Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday directed officers to complete all the work required for education and drinking water in Mewat region on a priority basis. Besides this, he also issued directions to hand over eight Mewat model schools being run under Mewat Development Authority to the Education Department to ensure that education quality in the area can be further improved.
Shortage of teachers in the Mewat district should be resolved on priority basis, he said.
Presiding over the 30th meeting of Mewat Development Board here in which Deputy Chief Minister, Dushyant Chautala and Scheduled Caste and Backward Classes Welfare Minister, Banwari Lal and MLAs of Nuh district were also present in the meeting, the CM said that till the recruitment of regular teachers in Mewat cadre is completed, registration of retired teachers as well as educated youth on Saksham portal should be done and they should be engaged for teaching work.
While directing the officers of the Education and Health Department, Khattar said work which the department can do at their levels should not be included in the agenda of the Mewat Development Board.
He directed that along with the Mewat Development Board’s budget the maximum share of State budget received under the Jal Jeevan Mission should be spent in Mewat district. Besides this, the Chief Minister has directed the officers concerned to upgrade educational institutions through mapping so that the Mewat youth can be motivated towards higher education. He further directed that the girls’ hostel in Khanpur valley should be re-opened so that the drop-out rate of girls there can be reduced.
Khattar said that in the five Hospitality Management Institutes opened in the state, nominal fees should be charged from the students coming from Mewat district.
Besides this, education subsidies should be provided to them.
On renewal of driving licenses, the chief minister said the license of any person registered on the SARTHI portal should be renewed after complying with the condition of one month.
Regarding the license of heavy vehicles, he said completing three conditions would be made mandatory, which include that the applicant should be literate, should have a license of light vehicle and should have completed training in Haryana Roadways. He said that training for a license can be taken in any district.Chief Minister was informed that 100 sanitary napkins will be provided free of cost to the girl students studying in 332 Government Middle, High, Senior Secondary Schools, KGBVs, Mewat Model Schools and SHKM Government Medical College, Nalhar and General Hospital, Mandikhera, Nuh every year.
He said that the officers of Mewat Development Board should give their opinion about new schemes that can be started in Mewat area in the next one month so that additional development of the area can be done. Additional Chief Secretary and Financial Commissioner, Revenue and Disaster Management Department, Sanjeev Kaushal, gave a presentation on the agenda of the meeting.
Chief Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, D.S. Dhesi, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister V. Umashankar, Deputy Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Ashima Brar and Administrative Secretaries of various departments, Government and non-official members of the Mewat Development Board were also present in the meeting.