Haryana Chief Minister, Mr. Manohar Lal directed all the Deputy Commissioners of the State to complete the work for the registration of eligible families under the “Mukhyamantri Parivar Samridhi Yojna” by March 15, 2020, so that the final installment of Rs 2000 could also be deposited into the bank accounts of beneficiaries by March 31, 2020. The process for the payment of the first two installments of Rs 2000 each (Rs 4000) under the scheme has already been started from February 7 this year.
Mr. Manohar Lal was presiding over the meeting with all the Divisional Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners and Municipal Commissioners of the State to review the progress of various schemes here today.
Out of the 15 lakh eligible families, 2.15 lakh families have so far been registered in the State under the Mukhyamantri Parivar Samridhi Yojna. He directed that besides monitoring the registration of data in the concerned Common Service Centres (CSCs) on regular basis, the DCs should also organize special camps in villages as well in wards in towns so as to enable maximum number of beneficiaries to register themselves. Under this scheme, annual financial assistance of Rs 6000 would be provided to those families in the State whose annual income is upto Rs 1.80 lakh and land holding is less than 5 acres so that premium of various welfare schemes of the Central Government, pension scheme and crop insurance could be paid automatically from the bank accounts of the needy families. It was also informed that data of three lakh families have so far been registered under the Parviar Pehchaan Patra.
While reviewing the “Meri Fasal Mera Byora” scheme, the Chief Minister said that as this year, payment for the wheat crop is to be made with the same module as done in the case of mustard and bajra, the farmers should be encouraged to make registration on the Meri Fasal Mera Byora Portal so that they don’t face any difficulty in selling their produce in the mandis of the State. He stated that the Government is committed to procure all crops at MSP. He directed the DCs to put their acts together to achieve 75 per cent target for the registration of farmers at the portal under wheat crop by February 28, 2020. He directed that complete detail of the farmers land and crop sown be registered on the portal. It was informed that SMS have been sent to 7 to 8 lakh farmers of the State asking them to make their registration on the portal. It was informed that 7.26 lakh farmers have so far been registered under this scheme for 51.56% of total cultivable area. It was also informed that incentive at the rate of Rs 10 per acre has been provided to 4.50 lakh farmers. Under this scheme, payment of Rs 10 per acre is directly deposited in the bank accounts of those farmers who make their registered under this scheme.
Reviewing the Implementation of Survey of India Project: “Ending Lal Dora”, he directed the DCs to ensure that the survey work of 75 villages of 15 districts (five villages in each district) be completed by March 5, 2020. He said that village Sirsi of district Karnal has already been declared free from Lal Dora thus ending the age-old system continued since the British days. He said that besides the villages, it has also been decided to the conduct survey of Karnal, Jind and Sonipat cities. He directed that survey work of district as well state boundaries should also be conducted simultaneously by using additional drones. It was informed that 8 villages could be surveyed in a day by using a single drone.
The Chief Minister directed them to minimize the gap in service delivery by making large scale use of Information Technology so that benefit of various schemes of the Centre and State Government reach to the grass-root level. He said that the state Government has decided to observe the year 2020 as Sushashan Sankalp Varsh under which various new initiatives would be taken to bring revolutionary changes in the system of service delivery. He said that our aim is to ensure that people need not to make frequent round of government offices, instead the government reaches to their door step for the delivery of citizen centric services.
He said that the State Government has constituted Inter District Coucil (IDC) to ensure active participation of PRIs in the development process of the State through devolution of funds. He said that in the meeting of IDC held recently at Panchkula; Zila Parishads have been asked to send their budget estamates to the State for approval so that they could carry out development works at their own level. He said that to further strengthen the Zila Parishads, independent CEOs have been appointed.
The Chief Minister said that separate Commissioner Urban Local Bodies would be appointed on the pattern of CEO Zila Parishads. He said that it has also been decided that XEN Panchayati Raj would now act under the Zila Parishads. He also asked the DCs to suggest works which could be transferred from them to Additional Deputy Commissioners so that the DCs could discharge their duties of monitoring and supervision of district more efficiently.
On this occasion , he also reviwed other schemes namely Jal Jiwan Scheme, Drug-Free Haryana and Solid Waste Management and gave necessary directions to the officers.
Among those present in the meeting included Chief Secretary Mrs Keshni Anand Arora, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mr Rajesh Khullar, Additional Chief Secretaries and Principal Secretaries of various departments, Divisional Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners and Municipal Commissioners of the State.
