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The Times of India
The Times of India
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Manvir Saini | TNN

Haryana govt committed to uplift every family and raise economic level of last person standing in line: CM Manohar Lal Khattar

CHANDIGARH: Haryana government on Monday claimed to have prepared a comprehensive action plan under which education, health, all-round development and welfare of every citizen will be ensured with emphasis on security, self-respect and self-reliance.

For this, the data of citizens collected in the Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) has been divided age-wise into 5 categories and the responsibility of each category has been assigned to a department. Each department will keep a complete record of the benefits of all schemes and services according to age group, education, health and employment etc.

The chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar informed this while presiding over the review meeting regarding the PPP in Chandigarh. Administrative Secretaries of various departments were also present in the meeting.

Khattar said that the responsibility of children up to the age of 6 years has been entrusted to the Women and Child Development Department. The department will pay special attention to the elementary education and nutrition of these children. In addition, the department will also keep a track of every child whether that child stays at home, goes to anganwadi or school till the age of 6 years and ensure that he or she is getting the required nutritious food. He said that if children get good nutrition and education at the very beginning, then their foundation will be strong and they will move forward in a positive direction in life.

He directed the officers to prepare and implement an action plan soon for all these activities. Apart from this, he also directed to expedite the process of setting up creches for day care of children.

The chief minister said that school education is equally as important as elementary education. Therefore, with the vision that no child should be deprived of education, the responsibility of children in the age group of 6 years to 18 years has been entrusted to the School Education Department. The Department will keep special track of school dropouts along with providing education to every child, so that the drop out rate can be reduced.

The department will have the data of every child whether he is taking education in school or ITI or any other institute. He directed the officers to set up a special cell for tracking and to prepare SOPs. Similarly, the responsibility of children in the age group of 18 years to 24 years has been entrusted to the Higher Education Department and in the age group of 25 to 60 years to the Employment Department. These departments will lay emphasis on the employment of youth as well as their skill development.

The chief minister directed that a Grievance Redressal Cell should be set up at the district level under the leadership of Additional Deputy Commissioner to remove the difficulties faced by the citizens in the application of the PPP if the data is incorrect or changes are to be made in the data. It was informed in the meeting that soon a chatbot will be started on the Parivar Pehchan Patra portal, in which citizens will be able to have their grievances resolved. The chatbot will be available in Hindi, Punjabi and English languages.

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