Directing the Departments to implement his announcements made during 2018 pertaining to various developments works at the earliest, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Wednesday said that the Department Secretaries should personally review the progress of the works once in every week.
The Ministers have also been asked to hold similar review meetings to see the progress of works related to their departments.
“If required, he himself would review the Chief Ministers’ announcements of major departments,” said Manohar Lal while presiding over the review meeting of major departments here. Finance Minister, Capt. Abhimanyu was also present in the meeting.
The Chief Minister said that in those cases where the progress on the his announcements is slow due to non-availability of land, the department concerned should put up their request on e-bhoomi portal, an online portal for the sale and purchase of land.
He would soon hold a meeting of Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) to further streamline this portal so that land for the development projects could be made available at the earliest, Manohar Lal said.
He asked the departments to prepare a list of the development works which have been stalled due to non-availability of the required land.
Earlier, he also reviewed the receipts and expenditure of major departments.
He said that budget is pivot of all activities and asked the departments to make optimum utilization of funds.
The departments which he reviewed included Irrigation and Water Resources, Public Health and Engineering, Urban Local Bodies, Health, Education, Women and Child, Medical Education and Research, Skill Development and Industrial Training, Technical Education, New and Renewable Energy, Industries and Commerce and Animal Husbandry.
During the meeting, it was informed that this year Finance Department would present the Revised Estimates (RE) for 2018-19 in the month of December 2018 instead of March 2019 to enable the departments to utilize the allocated funds in a more effective manner during the current fiscal itself.
Keeping this in view, all the departments have been asked to furnish the requisite information regarding RE 2018-19 within one week. As per the earlier practice, RE of the budget are finalized every year during the month of February or March.
It was also informed that to keep a check on the parking of funds in different banks accounts, data of unspent amount of different departments is being collected with the help of about 1000 Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs).
During the budget address for the Financial Year 2018-19, it was mentioned that all the government departments would have to keep a single bank account to avoid parking of funds.
The Chief Minister was apprized that a dashboard of banks is also being prepared which would provide information about the name of bank branch and number of bank accounts being operated by the departments. There are 4,827 bank branches in the state.