Reforms panel suggests revamping of tehsil set-up

The Haryana Administrative Reforms Commission has suggested large-scale administrative restructuring in the districts of the state.

The Haryana Administrative Reforms Commission has suggested large-scale administrative restructuring in the districts of the state.

These recommendations include revamping of the tehsil set-up, setting up monitoring committees on security, investigation, prosecution, and law and order. The Commission, constituted by the government eight months ago, is led by Karan Singh Dalal, its chairman. Dalal is the Congress MLA from Palwal.

The Commission presented a 258-page report to Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on reforms needed to ensure efficiency and transparency, ways to end delays and corruption, besides providing an effective grievances redressal mechanism. Dalal said reports on the functioning of various other departments, including police, elementary education, Panchayati Raj Institutions etc, will be submitted within the Commission’s two-year tenure, ending March 2010.

When asked about the implementation of the recommendations, Hooda said the government will wait till all the reports are submitted by the Commission. “We will undertake a thorough study of the recommendations, and give it practical shape,’’ he said.

The recommendations include restructuring of the district and tehsils set up, computerisation of land record, review of application forms of departments, setting up Unified Disaster Management Force, posting of senior IAS/IPS officers as heads of civil and police set ups, introduction of ‘no meeting-no inspection’ days, and abolition of district grievances and public relations committees.

On the issue of land acquisition, the Commission has recommended that the period for filing objections be increased to 60 days, from the present period of 30 days. It has recommended a separate tribunal to hear and decide the cases of exempting land from acquisition before the Section 6 declaration, and to introduce a new statutory preliminary declaration in the shape of Section 3 (A).

The Commission has also recommended setting up information kiosks on public-private partnership basis, district monitoring committees on security, investigation, prosecution and law and order, construction of old age homes, residential schools for the blind in all districts, and fixation of targets on quarterly basis by breaking the financial year into four quarters.