Parivartan scheme launched in Haryana

The Haryana government today launched Parivartan, a scheme designed to address 10 issues, including cleanliness and pollution, in 46 developmental blocks of the state.
The scheme was launched by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and 46 top officials of the state, including those from the IAS, IFS and IPS cadres, have been allotted one block each, an official release said.
The 10 issues include facilitation of financing, making agriculture profitable and sustainable, improving health services, implementing Swachh Bharat, decongesting market areas, engaging the youth, checking air pollution, ensuring availability of identity-related services, effective policing, and ensuring road order and conduct.

The 46 officers will undertake works in the 10 selected common fields and one field of their choice, Khattar said.
The chief minister said that for each of the 10 fields, there are three to seven parameters on which the performance of the officers would be assessed.
"Some of these parameters include making a 10 km-long stretches accident free, one town or mahagram stray cattle free, ensuring delivery of caste certificates to all school students and ensuring charge sheets are filed in all FIRs of heinous crime," Khattar said in the release.

He said that a maximum of 39 marks would be available for 38 parameters covering these 10 fields and scoring would be done by the officers.

A maximum of four marks has been kept for 'Any Field of Officers Choice' and another seven marks would be given on the basis of social audit by the Haryana Governance Reforms Authority (HGRA), the chief minister said.
Khattar said the state has a strong work force of about 3 lakh employees and directed administrative secretaries to utilise their services to ensure benefits of government schemes and programmes reach people of these 46 blocks, which comprise over one-third of the state's total area.
This would not only help in achieving the objective of the government but also provide practical training to employees, and lead to raising of a strong trained workforce in the state, he added.

He directed the the secretaries to personally visit the blocks allocated to them at least once and apprise the block and district officers about the scheme.
The review of the experience of the officers would be done on April 21, Civil Service Day, Khattar said.
On the three-day Chintan Shivar (brainstorming session) organised at Timber Trail, Parwanoo, Himachal Pradesh, from December 15 to December 17, the chief minister described it as a unique experiment aimed at the welfare of people of the state.
He said in the last three years, the state government had taken various steps for providing good governance in the state.

"Under the Ek Aur Sudhar Programme, we are rolling out one reform every month after massive public consultations. In the same series, the state government has constituted the Ponds Management Authority and the Kisan Kalyan Pradhikaran.
"For the next month, the government has invited suggestions form the public on Antyodya to ensure benefits of various governments schemes and programmes reach beneficiaries," Khattar said.