-SATISH HANDA

Talking to media persons, Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khatter said, over six years ago when BJP government came to power in Haryana state prepared an agenda to wipe out corruption completely and bring transparency in work in all government departments in the state. He said, now state government has decided to launch a cleanliness drive in nearly half dozen government departments including PWD, Urban Development Authority, Food & Supply,  Education, Agriculture, Panchayat and Health department conducting a thorough surgery after completion of work in three prominent government departments: Electricity,  Transport and  Revenue.

 CM said, after bringing electricity department in the state buried under losses and loans worth Rs 30000 crore now functioning in profits due to beneficial government policies to collect payment of outstanding bills from consumers since a long time, action against power thefts and control over line losses and the department was brought on a profitable track. Similarly Transport department as well as Revenue departments in the state shown good results after complete surgery in both sectors wiping out irregularities and corrupt practices in these departments with the appointment of DTOs and installation of cameras on the body of Haryana Roadways checking staff in Transport department.  Similarly, old system of registration of properties causing large number of corruption in revenue department as well developing unauthorized illegal residential colonies all over in the state has now been replaced with the new transparent system causing complete ban over large scale corruption prevailing in revenue department.  Government also took stern action against few corrupt officers in the department now earning handsome revenue for the government..CM said, ruling government officers studies shortcomings in revenue department for a year and observed that corrupt staff in tehsil offices in few districts in the state as well as land mafias and agents mushrooming in the department were flourishing due to corrupt practices and developing unauthorised residential colonies in the state robbing innocent people in the state willing to own their own house.

CM said, to have a ban over large number of overloaded commercial vehicles on the roads, 45 portable automatic weighing machines have been installed on all prominent roads in the state to have automatic checking the weight of an overloaded vehicle, besides also having installed automatic speed checking devices on the routes and those involved in rash driving will be fined heavily. He sais, on-line transfers in government departments in the state have been introduced to finish corruption in this regard in government departments having strength up to 300 employees. He further added that ruling government aims to provide all basis amenities to residents in the state available at their door for which family ‘Aadhar’ cards having complete detail of every member in the family being prepared in Haryana state will play an important role.