Friday, March 10, 2017

12 bills passed in Haryana Vidhan Sabha

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 10
 Haryana Vidhan Sabha today passed 12 Bills including the Haryana Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, benefits and Services) Bill 2017, to provide for  effective, secure and accurate delivery of benefits, subsidies and services from the Consolidated Fund of Haryana to targeted beneficiaries and authenticating their identity through Aadhaar numbers.
          The other Bills passed today are The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Haryana Amendment) Bill 2017, The Haryana Appropriation (No.2) Bill 2017, The Haryana Development and Regulation of  Urban Areas (Amendment) Bill 2017, The Haryana Municipal (Amendment) Bill 2017, The Haryana Municipal Corporation  (Amendment) Bill, 2017, The Haryana Road Infrastructure Protection Bill 2017, The Haryana Private Universities (Amendment) Bill 2017, The Haryana Nurses and Nurse-Midwives Bill 2017, The Haryana Cattle Fairs (Amendment) Bill 2017, the Haryana Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Bill 2017 and The Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Haryana Amendment Bill 2017.
         In case of the Haryana Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, benefits and Services) Bill 201, it was felt necessary that the process of authentication, security, confidentiality and use of Aadhaar related information should be made statutory so as to facilitate the use of Aadhaar number for delivery of various benefits, subsidies and services the expenditure of which is incurred form the consolidated fund of the State.
          The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Haryana Amendment) Bill 2017 was passed to amend certain other provisions of the Act of 2013 so as to protect the overall public interest to serve the deprived sections and to avoid lapsing of acquisition in essential cases.
          The Haryana Appropriation (No.2) Bill 2017 was passed to authorise payment and appropriation of certain sums from and out of the Consolidated Fund of the State for the services during the financial year ending on March 31, 2018. This Bill authorises the State Government for payment and appropriation of Rs 1132663105517 out of the Consolidated Fund of the state for the year 2017-18. This amount would be required to defray several charges which would come in the course of payment during the financial year 2017-18.
          The Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas (Amendment) Bill 2017 was passed to ease out the procedure for registration of land within urban areas by substituting section 7A of the Act.  It was noticed that public is facing hardship in registration of land due to mandatory requirement for obtaining no objection certificate for registration of the land within urban areas notified under section 7A of the said Act of 1975.
          The Haryana Municipal (Amendment) Bill 2017 was passed to make provisions of giving proper opportunity of personal hearing to all the candidates before deciding the case of disqualification.
          The Haryana Municipal Corporation  (Amendment) Bill, 2017 was passed to make provisions of giving proper opportunity of personal hearing to all the candidates before deciding the case of disqualification  in section 8 (Disqualifications of members) and Section 9 (Election to the Corporation) of the Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994.
          The Haryana Road Infrastructure Protection Bill 2017 was passed to develop and implement a systematic approach towards better utilization and management of road infrastructure and enhancement of security. The Act will also check fraudulent activity and unauthorized access to the roads and provides safeguards to its infrastructure. It also aims to provide for the legal framework so that legal sanctity is accorded to authorizes for checking all types of intrusions and unauthorized access to roads.
          The Haryana Private Universities (Amendment) Bill 2017 was passed to amend the Haryana Private Universities Act, 2006. The Act will encourage the sponsoring bodies with experience of running educational institutions to come forward for setting up of Private Universities in Haryana. Requirement of minimum five acres of land in the Municipal Corporation was proposed   in the Act.
          The Haryana Nurses and Nurse-Midwives Bill 2017 was passed to provide for the constitution of the Haryana Nurses and Nurse-Midwives Council for the registration of nurses, nurse-midwives and for the registration of institutions imparting training and prescribing qualifications to such institutions in the state and for matter connected therewith or incidental thereto. The Act has been passed to achieve the objective of promotion, streamlining and regulation of nursing education and dealing with issues related to admission, curriculum, examination and registration process associated with the nursing education under single roof.
          The Haryana Cattle Fairs (Amendment) Bill 2017 was passed to amend the Haryana Cattle Fairs Act 1970. In case it is necessitated to organize the cattle fairs through a private agency, detail policy guidelines are required to be framed. The Bill sought to utilization of cattle fairs funds by various authorities and not only by Gram Panchayats, Panchayat Samitis and Zila Parishad.
          The Haryana Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Bill 2017 was passed to amend the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act 1994. For laying lines of public utilities that is water pipelines, sewerage, gas and electric cable underneath the passage of nallah vesting in the Gram Panchayat by the private companies or persons, the Bill sought to substitute sub-section (3) of section 24 so that user charges and the competent authority to grant such permission can be prescribed.
          The Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Haryana Amendment Bill 2017 was passed to insert sub-section (3) of section 5A in the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act 1961 for regularizing the gifts of lands in shamlat deh by the Gram Panchayats made to a department, Board of any agency of the state government without prior approval of the State government before April 4, 2007.
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