The 22 senior bureaucrats in Haryana, who are assigned districts for monitoring purposes will be provided with a personal security officer (PSO) by Haryana Police to ensure their safety amid the ongoing farmers’ agitation against three central farm laws in the state.
The decision in this regard was taken after the bureaucrats raised the issue with the Chief Secretary Vijai Vardhan about the difficulty they face in travelling due to the farmers’ protest.
A letter was also issued from the office of the Chief Secretary to Home and Administration of Justice Department to direct the Director General of Police to provide PSOs to 22 senior officers who are assigned districts by the State Government.
The letter stated, “A number of Administrative Secretaries and some Heads of Departments have been assigned districts by the State Government for monitoring the infrastructure, e-governance projects, schemes funded by the Central or State Government, Covid-19 pandemic preparedness, law and order etc.
This involves visits to the districts as well as to the project sites at different places by the designated officers.”
“Many Administrative Secretaries / HoDs have informed about the difficulties they have faced in the discharge of the duties assigned to them in view of the long-drawn Kisan agitation which has resulted in road jams, picketing at tolls and agitation at various government offices in the district.
These senior officials while travelling to their assigned districts have to often negotiate such hot spots,” it said.”The matter has been duly considered by the State Government and it has been decided that those Administrative Secretaries / HoDs who have been assigned districts may be immediately provided a Personal Security Officer (PSO) by the Haryana Police to ensure their safety,” the letter added.
Apart from the Delhi-Haryana border, farmers are also sitting on dharnas at some places in the state protesting against the central farm laws.Notably, the State Government has assigned 22 districts of Haryana to Administrative Secretaries and Head of Departments for monitoring of schemes and law and order situation.
Additional Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal has been assigned Faridabad district, ACS Anurag Rastogi is assigned Gurugram and ACS Varinder Singh Kundu is assigned Rewari.
Similarly, Kaithal district is assigned to ACS PK Das, Bhiwani to ACS Alok Nigam, Karnal to ACS Devender Singh, Sonipat to ACS Amit Jha, Hisar to ACS Siddhi Nath Roy, Jhajjar to ACS Mahavir Singh, Palwal to ACS Sudhir Rajpal, Ambala to ACS Sumita Misra, Panchkula to Principal Secretary Anand Mohan Sharan, Mahendragarh to ACS Raja Sekhar Vindur, Nuh to Principal Secretary (PS) Ashok Khemka, Fatehabad to Principal Secretary Vineet Garg, Kurukshetra to PS G Anupama, Panipat to PS Apoorva Kumar Singh, Yamunanagar to PS AK Gupta, Sirsa to PS Vijayendra Kumar, Charkhi Dadri to PS D Suresh, Rohtak to Vikas Gupta and Jind to Vijay Singh Dahiya.