Following the poor implementation of Chief Minister’s announcements related to new projects and scheme in the state, Haryana Government on Thursday sought report from the administrative secretaries on the announcements which has not been started yet.
The administrative secretaries have been asked to prepare list of those CM’s announcements of upto December 2015 on which work has not been started yet along with the reasons and submit the same within next three days. Haryana Chief Secretary DS Dhesi on Thursday also directed the administrative secretaries to accord highest priority to the CM announcements.
The directions were issued following the displeasure expressed by the Chief Minister Manohar lal over the slow implementation of the announcements made by him in the state. The Chief Minister has so far covered 88 out of total 90 assembly constituencies in the state and made as many as 3110 announcements concerning various development works.
Dhesi while convening a meeting of administrative secretaries, asked them to ensure timely execution of works under the CM’s announcement. He said that the announcement have been made only after assessing their feasibility with the concerned departments.
He directed them to hold meeting with the Heads of the Department concerned every month to review the status of CM’s announcement and ensure that the status report is uploaded between first and fifth of every month. Notably, out of the total of 2882 CM’s announcements till December 6, 1669 announcements related to 15 key departments are still pending. The departments included Public Works (B & R) with highest 277 announcements pending followed by 241 of Development & Panchayats, 223 of Urban local Bodies, 181 of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, 173 of Irrigation & Water Resources, 129 announcements of Sports & Youth Affairs, 81annoucements related to Education Department (school), 73 of Health Department among others, as per the government’s data.
Apart from this, about 780 projects are in progress in key15 departments with highest 164 projects related to Public Works (B & R). As far as implementation of the CM’s announcements is concerned, 250 projects of 15 departments have so far been commissioned in the state.
Dhesi said that a committee headed by Additional Chief Secretary, Revenue has been constituted with Additional Chief Secretary, Development and Panchayats, Principal Secretary, Urban local Bodies and Principal Secretary, Monitory and Coordination as its members to expedite the process of identification and making land available for implementation of CM’s announcement.