Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday directed all the Deputy Commissioners of the state to strictly implement the PNDT Act in the districts and encourage various voluntary organizations, social workers and pensioners of the districts to register themselves on the Samarpan portal.
The Chief Minister also directed the Deputy Commissioners to make foolproof security arrangements in the HTET examinations to be held on December 18 and 19.
Khattar was presiding over the 15th meeting of the Administrative Reforms Department here. The Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment OP Yadav, Minister of State for Women and Child Development Kamlesh Dhanda, Divisional Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners and other senior officers were present in the meeting.
The Chief Minister said that concrete steps should be taken to take the sex ratio in the state to 950. For this, he directed to strictly implement the PNDT Act, conduct raids and lodge cases under it.
He also directed the Deputy Commissioners to take the Haryana Teacher Eligibility Test to be held on December 18 and 19 as a challenge and personally take stock of its preparations.
Apart from imposing Section 144 at the examination centres, strict security arrangements should be ensured, he said.
Khattar also directed to arrange for government vehicles to deliver the question papers to the examination centres and ensure that adequate number of security personnel are deployed with them. He also asked to make alternate arrangements for traffic and to ensure the arrangement of traffic police so that the general public does not face any problem due to high vehicular movement during the examination days.
Apart from this, he also asked to keep the ambulance service and health service available in the districts during this period.
The Chief Minister further asked the Deputy Commissioners to work to encourage various voluntary organizations, social workers and pensioners of the districts as well as the people of the corporate world to register on the Samarpan portal.
He said that so far, 932 volunteers have registered on this portal. 29 categories of volunteers have been created on the portal to render services in various fields.
'Samparan' a voluntary programme has been started by the Haryana Government, under which people who are interested in social service can register themselves on this portal.
Khattar said that the Deputy Commissioners should prepare a list of pensioners of their respective districts and motivate the willing pensioners to devote their time for social service.
He also directed to accelerate the work of administering COVID-19 vaccination in the state.
It was informed during the meeting that so far, 91 percent people have been given the first dose and 52 percent people have been given the second dose under the COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
The Chief Minister also directed to work on the goal of registering cultivable land under Meri Fasal Mera Byora scheme at the earliest, and work on the plan to raise the income of families up to Rs. 1 lakh under Antyodaya Parivar Utthan Yojana.