leakage
 groups.                                   Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana or by the        and seepage of water. Similarly, Solid
    The draft plans pertained to dou-      compensation policy of the state          Treatment Plants (STPs) would be
 bling the income of farmers, optimiz-     government. Besides, technological        installed to recycle water. Through
 ing utilization of water by enhancing     support provided by agriculture and       water harvesting, natural water
 efficiency in its usage, making more      allied departments has also helped        could be conserved, he added.
 youths of Haryana Saksham, and            in enhancing their income”. Mr               The minister said since water was
 rejuvenating urban life which will        Dhankar added.                            largely consumed by the agriculture
 be reviewed on a regular basis every         Listing various recommenda-            sector in the state, there was need to
 two years.                                tions made by the group, he said all      generate awareness among the farm-
                                           suggestions and recommendations           ers on how to use less water but have
 DOUBLING FARMERS’ INCOME                  would help in achieving the desired       yield of good crops.
                     The Agriculture       results. This group was co-chaired           Dr Banwari Lal, Minister of State
                     and Farmers’          by Minister of State for Labour and       for Public Health and Engineering,
                     Welfare Minister,     Employment, Mr Nayab Singh Saini.         said available water supply should be
                     Mr O.P. Dhankar,                                                optimally utilized and conserved to
                     who chaired           WATER UTILIZATION TILL LAST DROP          cope with water shortage.
                     Group-I on ‘Agri-     All ponds will be cleaned in Haryana         Mr Sushil Gupta, Former Chair-
                     culture Reforms       to conserve natural water and solar       man, Centre Ground Water Board,
                     for Doubling          systems will be installed on water        said, “The water table of Haryana
                     Farmer’s Income’      works to stop evaporation. This           was seven to eight meters in 1980,
                     gave an impres-       will not only help save water but         which has now increased to 17 to 18
   Mr O P Dhankar
                     sive presentation     will also increase sources of energy      meters. We must conserve water. Mr
                     on how to achieve     generation.                               Anurag Rastogi, Principal Secretary,
 the desired goal, and realize the            This was disclosed by the Public       Irrigation, also spoke on the occa-
 Prime Minister’s vision of doubling       Works (Buildings and Roads) Minis-        sion.
 the income of farmers by 2022. The        ter, Rao Narbir Singh, while chair-          Principal Secretary, Irrigation
 action plan and recommendations of        ing a session in Group 11 on Water        and Water Resources, Mr Anurag
HARYANA REVIEW DEC 2017 - JAN 2018                                                              COVER STORY: REFORMS 9

Rastogi, highlighted the challenges      aligning the qualification of govern-      various parts in the state as to ensure
discussed by Group-II chaired by         ment job with National Skill Devel-        income for municipalities.
Rao Narbir Singh, and co-chaired by      opment Qualification framework,               Giving details of Group-IV formed
Dr Banwari Lal on optimum utiliza-       strengthening of assessment and            to suggest measures for Urban Reju-
tion of every drop of water.             certification agencies of skills, train-   venation, chaired by Mrs Jain and
    He favoured state water policy on    ing of unemployed youth for skill          co-chaired by Mr Grover, Principal
utilization of surface and ground wa-    and entrepreneurships and launch of        Secretary, Urban Local Bodies, Mr
ter should be formed. The other rec-     aggressive campaign for placement.         Anand Mohan Sharan, said since
ommendations of the group include                                                   housing problem had become acute
enactment of state groundwater and       REJUVENATING URBAN LIFE                    in urban areas, emphasis should be
management regulation act, setting                                                  laid on rental housing and private
up of state water regulatory author-                                                sector should be included in this
ity, enforcement of existing bye-laws                                               process.
on rainwater harvesting.                                                               Mr Sharan suggested that pro-
    The group also recommended                                                      visions of the Model Tenancy Act
that budgetary allocation for micro                                                 should be incorporated in the State
irrigation should be doubled, and                                                   Tenancy Act to increase adoption
micro irrigation should be made                                                     of rental housing. Inclusive slum
mandatory over a period of time.                                                    development and industrial hous-
Farmers should be encouraged and                                                    ing should also be taken care off in
                                                                Mr Manish Kumar
incentivized to adopt less water-in-       Mrs Kavita Jain           Grover
                                                                                    urban areas. Slum re-development
tensive crops and install energy-effi-                                              policy should be formulated for
cient pumps.                                                                        urban areas. Housing demand can
    In addition, an extensive aware-     The Haryana Urban Local Bodies             be addressed by increasing the FAR
ness campaign should be launched         Minister, Mrs Kavita Jain, has             in existing housing and upcoming
by the Departments of Agriculture,       stressed the need for evolving a policy    projects, provided sufficient civic
Irrigation, Public Health Engineer-      on traffic management to address the       amenities are provided.
ing, Development and Panchayats          traffic and parking needs in the pres-        HUDA and the Housing Board
and NGOs.                                ent-day era of rapid urbanization.         should float more sectors for afforda-
                                            Speaking at the session in Group        ble housing. In addition, survey of
MAKING MORE YOUTHS SAKSHAM               IV on Urban Rejuvenation on the            slum areas should be conducted to
                                         second day of Shivir, Mrs Jain said        evaluate the literacy rate in urban
                                         basic amenities should be provided in      areas and all street lights should be
                                         the rural areas on a par with urban        converted to LED in ESCROW model.
                                         areas to ensure better livelihood as          Mr Sharan said the group also
                                         well as to avoid migration or shifting     suggested that a robust accounting
                                         of people from rural areas. The state      mechanism be introduced in the mu-
                                         government is heading towards trans-       nicipalities to make them financially
                                         formation in all spheres of develop-       sound, the share of the GST provided
                                         ment including the urbanization.           to ULBs, and property tax collection
                                            She also emphasised the need            system be based on strong incentives
   Mr Ram Bilas
                                         for capacity building, planned             and disincentives.
     Sharma            Mr Vipul Goel
                                         development and strengthening of              Besides, connected through App,
                                         infrastructure in urban areas, and         common cadre for municipalities
Sharing recommendations of Group–        added that the state government was        should be implemented, more housing
III on ‘Saksham Haryana’ headed          working in this direction.                 should be developed in tehsils/sub-di-
by the Education Minister, Mr Ram           The Minister of State for Coop-         visions to ease the pressure on bigger
Bilas Sharma, and co-chaired by          eration, Mr Manish Kumar Grover,           towns, and housing demand should be
the Industries Minister, Mr Vipul        highlighted the importance of urban        addressed by increasing FAR in the
Goel, the Principal Secretary, Skill     rejuvenation and suggested that we         existing and upcoming projects.
Development and Industrial Train-        would have to move towards tehsils
ing Department, Mr T.C. Gupta, said      and sub-divisions for urban expansion.     MOPPING UP RESOURCES
Saksham Yuva Scheme had already              The Haryana Urban Development          Principal Secretary, Power, Mr
been implemented to equip the youth      Authority and Housing Board must           PK Das, Coordinator of Group on
with requisite skills for employabili-   develop residential colonies and de-       Resource Mobilization, listed the
ty and entrepreneurship.                 velopment markets in these areas as        measures suggested by members of
    He listed the reforms planned by     these are now connected with cities.       the group chaired by the Chief Min-
group members, including overhaul-       He also suggested that the depart-         ister, Mr Manohar Lal, for raising
ing of industrial training in ITI,       ment should so handle its property in      resources.=
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  Reforms implemented
  REVENUE & DISASTER MANAGEMENT                 Judgments. The RCCMS has                  na Certificate System: All
  DEPARTMENT                                    been further enhanced to cap-             kinds of certificates (Caste,
  1.   The Integrated Property Reg-             ture the land details. The details        Domicile, Income, Residence
       istration System (HARIS) and             of more than 1.65 lakh Revenue            etc) were made online through
       Land Records Management                  Court cases have been mapped              workflow-based system. Har-
       System (HALRIS): These have              to land details under dispute and         yana Certificates System has
       been implemented in all 142 Teh-         placed in the public domain, as           been launched under UMANG
       sils/Sub-Tehsils. The uniqueness         per the requirements of EoDB              (Unified Mobile Application for
       of integration is that e-System          (Ease of Doing Business).                 New-age Governance), which is
       on-line verifies the ownership       6. e-KYC in Deed Registration,                envisaged to make e-governance
       and share of the seller. It is not       capturing of consent based                ‘mobile first’.
       possible to sell same piece of           Aadhaar: The property regis-          11. Skoch Order of Merit Award:
       land multiple times without              tration software got enhanced to          For e-Registration of land and
       sanctioning mutations.                   capture Aadhaar. The software             e-Stamping Skoch Order of
  2.   e-Registration Web-enabled               was developed to e-Authenti-              Merit has been received by
       Appointment Management                   cate (e-KYC) buyers, sellers and          Revenue Department, Skoch
       System: Districts namely,                witnesses at the time of deed             Order of Merit Award 2017 for
       Ambala, Faridabad, Fatehabad,            registration.                             e-Khasra Gridawari, mobile app
       Gurugram, Hisar, Jhajjar,            7. Capturing PAN: The HARIS                   for crop inspection and Skoch
       Kaithal, Karnal, Mahendergarh,           software got enhanced to capture          Order of Merit Award 2017 for
       Mewat,Palwal, Panipat, Rohtak,           PAN. For online verification of           Revenue Court Case Monitoring
       and Sirsa have achieved average          PAN, Revenue Department has               System(RCCMS), web-based
       delivery same day. The remain-           tied up with NSDL (National               application to manage revenue
       ing districts are also being             Securities Depository Ltd.).              court cases.
       persuaded to bring the delivery      8. Stamp Duty Calculator: A               12. Dynamic Integration of
       of registered deed same day.             stamp duty calculation software           Property Registration, Land
  3.   e-Stamping in e-Registra-                has been developed and hosted             Records and Cadastral Maps:
       tion: The property registration          in public domain for the inves-           This project of Revenue and
       system verifies and fetches the          tors under EoDB, on the web               Disaster management Depart-
       details of e-Stamp and Govern-           portal http://jamabandi.nic.              ment, Govt. of
       ment Receipt Number (GRN)                in. The software also facilitates         Haryana,
       from e-GRAS server. After the            calculation of registration fee.          got
       deed registration, the e-Stamp       9. Meeting NOC requirements:
       and GRN number are defaced               A software was developed in
       automatically (unique facility           consultation with Town &
       not available in other states).          Country Planning Depart-
  4.   e-Girdawari Mobile App: The              ment, and got integrat-
       App which operates in integra-           ed with HARIS, to
       tion with the existing infra-            meet the require-
       structure and HALRIS software,           ments of NoC
       has been developed. The App              under sec-
       captures GPS coordinates and             tion 7-A in
       image of crop of field location,         urban
       making verification possible             areas.
       (Unique App). This will help         10. Har-
       in reduction of compensation             ya-
       disputes.
  5.   Revenue Court Cases Monitor-
       ing System (RCCMS): Automat-
       ed the judicial administration
       system in Revenue Courts.
       System facilitates online access
       to Cause Lists, Case Status, and
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      the prestigious ”Gem of Digital             cation No.Leg.31/2017 dated 17th              duced/improved to facilitate
      India 2017” award.                          November, 2017.                               the prisoners to talk to their
13.   ICT-enabled Emergency                18.    Delivery at doorstep: Mul-                    relatives. Thirty-five minutes of
      Operation Centres (EOC):                    tiple channel delivery of 105                 talk time per week permitted for
      These have been set up at SHQ               e-Services at the doorstep of the             welfare of prisoners.
      at Haryana New Secretariat for              citizen through CSCs (Atal Sewa         3.    All-woman police stations
      disaster management, Sector-17,             Kendras), 125 e-Disha Centers                 opened in all districts of Hary-
      Chandigarh.                                 and Department’s front offices                ana on Raksha Bandhan day in
14.   Revenue divisions, districts                introduced.                                   2015.
      upgraded: The present gov-           19.    Certificates online: All kinds          4.    All arms licences issued from
      ernment has recently created/               of dertificates (Caste, Domicile,             the state computerised and
      upgraded 02 Revenue Divisions,              Income, Residence etc) were                   loaded on the NDAL Portal of
      01 District, 10 Sub-Divisions,              made online through workflow                  MHA, GOI.
      10 Tehsils and 11 Sub-tehsils.              based system.                           5.    Successful implementation of
      At present, the state consists       20.    On top of the ladder: Haryana                 immigration/VISA & Foreign-
      of 06 Divisions, 22 Districts, 72           achieved Rank 1 in e-District                 ers Registration and Tracking
      Sub- Divisions, 93 Tehsils and 49           Implementation, as per April                  (IVFRT) under the National
      Sub-Tehsils                                 2016 official ranking of MeiTY,               E-Governance plan.
15.   Amendments made: Amend-                     Govt of India.                          6.    Launch of 24x7 Citizens’ Portal
      ments have been made in the          21.    Aadhaar Saturation: Haryana                   of Haryana Police “HARSA-
      Punjab Land Revenue Act as                  achieved the rank of 1st state                MAY”.
      per the Punjab Land Revenue                 in India to implement Aadhaar-          7.    Notification of 40 services under
      (Haryana Amendment) Act, 2017,              based Birth & Death Registra-                 the Haryana Right to Service
      vide Notification No.Leg.12/2017            tion System so as to cover 100%               Act, 2015
      dated 10th April, 2017.                     newly born child.                       8.    A revised/comprehensive Hary-
16.   Land purchase policy: Fram-          22.    Aadhaar Seeding in various                    ana Litigation Policy drafted to
      ing of policy for purchase of               beneficiary schemes: ineligi-                 make the Government a respon-
      land voluntarily offered to                 ble and duplicate beneficiaries               sible litigant.
      government for development                  weeded out of kerosene subsi-           9.    Victim compensation scheme
      projects vide Notification                  dies, PDS, Social Pensions and                revised to give time and just re-
      No.273A-R-5-2017/884 dated 6th              Pre and Post Matric scholarship.              lief to the innocent Acid Attack
      February, 2017.                             Haryana became first kero-                    Victims.
17.   Consolidation of Projects                   sene-free state, after data from        10.   NRI Cell set up in police depart-
      Act: The Haryana Consolida-                 all LPG companies was provided                ment.
      tion of Project Lands (Special              to Food & Supply department.            11.   Launch of Mitra Kaksh in police
                  Provisions) Act, 2017    23.    STPI (Software Technology                     stations in two districts (Karnal
                          notified vide           Park of India): The park was                  & Rohtak) on a pilot basis.
                                 Notifi-          approved at Panchkula.                  12.   Mobile Forensic science Unit
                                                                                                (MFSU) set up in the remaining
                                           HOME DEPARTMENT                                      10 districts.
                                                 1.     To bring transparency in          13.   Cyber police stations established
                                                      the day-to-day functioning,               at range level.
                                                         a Prisons Management             14.   IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National
                                                            Software, which was de-             Open University) Centers set up
                                                               veloped by inmates of            in the Central Jail, Ambala, Dis-
                                                                 Gurugram Prison                trict Jail Sirsa, Karnal, Gurgaon
                                                                   is being run as              and Faridabad, to enable the
                                                                      a pilot project           prison inmates to study.
                                                                        only in one       15.   National Institute of Open
                                                                          jail.                 Schooling Centres have been
                                                                   2.       Prisoners           opened in jails.
                                                                              Calling     16.   Vocational training is provided
                                                                                System          to prison inmates in jails with
                                                                                 (PIS)          the help of RSETI/Lead Banks,
                                                                                  in-           Technical Education Dept. and
                                                                                   tro-         NGOs.
                                                                                          17.   All wages to prison inmates for
                                                                                                the work done by them are paid
                                                                                                through savings bank account in
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      various nationalized banks like
      State Bank of India and Punjab
      National Bank.
  18. The Prisons Dept. has started
      Public Private Partnership                  ap-
      schemes with the approval of                pli-
      the State Government for the                ca-
      welfare of the prisoners which              tions
      will help them in creating job              from
      opportunities and start their               prospec-
      own business.                               tive en-
  19. Existing coupon system in                   trepreneurs
      canteens has been converted                 through CAF and
      into cashless system to increase            provision of online,
      transparency.                               machine wherein data
                                                  of farmers is being cap-
  ELECTRONICS & IT                                tured. After 100% coverage
  1.   Formulation and implementa-                in two pilot Districts i.e. Karnal
       tion of Haryana Entreprises                & Kurukshetra, the scheme has
       Promotion Policy Haryana:                  now been extend to all the Dis-            un-
       Entreprise Promotion Act and               trict of the State.                        der in
       rules were successfully steered                                                       Public Health
       in the Haryana Vidhan Sabha           HEALTH DEPARTMENT                               alongwith the facility under
       and Haryana Cabinet respec-           1.   Introduction of seven different            BISWAS was extended through
       tively, in order to implement the          coloured bed sheets representing           Mobile App.
       unique “single roof ” concept in           “Indradhanush” (VIBGYOR)              3.   lntroduction of Human Re-
       Haryana.                                   colours for different days in              source Management system
  2.   Ease of doing Business: with               the week in government hospi-              (HRMS): The department
       unstinted support from the In-             tals in order to bring down the            introduced HRMS for proper
       dustries Minister which resulted           infection rate, resulting in quick         management of service record
       in catapulting rank of Hary-               healing of patients.                       of office employees and also
       ana under the “ease of doing          2.   Procurement and supply of                  facilitated other matters relating
       business” from 14 to 6 at all India        WHO GMP certified quality med-             to employees i.e. sanction of
       level.                                     icines to all Government Health            leave and loan, maintenance of
  3.   Major initiatives have been                Care Institutions.                         service books etc.
       taken to promote village level en-                                               4.   Tertiary treatment of Sew-
       trepreneurship and delivery of        SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND                           age: To meet out the standards
       e-governance services through         INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND                         for re-use and re-cycle of the
       CSCs which are rechristened           EMPLOYMENT                                      treated sewage, process of
       as “Atal Seva Kendra (ASK)” in        Saksham Haryana Cell constituted in             up-gradation of the existing sew-
       Haryana.                              July, 2017                                      age treatment plants has been
  4.   Haryana is the first State to offer                                                   initiated.
       all treasury payment and taxes        PUBLIC HEALTH & ENGINEERING                5.   Shikayat Nivaran Kendra
       through eGras system which is         DEPARTMENT                                      with Toll free No. 1800-180-5678
       integrated with CSC Portal.           1.   Launch of BISWAS (Billing                  launched for redressal of public
  5.   A total of 111 ASK @ e-Disha               Information for Water & Sew-               grievances. It addressed 6,037
       have been set up in Haryana at             erage) software: The facility              out of a total of 6123 grievances
       Tehsil and sub-Tehsil level for            of receipt of online application           received.
       the facilitation of citizens.              from consumers, for sanction
  6.   First in the country to imple-             of water and sewer connections        COOPERATION DEPARTMENT
       ment Aadhaar seeding at the                along with online sanction by         1.   Pro-active steps taken for consti-
       time of child birth, verification          department and payment of                  tution of Co-operative Election
       of “Jeevan Praman Patra” using             water / sewer bill, printing of            Authority in consonance with
       aadhaar, successful implemen-              duplicate bill has been made               the 97th Constitutional Amend-
       tation of e-governance services            available.                                 ment.
       through e-district etc.               2.   Launch of Mobile App: The             2.   Loan schemes for vegetable and
  7.   The “Single roof structure” has            facility of lodging 24*7 com-              fruit grower co-operative soci-
       been implemented in the Depart-            plaint regarding water supply,             eties and women co-operative
       ment of Industries by inviting             sewerage & storm water in areas            societies have been approved to
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                                                                                     1.   Six-week summer industrial
                                                                                          training after 2nd/3rd year of
                                                                                          Diploma/Degree programs
                                                                             sandh        introduced for all courses so that
                                                                            and           the Polytechnic/Engineering
                                                                           Flour          College students become more
                                                                         Mill,            conversant with industry.
                                                                       Traori and    2. Industry institute interaction:
                                                                     first prize          MOUs being signed by polytech-
                                                                  was awarded             nics with local industry and
                                                                for Financial             with training agencies having
                                                              Management by the           connect with industry for train-
                                                            National Federation           ing and placement of students.
                                                         of Cooperative Sugar        3. New policy on promotion to
                                                      Factories Ltd. for 2016-17.         higher semester: It has been
                                                  9. Hafed launched four new              decided by the Haryana State
                                               products i.e. Multi-Flora Honey,           Board of Technical Education
                                               fortified Edible Oils, whole               that a student shall be allowed to
                                               wheat daliya and Seed Plants               promote in 3rd Semester if he/
                               boost the       Gannour.                                   she has cleared at least 4 theory
                           co-operative    10. Sugarfed: Three Sugar Mills                subjects in 1st and 2nd Semester
                 movement and for              were awarded at the national lev-          (combined).
     empowerment of women in the               el for the performance in 2016-17.    Quality Reforms:
     co-operative sector.                  11. E-procurement has been started           1. Revision of diploma level
3.   New Model Bye-laws for Co-op-             by the Sugar Fed and the cooper-              curriculum as per National
     erative Group Housing Societies           ative sugar mills.                            Skill Qualification Frame-
     have been approved for registra-                                                        work (NSQF): It is a compe-
     tion of new Co-operative Soci-        HARYANA PUBLIC WORKS BUILDING                     tency-based framework that
     eties and for taking part in the      AND ROADS DEPARTMENT                              organizes all qualifications
     coming Group Housing Schemes          1.   Launch of Mobile App for                     according to a series of levels
     through e-auction.                         speedy disposal: To bring                    of knowledge, skills and
4.   One Time Settlement Scheme                 transparency and for speedy                  aptitude. These levels, graded
     for Chronic N.P.A./over-dues               disposal of work in the depart-              from one to ten, are defined in
     in District Central Cooperative            ment, a Facebook page and one                terms of learning outcomes
     Banks (DCCBs) has been extend-             WhatsApp No. has been provided               which the learner must
     ed up to 31 .12.2017 to improve            on which any person can write                possess regardless of whether
     the financial health of DCCBs by           to get his work done from the                they are obtained through for-
     minimizing NPAs and to provide             department.                                  mal, non-formal or informal
     opportunities to the borrowers        2.   To bring transparency and                    learning.
     to avail themselves of the benefit         speedy release of contractor’s          2. Accreditation of govt.
     of the scheme.                             payments, the demand is re-                  polytechnics: A program has
5.   POS machines installed at var-             ceived from field offices through            been approved as a Swarn
     ious Co-operative Institutions             email and processed in a time-               Jayanti Project in order to
     i.e. HAFED, sugar Mills, HAR-              bound manner.                                effectively meet the eligibility
     co Bank, DpcARD Bank, Milk            3.   Government has launched HAR-                 requirements of NBA accred-
     unions etc.                                PATH App for citizens grievanc-              itation.
6.   The process of online registra-            es. This app can be downloaded       Soft skill training in all semes-
     tion of Co-operative Societies is          from play store on any android       ters:
     being taken up on priority basis.          smart phone. Using this app          1. Technical Universities and
7.   HAFED has emerged as the                   anyone can complaint for repair           Engineering Colleges have been
     largest procurement agency by              of road for road damaged with             asked to participate in NIRF for
     procuring 33% of paddy and 36%             geo tagged photographs.                   ranking. Present NIRF Ranking
     of wheat in the State. Moreover       4.   Introduction of Human Re-                 GJU- 29
     25 metric tonnes of bajra also             source Management System             2. The polytechnic diploma courses
     mopped up. Under PSI, highest              (HRMS)                                    under the department of techni-
     procurement of sunflower was                                                         cal education declared equiva-
     made in 2017-18.                      DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL                        lent to that of 10+2
8.   The profitability and production      EDUCATION, HARYANA                        3. Introduction of soft skills in all
     improved in the Sugar Mill As-        Access:                                        semester in polytechnic
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  4.   Introduction and redesigning                chatar Shiksha Abhiyan) and                Drawing and Disbursing Officers
       of various formats: ACR of the              IWDP (Integrated Watershed De-             (DDOs) of Chandigarh Treasury
       faculty, Property Return Pro-               velopment Programme) are to be             w.e.f. 01.05.2017.
       forma to be submitted by Class              enrolled on PFMS till 31/03/2018      5.   Online e-TDS return file:
       I,II,III officers, child care leave,        up to Block Level.                         All DDOs have been given the
       permission for higher qualifica-       2.   Human Resource Management                  facility to generate file for online
       tion, foreign visits.                       System (HRMS) has been imple-              e-TDS return through e-Billing
                                                   mented. Under HRMS, personal               system without the help of Char-
  SCHOOL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT                      information of each employee               tered Accountant (CA), resulting
  Framing of Teachers Transfer                     like Service Book, ACRs, promo-            in huge savings.
  Policy-2016: This policy has been                tion, leave, transfer details etc     6.   Aadhaar Enabled Jeevan
  implemented in online mode us-                   have been entered. The HRMS                Pramaan Patra (Life Certificate)
  ing ICT, to ensure equitable, de-                has been integrated with IFMS              System for Government pension-
  mand-based distribution of teachers/             e-Billing to enable the process of         ers has been implemented in the
  heads to protect academic interests              generation and submission of               State.
  of students and optimize job satis-              pay-bills, pension management,        7.   Integrated Financial and Human
  faction among its employees in a fair            loans and re-imbursement of                Resource Management Infor-
  and transparent manner.                          employees etc.                             mation System (IF&HRMIS):
                                              3.   e-Stamping: The state gov-                 The Finance Department
  HIGHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT                      ernment has implemented                    has successfully developed
  1.   Academic reforms like up-                   e-Stamping in the entire state             and implemented Integrated
       loading of lesson plans on the              w.e.f. 01.03.2017. The citizen can         Financial and Human Resource
       website of all Polytechnics/                generate Stamp papers online af-           Management Information Sys-
       Engg. Colleges started so that              ter successful payment through             tem (IF&HRMIS) for the State
       students know the topics which              Payment Aggregator Services                Government.
       will be covered in a semester by            using State Bank India, Punjab        8.   Direct Benefit Transfer
       a teacher.                                  National Bank and IDBI Bank                (DBT): It is a major reform
  2.   Bio metric attendance system                aggregator. In addition, three             initiative launched by the Gov-
       introduced at HQ, Government                banks i.e PNB, IDBI Bank and               ernment of India to re-engineer
       Polytechnics/Engineering Col-               SBI have been allowed Net Bank-            the existing the cumbersome
       leges and Technical Universities.           ing, RTGS, NEFT, Credit card,              delivery processes using modern
  3.   Centralized File Tracking Sys-              Debit card and seek the date of            Information and Communica-
       tem implemented at HQ.                      registration from Revenue Au-              tion Technology (ICT). This
                                                   thority by using HARIS portal.             Programme aims to transfer
  FINANCE AND PLANNING                        4.   Digitization of Vouchers:                  benefits directly into
  DEPARTMENT                                       Haryana is the only State which            the bank /
  1.   Public Finance Management                   has been allowed by the Comp-              post-
       System (PFMS) is an online                  troller and Auditor General of
       management information and                  India (CAG) to switch over from
       decision support system for the             manual to digitized voucher
       Central assisted and Central                (e-Voucher) initially on pi-
       Sector schemes of the Govern-               lot basis in Chandigarh
       ment of India (GOI) under which             Treasury. The State
       a web portal has been created               Government has
       to share the online releases of             successfully
       funds to the state. The system is           piloted digi-
       able to track the flow of funds             tization of
       from GOI to end beneficiaries on            Voucher
       real time basis. The master data            for all
       is already in sync with PFMS                the
       and data of all the schemes has
       been mapped with PFMS. The
       system is being implemented for
       NHM and SSA and Scholarship
       schemes for Education Depart-
       ment. Now as per the guidelines
       of GoI, three schemes namely,
       NRHM (National Rural Health
       Mission), RUSA (Rashtriya Uch-
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      al accounts, preferably Aadhaar           mentation.                                plemented in the State since
      seeded, of accurately targeted        16. Centralised File Movement &               June, 2017.
      beneficiaries.                            Tracking Information System          4.   Succeeded in implementing the
9.    For effective monitoring and              introduced. Effective weekly              on-line procurement system
      management of debt and cash               meetings and tracking files pend-         for procurement of wheat and
      flow, a Debt and Cash Manage-             ing for more than 15 days and 07          paddy in the State.
      ment Cell (DMC) was set up in             days were regularly held.            5.   All the 9500 Depots have gone
      the Finance Department                                                              on-line and not even a single
10.   Merger of the Plan and Non            IRRIGATION & WATER RESOURCES                  grain under PDS is being distrib-
      Plan Schemes                          DEPTT                                         uted either off-line or without
11.   Public Ledger Accounts (PLA),         1.   The department worked day and            Aadhaar verification
      to avoid the parking of funds by           night for improving capacity of     6.   Automation of FPS has resulted
      departments, etc., in their bank           the Lift Irrigation pump houses,         in saving of 25%. Even more
      accounts outside the Treasury.             for removing carrier capacity            important is the fact that the
12.   All payments to the already                constraints and bottlenecks of           foodgrain being distributed is
      employed contractual employees             running canals, by cleaning,             reaching the legitimate benefi-
      through Direct Benefit Transfer            desilting and rehabilitating             ciaries. This project has been
      (DBT) mechanism                            dilapidated distributaries and           appreciated by Govt. of India.
13.   It has been decided to carry out           minors and by tirelessly guard-
      asset mapping of State’s resourc-          ing the banks of canals that        NEW & RENEWABLE
      es and prepare registry of public          were carrying unprecedented         ENERGY DEPARTMENT
      assets.                                    quantity of water.                  Ground Mounted Solar Power
14.   Shifting of portfolio of the          2.   A novel Community Based             Plants:
      outstanding and future State               Solar Powered Micro Irrigation      1. Haryana Solar Policy, 2016
      Government Employees’ loans                project in canal commands has       2. Installation of Solar Power
      to banks in respect of loans for           been implemented for the first          Plants is being allowed on Govt./
      Housing, Vehicle, Computer,                time in the country. This project       Panchayat / Private land also.
      Consumer Durable Goods and                 will achieve significant saving         (earlier it was only for HPGCL
      other personal loans of govern-            in water consumption per acre           land)
      ment employees taken by the                for various crops resulting in      3. So far, ground mounted solar
      Government was implemented.                less drawal of underground              power projects of 49.8 MW
15.   The e-Post mechanism bringing              water and/or higher irrigation          capacity have been set up in the
      in all the posts sanctioned, filled        intensity.                              State and the utilities are in the
      up and vacant for all DDOs of all                                                  process of inviting bids for pur-
              departments implement-        FOOD, CIVIL SUPPLIES &                       chase of 300 MW solar power.
                        ed after rigorous   CONSUMERS AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT             Grid connected rooftop (gcrt)
                               imple-       1.  The State of Haryana became          solar power projects:
                                                Kerosene free from 1st April,        1. Increased FAR up to 12% is
                                                2017.                                    allowed on installation of Solar
                                             2. This has resulted in saving of           Power Plants in Haryana Build-
                                                 about Rs.300 crore per annum            ing Code 2017.
                                                    and Haryana is the only          2. For easy and fast access to the
                                                       State to have achieved            above incentive based scheme of
                                                          this milestone                 the State Govt to the beneficiar-
                                                            3.         The auto-         ies, online software launched on
                                                               mation of Fair            17.8.2016 for sanction and release
                                                                 Price Shops and         of subsidy.
                                                                   Supply Chain      Solar Water Pumps For Farmers:
                                                                     Manage-         1. In order to make farming on
                                                                       ment              small land holdings viable
                                                                         System          & to reduce the agriculture
                                                                          suc-           input cost, the State Govt. has
                                                                           cess-         amended existing solar water
                                                                             fully       pumping scheme under which
                                                                              im-        solar pumps of 2 HP to 5 HP
                                                                                         capacity are being provided to
                                                                                         the farmers at 10% of the system
                                                                                         cost. The State Govt. is provid-
                                                                                         ing subsidy over and above the
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       approximate 30% subsidy being
       provided by the Ministry of New
       & Renewable Energy, Govt. of
       India.
  2.   In order to meet the basic energy
       needs of household through                Ser-
       solar energy, the State Govt.             vices
       has launched a new scheme of              as on
       providing 1.00 Lakh Manohar
       Jyoti under which a solar home           17.06.1995
       lighting system costing about Rs.        and
       23,000 consisting of 3 LED lights,       31.03.2006.
       one ceiling fan and 2 mobile             The Committee
       charging ports is provided with          had submitted its
       75% subsidy. During the current          report to the Govern-
       financial year 50,000 systems            ment in August, 2017 and
       shall be provided.                       it is being analysed at the
                                                level of the Government.
  ELECTION DEPARTMENT                       6. Full Direct benefit Transfer
  1.   Geo-fencing technology used              (DBT) disbursal of Pensions               by
       to target the eligible young to      7. Aadhaar linkage had been done              initi-
       become voters.                           in case of almost 99% pension-            ating Harya-
  2.   Became first state in country to         ers.                                      na Tree Protection Act
       launch ERONET                        8. Cybergram: Started Haryana            2.   Making the procedure of getting
  3.   Planning to become first state           as Pilot for Digital Literacy of          tree cutting sanction permission
       in country to have all EPIC with         Minorities.                               online, wherever applicable.
       coloured photos.                     9. Rehabilitation Authority of Har-
                                                yana (RAH) set up to promote         PANCHAYATS/ RURAL DEVELOPMENT
  SOCIAL JUSTICE & EMPOWERMENT &                rehabilitation at home for the       DEPARTMENT
  SC/BC WELFARE                                 divyangs by including the activi-    1.   The Development and
  1.   Five major schemes of the                ty under NAREGA.                          Panchayats/ Rural Development
       department namely, Mukhya            10. Setting up of CSR Council to              Amendment in the Haryana
       Mantri Viwah Shagun Yojna,               channelize CSR funds into social          Panchayati Raj Act 1994 made
       B.R. Ambedkar Aawas Yojna, Dr.           sector welfare activities.                educational qualification com-
       Ambedkar Medhavi Chhattar            11. Developing Skill Development              pulsory for contesting election
       Yojna, Post Matric Scholarship           in care sector as a profession:           to the PRIs in Harayana
       Scheme for SC students and Post          Training of thousands of             2.   Village night camping pro-
       Matric Scholarship Scheme for            caregivers for Elderly, Disabled,         gramme for Redressal of public
       OBC students have been made              Drug Addicts, Children & Pallia-          grievances and community
       online and rest of the schemes           tive Care                                 participation
       are under process.                   12. International Upskilling &
  2.   Haryana Vimukt Ghumantu Jati             Placement of Caregivers abroad       TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING
       Vikas Board has been constitut-                                               DEPARTMENT
       ed and Chairman and members          REGISTRAR GENERAL OF BIRTH &             The following e-services were devel-
       have been appointed.                 DEATH                                    oped:-
  3.   Haryana Backward Classes Com-        In 2004-05 changed the Birth & Death     1. CLU approval (ONLINE SUB-
       mission has been constituted         Registration System from Police Sta-         MISSION MANDATORY)
       under the HBCC Act, 2016.            tion/CMO to Anganwadi-ANM-PHC            2. Extension of CLU permission
  4.   The Haryana Backward Class-          system with full computerization of          (ONLINE SUBMISSION MAN-
       es (Reservation in Services          old records.                                 DATORY)
       and Admission in Educational                                                  3. Release of Bank Guarantee
       Institutions Act, 2016) has been     PRINTING STATIONERY                          (ONLINE SUBMISSION MAN-
       enacted.                             Introduced Govt e-Marketing portal:          DATORY)
  5.   A committee under the Chair-         Encouraged deptts to buy from GEM        4. Dealing of Extension of Time
       manship of Sh. Anil Kumar IAS        directly.                                    of Community Sites (ONLINE
       was reconstituted to assess/                                                      SUBMISSION MANDATORY)
       examine the backwardness and         FOREST DEPTT                             5. Compliance of Rule 24,26, 27
       inadequacy of representation         1.   Denotifying of strip plantations        and 28 (ONLINE SUBMISSION
       of SCs in the State Government            and ensuring protection of trees        MANDATORY)
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                                                                                           not only to utilise full potential
                                                                                           of land pockets along with MRTS
                                                                                           corridors but also to generate
                                                                                           the resources to part finance the
                                                                                           hugely capital intensive metro
                                                                                           projects.

                                                                                      WOMEN & CHILD DEVELOPMENT
                                                                            20. Ef-   DEPARTMENT
                                                                    forts have been   1.   Aadhaar enrolment of children
                                                                  made to simplify         between 0-6 years age group
                                                               the CLU procedure      2.   To provide integrated support/
                                                             and other permis-             assistance to women affected by
                                                          sions. District Level            violence sanctioning of One Stop
                                                       Clearance Committee                 Centre for women “Sakhi” in
                                                   headed by Deputy Commis-                seven Districts
                                                sioners have been empowered
                                                to decide the cases of grant of       HARYANA FOREST DEPARTMENT
                                                industrial CLU having invest-         1.   Development of “Agro forestry-
                                                ment of less than Rs. 10.00 crore          Clonal and Non-Clonal” started
                           6. E-payment         or area less than one acre within          to increase the forest cover.
                      (ONLINE SUB-              conforming industrial use.            2.   In waterlogged areas of the state
          MISSION MANDATORY)              21.   This committee has also been               Bio-Drainage Plantations have
7.    Grant of Licence                          delegated the powers to approve            been undertaken.
8.    Renewal of Licence                        the building plans, issuance of       3.   Har Ghar Haryali campaign
9.    Completion Certificate                    occupation/completion certifi-             launched in the state in 2015-16,
10.   NOC under Urban Area Act                  cate, issuance of license of brick         where grafted fruit plants were
11.   Occupation Certificate                    kiln, charcoal kiln and store              planted in 2016-17. As many as 26
12.   Building Plan approval                    crushers.                                  lakh such plants of indigenous
13.   Revalidation of Building Plans      22.   Self-certification of approval of          species have been planted till
14.   Approval of Service Plan esti-            building plans and occupation              Nov. 2017.
      mate                                      of building in case of industrial     4.   Regulation of Wood Based
15.   Licence for Brick Kiln                    plots has also been allowed.               Industries: To encourage Agro
16.   Third Party transfer of commu-      23.   Integrated Industrial Licensing            Forestry and development of
      nity Sites.                               Policy has been approved to                Wood Based Industry, the latter
17.   Transparency in grant of NOCs             focus on providing new options             have been made license-free in
      under section 7A of Urban Are-            to boost the manufacturing in              the State.
      as Act, 1975 has been ensured by          the State and introduce cluster       5.   Forest Dept. has launched two
      uploading all the data regarding          development approach. One                  citizen-friendly e-services:
      the land notified under section           of the option is “Plug and Play            “Forest NOC” and“Permission
      7A on the website of the depart-          Models” which is to be operated            for tree felling”.
      ment and also by integrating              on lease hold basis on a part of      6.   Use of advanced GIS technology
      this information with Haryana             such colonies to help the small            in Forest dept.: GIS unit was set
      Land Record Information Sys-              and medium enterprises who                 up at Panchkula to collect spatial
      tem (HALRIS) of the Revenue               do not want to go through the              data of forest assets, resources
      Department for convenience of             process of land acquisition and            and forestry interventions for
      the general public and sub-reg-           building factories.                        the development of a GIS based
      istrars                             24.   Flexibility in the residential and         Decision Support Systems (DSS)
18.   It has also been made mandatory           commercial colony development              for effective management of
      that all District Town Planners           has been provided in the New               forest and wildlife areas.
      would be required to issue the            Integrated Licensing Policy           7.   For making procurement in the
      NOCs, if required, only through           depending upon the require-                department efficient, orders are
      online mode so that the physical          ment/ demand at the location.              now placed on GeM portal.
      contact of the DTP offices and            The minimum area norms have
      the general public is eliminated.         also been drastically reduced to      FISHERIES
19.   All the information regarding             unblock the land potential for        Haryana is the first land locked State
      pending licenses and CLU appli-           development. Similarly, Transit       in the country to utilize inland un-
      cations have been hosted on the           Oriented Development Policy           derground saline water for culture of
      website of the TCP department.            has been completely overhauled        white shrimp Letopeneus vannamei.=
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