Haryana to observe 2017 as 'Garib Kalyan Varsh'

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today said that the state government has decided to observe 2017 as the "Garib Kalyan Varsh", with a host of schemes to be rolled out next year for the poor.
The state government would come out with a number of schemes for the welfare of the poor sections of the society, Khattar told reporters here.
He said emphasis would also be laid on generating maximum employment opportunities for the youth.
Khattar, who completed two years in office today, said the outgoing year was dedicated to Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya and coincided with the Golden Jubilee formation year of the state, carved out of Punjab in 1966.

He said that he had made about 2,000 announcements during his two-year tenure for the welfare of different sections of the society.
"Out of these, 1,200 announcements have either been completed or work on them is in progress," he added.

The work on remaining the 800 announcements is also in progress and the would be completed next year, Khattar said.
He claimed that he has provided good governance while making efforts to ensure transparency. Also, efforts have been made to streamline the systems which were creating problems for the people.
Khattar also directed the police to open legal aid clinics

in all districts to educate the people about legal procedures and provide necessary assistance.
He also stressed the need to conduct awareness camps at 8,500 places across the State to educate people about legal aid and processes.
Emphasising on the need to reform the system so that the people do not feel oppressed by the law, Khattar said that police personnel and staff manning these desks and clinics should be provided soft skill training to sensitise them, the release said.
The Chief Minister also directed the officers concerned to prepare plan for promoting Aadhaar-enabled payment system in the State, besides directing Information, Public Relations and Languages Department to implement state-wide mass awareness campaign for promoting cashless transactions.

He also directed the Finance Department to prepare plan for providing more incentives for cashless transactions. As many as 41 new services have been identified for addition to those already being provided by the Community Service Centres, and fee for 42 services would be revised to make the Atal Seva Kendras more economically-viable.
It was also decided that revised fee and standard operating procedures would be implemented for all Registering and Licensing Authorities (RLAs) and Regional Transport Authorities in the State from April 1, it said.
Automated fitness centres for vehicles would be set up in a cluster-wise manner. A model centre has already been established at Rohtak, and this would soon be inaugurated by the Chief Minister. Facilitation desks would also be set up at e-Disha centres and single window would be created for all payments.

Having the standardised action taken report (ATR) format for submitting complaints on the CM's Window, requests for clarifications had dropped by 15 per cent. Since the launch of 47 CM Windows at sub-division level, 5,000 complaints have so far been received, of which 2,000 have been disposed.
As per the data analysis, the number of complaints disposed of within 60 days have increased to 60 per cent since weekly review meetings have started as compared to 30-40 per cent complaints disposed earlier, the release said.
As many as 88 per cent of complaints received overall in 2016 have so far been disposed. As many as six districts have disposed of 90 per cent or more complaints.

About 65 per cent of grievances have been received under 10 departments and 78 per cent of the complaints pertain to ten main issues, of which 50 per cent pertain to four issues namely delay in delivery of public services, allegations of corruption and malpractice, criminal quarrels, theft and threat, and deficiency in services, the release said.