All decisions of the Congress Government in Haryana taken after the lok Sabha elections will be under scrutiny of the BJP Government led by Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar.
Bhupinder Singh Hooda took several populist decisions after lok Sabha election results which is expected to bleed the exchequer heavily. These were taken to woo the electorate ahead of the Assembly polls.
Addressing his first news conference after his first Cabinet meeting on Monday, Khattar said all ongoing recruitment would be stopped at once. “The Haryana Government would review all the announcements and decisions pertaining to appointments or recruitments made after May 16 by the previous Government,” he said
The new Chief Minister said “after proper review, those decisions found to be in public interest would be continued and where any discrepancies are found, the decision would be taken as per law”.
He said the Cabinet also decided to stop all ongoing recruitment with immediate effect. “All cases of re-employment made during the regime of the previous Government would be re-examined. I have asked to prepare a list of such re-employment so as to take further action in the next Cabinet meeting,” Khattar said.
However, he clarified that reviewing the decisions of the Hooda Government did not mean that the new Government was rejecting those. Hooda Government gave sops to all sections, including Government staff, senior citizens, women, youth and others after May 16 when Congress was routed in the lok Sabha polls. Most of these sops were announced before the Model Code of Conduct for the Assembly election came into force in September.
Khattar said the implementation of enhanced old age allowance and pay scales for Government employees on the Punjab pattern would be implemented if found suitable after the review. “Whatever is found suitable would be implemented and the others would be cancelled,” he said.