Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Sunday said the State Government would open village secretariat in every village so that people can take the benefit of Government schemes at their doorstep. Inaugurating the first such village secretariat at Haibatpur in district Jind, he said that this was the first step in the direction of setting up this kind of an administrative body in every village of the State.
The Chief Minister said all facilities would be made available for the people at this type of secretariat so that they don’t have to visit district headquarters to settle their issues and take benefits of Government schemes. He said that the village secretariat has been built on 8,500 sq. feet area at the cost of Rs48 lakh. Manohar lal said that the secretariat has 17 rooms with all modern amenities. This village secretariat has setup yoga and vyayamshala, Office of sarpanch, patwari and village secretary, Kisan Sewa Kendra, post office,
health centre, telephone exchange, aanganwadi centre, branches of different banks, ATM facility, election office, Intelligence department office, police help centre, Vita booth, five shops of computer and other technical products, cooperative, ration depot office and store and marriage hall. In this secretariat, common service centre has been setup where facility of issuance of all kind of government certificates like domicile, caste certificate etc. On the occasion BJP State President Shubhash Barala, Agriculture Minister OP Dhankar, Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma, MP Ramesh Kaushik and MlA Jasbir Deswal and Deputy Commissioner Ajit Balaji Joshi were also present.