During 2023, the focus would be on increasing the number of doctors along with further strengthening the health infrastructure, Manohar Lal
Public opinion should also be included in the Annual Confidential Report of officers and employees
177 colonies of 8 districts will be regularized, announces Chief Minister
Chandigarh, December 25 2022
While taking his commitment of Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah, Sarve Santu Niramayah’, (may all become happy and free from illnesses) a step further, the Haryana Chief Minister today announced that the year 2023 would be Antodaya Arogya Varsh.
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While addressing a state-level function held on the occasion of good governance day at Panchkula, Sh. Manohar Lal said that for the past 8 years dedicated efforts have been made to realize Prime Minister’s, ‘Health for all vision’. Now moving ahead in this direction, during 2023, the focus would be on increasing the number of doctors along with further strengthening the health infrastructure. Besides this, the focus would be laid on promoting Yoga and Ayurveda, added Sh. Manohar Lal.
The Chief Minister said that in the Annual Confidential Report of the officers and employees, the opinion of the public should be included as to whether officers and employees are executing their works properly or not.
In a democracy, the public is paramount as the public elect the public representatives, so their opinion should also be taken regarding the efficiency and working of government machinery, he added.
The Chief Minister said that for the government and development work to be done properly and smoothly, there should be public participation through social audit. If the public monitors the development works, then definitely the quality of the works becomes better.
Sh. Manohar Lal said that due to the updation of the BPL list, the names of many people will be deleted because they have risen above the poverty line by geself-employmentoyment or other employment opportunities.
Thus all such beneficiaries should be proud that they are leaving their card benefits for someone who needs them the most, said the Chief Minister.
He said that government employees should have a sense of morality and for this special focus should be given to moral values in government offices because the public comes to government offices for their work, so treat them ethically.
177 colonies of 8 districts regularized
The Chief Minister announced that as many as 177 irregular colonies in 8 districts would be regularized. He said that two years back 845 such colonies were identified by the State Government. A temporary Residents Welfare Association was also constituted. A Law has been enacted for regularizing such colonies, added Sh. Manohar Lal.
Now Haryana will have 4 Police Commissionerates, announces Chief Minister
On this occasion, the Chief Minister announced that after Faridabad, Gurugram and Panchkula now Sonipat will also have Police Commissionerate. He further announced that a separate Police Enforcement Wing would be constituted with a separate staff. A separate ADGP, Enforcement post would be created for this.
The Chief Minister further announced that around 2500 vacant posts in IRB and the state police force would be filled from next year.The Chief Minister said that Good governance is SMART – Simple, Moral, Accountable Responsible, and Transparent and officers are expected to do their work dedicatedly to ensure that paperless and faceless delivery of citizen-centric services to the public.
“I do not limit good governance to just words and slogans, rather I would like to define good governance as a year-long journey aimed toward the upliftment of those at the bottom of the pyramid,” said Sh. Manohar Lal.
The Chief Minister said that it was in 2014, when Haryana has started the good governance celebrations with the launch of CM window and since then the state Government has brought radical system changes to ensure hassle free delivery of the public welfare schemes and services to the common man.
He said that to ensure transparency in the functioning of government, CM dashboard has already been set up to monitor the working of the government functionary. More IT reforms would be brought to achieve our aim of Digital Haryana, added Chief Minister.
The Chief Minister said that under the recently launched CHIRAYU yojana, so far registration of 80 lakh persons has been done. On the good governance day, around 8 lakh CHIRAYU cards would be distributed to the eligible benificaries, shared Sh. Manohar Lal.
Further 5800 benificraies have also aviailed the scheme benefits which amongs to Rs. 11 crores. Besides this, under Niryogi Haryana, medical checkups of around 80,000 beneficiaries will be done, said the Chief Minister.
On this occasion, the Chief Minister launched Automatic Ration Card Scheme, Free Passport Scheme, Online Fard (copy) Jamabandi, HPSC Demand Portal, Citizen Facilitation Center and Works Grievance Redressal System.
Earlier speaking on the occasion, Vidhan Sabha Speaker, Sh. Gian Chand Gupta said that there are many key points of good governance including maximum participation of the public is the real meaning of good governance and rule of law, consensus-oriented, decision-making, effective, efficient, and most importantly Accountability. He said that Haryana under the leadership of Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal has left no stone unturned to achieve all these key points. Transparency and representativeness also are integral parts of good governance, he added.
While welcoming the dignitaries at this state level function, the Chief Secretary, Sh. Sanjeev Kaushal said that good governance is about making the reach of citizen-centric services and benefits of public welfare schemes at the grass root levels. He also said that it is a great initiative that the departments doing exceptional work to realize Manohar Lal’s vision of Digital Haryana have been awarded by Chief Minister.
On this occasion, the Chief Minister also extended Christmas greetings to the people of the State.
On this occasion, the Chief Minister along with all the participants also listened to the Prime Minister’s ‘Maan ki Baat’ played during the programme.