Haryana Government on Monday urged the Central Government to authorize the States to take decisions at their own level to resume the the industrial and economic activities in Green, Orange, and Red zones except containment zones.
The Central Government has already granted permission to resume these activities in a phased manner.
Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar raised these demands during the meeting presided over by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi with the Chief Ministers of all the states through video conferencing.
Khattar said in this hour of crisis, the amendments in labour laws should not become a matter of competition among the states. He assured the Prime Minister that all out efforts will be made to bring the GDP rate of Haryana in the second quarter of Financial Year- 2020-21 to the level of the second quarter of the Financial Year 2019-20
The Chief Minister said that Haryana has brought about many reforms and launched new schemes during this period, listing out those schemes. He informed that the State Government has issued distress ration tokens to about 3.73 lakh families who did not have any kind of ration card in order to enable them to get free ration. Similarly, about 13.4 lakh families were given the financial assistance of Rs 553 crore by direct transfer into their accounts.
The Chief Minister said that the State Government has taken forward the process of procurement of Rabi crops by maintaining the social distancing norms and till now about 66 lakh metric tonnes of wheat and mustard have been procured and about 15 lakh metric tonnes is further expected to be procured. He said that this will lead to crediting the accounts of farmers with Rs 22,000 crore.
The Chief Minister informed that about 24 lakh laborers work in about 35,000 factories in Haryana, out of which 14 lakh industrial workers have returned to work.