To prevent distress sale of land by farmers, Haryana Government on Thursday approved a policy to create a land bank for its departments, Boards and Corporations in the state.
Under this policy, the farmers can first submit their proposal to the State Government as a potential buyer and can also advise the government for selecting a site for the development project at a particular place.
The policy was approved during the state cabinet meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday.
Three committees namely, Land and Rate Scrutiny Committee, Land Bank Committee High Powered Land Bank Committee would be constituted for ensuring the successful implementation of the policy to create a land bank, said an official spokesman.
It is observed that landowners at times have to make distress sales of their land especially those living abroad due to slump in the market or as happened due to COVID-19 pandemic, the pressure of the middle man in the market among others reasons, he said.
The spokesman said that the State Government has also been experiencing a lot of difficulty in making land available to the various Departments to cater day to day needs especially in providing land for essential services that is waterworks, power sub-stations, colleges and other specialized institutions of higher learning including universities, medical colleges and other hospitals and polytechnics etc.
Under the policy, the unutilized land of various Government Departments and their entities that is Boards and Corporations shall be clubbed at one place under the Revenue and Disaster Management Department as a nodal Department.
To prevent distress sale of land by farmers, it shall be optional for the farmers to apply on the online portal of the Director Land Records to make an offer by giving complete details of the land including negotiable price of the same. Further, the Revenue Department shall keep it in the said land bank for present or future requirements of all the Departments of the Government and Boards and Corporation and shall transfer to them as per relevant rules including price thereof, if any, the spokesman said.
The cabinet also decided that the farmers will not have to pay full stamp duty for exchange of land. A proposal has been passed in the cabinet that farmers will be able to exchange cultivable agriculture land in the same revenue estate by paying a stamp duty of Rs 5,000 only.
HRY GOVT TO HAVE HUMAN RESOURCE DEPARTMENT FOR ITS EMPLOYEES
Haryana Government has decided to create a new Department namely Human Resources Department under Chief Secretary for more than 2.5 lakh state employees.
Apart from this, Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam Limited with equity share capital of Rs 2 crore would also be established in the state.
The state Cabinet which met under Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday approved a proposal in this regard. The new HR Department will look into the matters of recruitment, transfer, service record among other issues.
After the cabinet meet, the Chief Minister, while talking to the mediapersons said that a new Department namely Human Resources Department will be created with a view to ensure that standards and norms, as laid by HR Department are followed by all government Departments, in the recruitment, regulation of service conditions posting or transfers, deputation of personnel, ensure implementation of State Training Policy 2020, ensure unified administrative control over all the employees of Group A, B, C and D, including HCS, to ensure maintenance of Common Cadres through a single department, ensure maintenance of integrity of the public services and eradication of corruption and ensure transparency in recruitment through Common Eligibility Test. There were 42 agendas in the state cabinet meeting and 37 have been approved, he added.
Talking about Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam Limited, Khattar said that the Nigam would be established for deployment of manpower in Government Departments, Boards, Corporations, Statutory entities, State Universities and other agencies owned and controlled by the State Government.
At present, there are various challenges in the engagement of manpower by various government entities in the state including non-standardized engagement processes followed by various Government entities for engagement of services and manpower. There is lack of transparency while engaging manpower, exploitation of contractual manpower by private contractors or service providers by way of delayed payment, non-payment, or less payment of salary and benefits among other issues, he said.
He said that the objectives of the company is to carry on the business of deployment of skilled, semi - skilled and other manpower and arrange for continuous skill training, if required, to meet the needs of the job role in the government sector. An initial amount of Rs 2 crore will be sanctioned as equity share capital for establishment of the Nigam. Haryana Chief Secretary will be the chairperson of the Board of Directors of the company.
FIVE AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING POLICIES APPROVED
Addressing the housing needs of students, working women, labour and senior citizens in Haryana, the cabinet approved five Affordable Rental Housing Policies namely Policy for planned development of Retirement Housing, Affordable Rental Housing, Policy for planned Development of Student Rental Housing, Policy for planned Development of Medico Assisted Living Facilities and Policy for planned Development of working Women’s hostel. These five policies have been formulated through grant of CLU permission under Haryana Scheduled Roads and Controlled Areas Restriction of Unregulated Act, 1963 and through the grant of license under Act Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975.
GUEST TEACHERS INCLUDED IN TRANSFER POLICY
The State Government has decided to include guest teachers in the online teachers' transfer policy. Under the amendment, firstly the transfer drive of regular teachers will be conducted, after that guest teachers will be able to participate in the second phase of transfer drive. The teachers with disabilities will get special exemption in the transfer drive. People with disabilities appointed as clerical assistants and lab attendants will also get exemption. They will be given relaxation on the basis of percentage of disability during transfer drive.
ASSEMBLY SESSION FROM AUGUST 20
The Chief Minister said that the cabinet has given its recommendation to start the monsoon session of Haryana Vidhan Sabha from August 20. In this regard, permission will be taken from the Haryana Governor to start the session from August 20. He said that the duration of the Assembly Session would be decided in the meeting of the Business Advisory Committee.
82,000 NEW BPL CARDS WILL BE MADE, 75000 OMITTED
Khattar informed that so far 82,000 such families have been identified in the income verification survey of Parivar Pehchan Patra Yojana, whose annual income is less than Rs 1.8 lakh. BPL cards will be made for all of them. Apart from this, 75,000 such families have been identified during this survey, whose income is more than Rs 1.8 lakh and they were taking benefits of schemes made for BPL families. These were State Government employees and were also paying income tax. Their names have been deleted from the list of BPL families, he said. When asked whether the government would take any action against 75000 such people, the Chief Minister said that we will urge them to pay for the benefits they have taken so far but no action will be taken.