On the last day of its Budget Session, Haryana Assembly on Tuesday passed the Budget and 16 Bills, including those dealing with timely delivery of services and protection of street vendors.
Before the House was adjourned sine die at the end of the session, the House passed the Haryana Right to Service Bill, 2014, to ensure delivery of services to eligible persons within fixed time limits. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala told the House that timely delivery of services is the cornerstone of good governance. The Bill states that any violation of the time limit, which is to be specified later for each service, in providing a service would be treated as a grievance with a multi-tier mechanism being set up for time-bound grievance redressal.
The State Government will constitute the Haryana Right to Service Commission, on whose recommendation the State Government will notify the services and the time limits for their delivery. The Assembly also passed the Haryana Municipal Street Vendors (Protection of livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill, 2014.
It will allow the State Government to regulate street vending and protect the interests of street vendors by providing them identity cards and protecting them from harassment by officials. As per the Haryana Management of Civic Amenities and Infrastructure Deficient Municipal Areas (Special Provisions) Amendment Bill, 2014, the cut-off date for notifying civic amenities and infrastructure deficient areas has been changed from June 30, 2009, to January 1, 2014. The Bill aims at providing essential civic amenities and infrastructure in municipal areas lacking such facilities.
BJP legislature ANIl VIJ SUSPENDED
Haryana Assembly reprimanded and suspended BJP MlA Anil Vij for his remarks against Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal during his speech on appropriation bill in the Assembly. He raised the question that Chief Minister of the State leaking out through his announcements out of the Assembly even before passing the State Budget. He asked whether, Chief Minister is supreme or the House. In between education minister started responding on this issue. During this, Vij made remarks against Bhukkal. This statement brought uproar in the House and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala, Cabinet Minister Kiran Chaudhry and Bhukkal herself asked Vij to apologies and take back his remarks back, but Vij was adamant. He was suspended.
Haryana to procure gram at higher MSP
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that the State Government will procure chana (gram) at an increased Minimum Support Price (MSP) of Rs 3,100 per quintal from earlier Rs 3,000 per quintal for the upcoming procurement season. Hooda made this announcement when an issue concerning implementation of recommendations of Swaminathan Commission report, which has favoured remunerative crop returns, was raised by Opposition INlD MlA Ashok Arora, during concluding day of the Budget Session of the State Assembly.
Haryana govt concerned over depleting water table
A number of measures have been taken for checking the over-exploitation of groundwater in Haryana, the State Government informed the Assembly. Expressing concern over the fast depleting water table in the State, Agriculture Minister Paramvir Singh said efforts are being made for the conservation of the precious resource. Replying to calling attention motion moved by Congress MlA Sampat Singh on the concluding day of the Budget session, Paramvir said that measures have been taken by various departments for checking the over-exploitation of groundwater in Haryana.