In a bid to provide transparent and more responsive administration to the people, the Haryana Government on Monday decided to re-organise the administrative units in the State.
While the number of divisions has been increased from four to six, the number of Police Ranges have been increased from four to five in the state.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal while addressing mediapersons here said, “Now, the state will have six divisions, five Police Ranges and three Police Commissionerates.”
He said that new divisions of Karnal and Faridabad have been made. The Karnal division will have the districts of Karnal, Panipat and Kaithal. Similarly, the new division of Faridabad will include the districts of Nuh, Palwal and Faridabad.
The Ambala division will now have districts of Ambala, Yamunanagar, Panchkula and Kurukshetra. Gurgaon division would include districts of Gurugram, Mahendragarh and Rewari, Hisar division will have Hisar, Fatehabad, Sirsa and Jind. The Rohtak division would include districts of Rohtak, Jhajjar, Sonepat, Dadri and Bhiwani, said the Chief Minister.
Giving details of Police Ranges, he said that new Ambala Police Range will cover the districts of Ambala, Yamunanagar and Kurukshetra. The existing Karnal Range will include the districts of Karnal, Panipat and Kaithal.
He said that the existing Police Commissionerate of Faridabad, Gurgaon and Panchkula would remain as such.
The Chief Minister also announced that cooperative banks in the state would be made online by January 31 so as to facilitate the people.On Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) Scheme, he said that 67 schemes have been identified to be implemented through DBT by March end.
Governance Reform Authority
After hiring 22 Good Governance Associates last year to usher in an era of change with good governance, Haryana Government has announced constitution of Governance Reform Authority (HGRA). The Chief Minister said that the decision to constitute the HGRA has been taken to simplify very old rules and procedures. This Authority would be headed by the Director of Institute of Development and Communication, Chandigarh, Dr Pramod Kumar. The HGRA would not submit its report in lump sum, but every month and the government would promptly act on its report, said he.
CM to visit villages
To celebrate golden jubilee of Haryana, the Chief Minister will visit those 50 villages in the state where neither any Chief Minister nor Minister or officer of the level of sub divisional magistrate have ever visited.
During his visit to the 50 identified villages, he would interact with the people to understand their problems and ensure the development of the village and redressal of the grievances of the people. Manohar lal has already been to all the 90 assembly constituencies of the state.
1200 announcements completed
The Chief Minister claimed that out of the 3,500 announcements made by him so far, work on 1,200 of these announcements has either been completed or is in progress. On delay in implementation of the announcements, he said that concerned officers have been directed to ensure beginning of work for these announcements within next three months. He added that during the 10-year rule of the previous regime of the Congress rule, 6,300 announcements were made by them and about 900 of these announcements were non-feasible. As compared to it, he only 42 of the announcements made by him were non-feasible, he said.
Irregularities in postings
On irregularities in recruitment of D category posts in Fisheries Department, he said that such recruitments are made at the level of Director by constituting committees. As per the information, these recruitments in the Department have been cancelled, said he, adding that a system would be evolved to make fair the recruitment to D category posts.
Notably, finding apparent irregularities in the selection process, the Punjab and Haryana High Court had ordered that the record of the selection process be sealed and had also restrained those selected from joining the Department. After introducing teachers’ transfers policy, the State Government is also considering to bring such transfer policy in other departments also, he added.
Wi-Fi services
While Wi-Fi services have been provided in 100 villages of the state, the network will be further expanded. The Government has planned to introduce Wi-Fi service at public places and it would soon be introduced in Haryana Civil Secretariat.