Senior citizens in Haryana will soon be able to avail the facility of getting their ‘Senior Citizen Card’ issued at Gram Sachivalyas established in villages.
The Chief Minister Manohar lal announced this on Sunday while addressing the gram panchayat of village Rajokheri during ‘Gram Sachivalya Divas Samaroh’ in Ambala. He also directed the officers concerned to start this facility at the earliest and also held discussions regarding various issues with the villagers.
He said that Gram Sachivalyas had so far been set up in 1,000 out of 6,500 villages. Such sachivalayas would also be established in the remaining villages in a planned manner, said he. The Chief Minister earlier enquired about the facilities being availed by villagers in Gram Sachivalayas and said that about 125 services pertaining to various departments were now being provided under one roof. This would help in saving precious time, money and energy of villagers as they need not go to nearby town to avail these facilities, he added.
Referring to the ‘Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao’ programme, the Chief Minister said that district Ambala had achieved the distinction of having sex ratio of 1,014 girls per 1,000 boys. He also congratulated the people for supplementing the efforts of the government in this direction. Manohar lal also urged the villagers to make the entire village open defecation free. During the meeting, he also interacted with the villagers regarding issues of public distribution system, social security pension, lPG connection to every household, employment, sale of farmers’ produce in mandis and healthcare.