Haryana has been reckoned among the fastest-growing states of India up to the year 2017, based on three key macroeconomic parameters including growth, inflation and fiscal health, and has done exceedingly well on Goods and Service Tax (GST) compliance front. This was stated by the Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki, while addressing the Haryana Assembly on the opening day of the Budget session on Monday.

Citing CRISIL report titled ‘States of growth’, he said that according to advance estimates, the per capita income of Haryana in real terms in 2017-18 was Rs 1,54,587 as compared to Rs 1,45,163 in 2016-17, thereby registering a growth of 6.5 per cent. At current prices, the per capita income of Haryana in 2017-18 was Rs 1,96,982, he added.

He said, “Haryana government is committed for the creation and up-gradation of Urban Infrastructure in the state. The Haryana Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Rules, 2017 have been published and two Real Estates Regulatory Authorities, one each at Panchkula and Gurugram, have been established to protect the interests of consumers in the Real Estate Sector and to establish an adjudicating mechanism for speedy dispute redressal. The Cooperative Election Authority would be set up in the state for superintendence, direction and control of the election process in the co-operative organisations.”

He said that the Haryana government has come out with a scheme guaranteeing the farmers cultivating potato, onion, tomato and cauliflower that they would never ever incur any loss whatever be the selling price for their produce.

Moreover, the state government was giving final touches to a comprehensive State Action Plan on Sexual and Gender Based Violence to address all major components of crime afflicting women and children in the state, he added.
Solanki also lauded the state government on several accounts for registering impressive landmarks in several spheres of the socio-economic development and nation-building which have earned the state national acclaim and recognition.

He said, “Haryana is the only state of India, which is kerosene-free, where no member of any Panchayati Raj Institution is uneducated or a defaulter of a bank loan or electricity bill, which assures 100 hours of paid work to educated unemployed youth and guarantees that no farmer will ever incur any loss if he grows potato, onion, tomato or cauliflower, whatever be the selling price for his produce.”

Besides, Haryana has won national acclaim for its efforts to curb the evil practice of female foeticide and remove the blemish of open defecation. The government has achieved notable success in implementation of the ‘BetiBachaoBetiPadhao’ programme and registered a quantum jump in sex ratio at birth to the highest ever level of 914 in December 2017 as compared to 833 in 2011 and 871 in December, 2014, he said.

The Governor said Haryana aimed to become the first state of the country to realise the target set by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to double the income of the farmers before 2022. Water has successfully been taken to the parched fields of hard working farmers of southern Haryana at over 300 tails of almost all minors and distributaries after a long and dry span of over 30 year.

The concerted efforts made by the government have resulted in a favourable verdict from the Supreme Court of India on the Presidential Reference, and since then it is vigorously pursuing the matter for initiation of the long pending construction work on the remaining portion of the Satluj Yamuna Link Canal, he added.

Regarding making things easy for the people, Solanki said currently, 106 services were being delivered on the Simple All Inclusive Realtime Action Oriented Long-lasting (SARAL) platform, a unified platform to provide citizen services at one place. Come April 14, 2018, the birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar, and all the 387 citizen-centric services notified under the Right to Services Act and schemes pertaining to 31 departments would be launched on the SARAL portal.