Says Govt working on family identity card & data would also be used

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Sunday said the National Register of Citizens (NRC) would be implemented in the State.

“In Haryana, we will implement NRC along the lines of Assam,” the Chief Minister said while talking to the mediapersons after meeting Justice (retired) HS Bhalla, former chairman of Haryana Human Rights Commission in Panchkula.

Manohar Lal, who is seeking his second term as the Chief Minister met several imminent personalities including Justice Bhalla, ex-Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba and Lt Gen (retired) Baljit Singh Jaiswal on Sunday.

He met them under his party’s Maha Sampark Abhiyan ahead of the State Assembly polls in October.

The Chief Minister said, “Justice Bhalla has taken up many assignments after his retirement. He is also working on NRC and will visit Assam soon. We will implement NRC in Haryana and have sought his support and suggestion.”

The State Government is working on a fast pace on family identity card and its data would also be used in the NRC, he added.

Manohar Lal had previously too supported NRC implementation across the country. Notably, the final NRC in Assam was released on August 31, leaving out 19 lakh people. Following this, several political parties had voiced their dissatisfaction with the final document.

Meanwhile, the Chief Minister also said the Haryana Government will look into the feasibility of setting up a Law Commission.

 “He (Justice Bhalla) suggested that a Law Commission should be set up in Haryana. We shall study it and examine this too. The Government will look into the feasibility of setting up of this commission and if people get benefitted with it, it will be set up,” the CM said.

He said social audit system would be implemented so that the audit of development works could be done by the intellectuals in the society, in which ex-servicemen, teachers, engineers or others having special achievement would be included. For this, in the coming time a separate Voluntary Department would also be formed, he said.

Manohar Lal said for the last five years he has worked with honesty and in a transparent manner by treating 2.5 crore population of the State as his family. “I have reached out to the people through Jan Ashirwad Yatra in all 90 Assemblies recently,” he added.