Haryana government has decided to appoint Nodal Officer (Litigation) in all the departments.
An official spokesperson said that the role and responsibilities of Nodal Officer (NO) would be to consider each and every petition or notice for demand of justice or representation and notice under Section 80 of Code of Civil Procedure (CPC) positively within a period of 30 days from the date of its receipt, and this 30 days period is fixed so that the action taken be concluded and reached to the employee or person who served legal notice.
He said that all legal notices, petitions, letters from office of Advocate General (AG), Haryana regarding legal matters would be sent to the concerned Nodal Officer who would be responsible for bringing it to the notice of concerned Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Financial Commissioner (FC) or Head of the Department (HoD) for further necessary action to get issued sanction for defence of cases and filing of appeals, writ petitions, civil revisions, RSA, Arbitration cases or any other case by and on behalf of the State Government directly interact with the office of LR or Administrative Secretaries to avoid the procedural delay, which are now being regarded as one of the major reasons of delay in state cases.
On receipt of orders from the courts by Nodal Officer or the learned AG Officer, the Nodal Officer would ensure that necessary entries are made in Litigation Management System (LMS) and papers are sent to officer concerned for filing reply, implementation or processing the papers promptly and for sending him a response for uploading on LMS, he added.
He further said that the Nodal Officer must indicate the time lines by which the action has to be taken and in case of inaction, he must take up the matter with officer concerned and ACS, FC or HoD.
The role and responsibilities of Nodal Officer would also include endeavouring to see whether litigation between PSUs and Government Public Sector undertaking can be avoided.