Govt to revise collector rates twice a year: CM

CHANDIGARH: With a view to bringing uniformity, transparency and avoiding any major gap between the market price and collector rates of properties, the Haryana Government has decided to revise the collector rates twice in a financial year in both urban and rural areas.

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 10

With a view to bringing uniformity, transparency and avoiding any major gap between the market price and collector rates of properties, the Haryana Government has decided to revise the collector rates twice in a financial year in both urban and rural areas.

This was stated by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar while speaking at the concluding session of a two-day national meet of the Confederation of Newspaper and News Agency Employees Organisations here today.

A committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner concerned for this purpose. The collector rates fixed by the respective DCs would be uploaded on the website for inviting suggestions and objections and after considering these, the collector rates would be finalised, he added.

Khattar said that three years ago, when he took over the reins of the administration in the state, he had resolved to put an end to corruption by adopting zero tolerance policy and minimising the scope for discretion. Besides scrapping interviews for the selection to Class III and IV category posts, it has been decided to give weightage of 5 per cent to the candidate in whose family no one is in the government job and the annual income of the family is less than Rs 3 lakh.

Similarly, 5 per cent weightage would be given to the candidate who lost his father before attaining the age of 15. A provision of 5 per cent weightage has also been made for the candidates belonging to denotifed tribes who have not yet been covered under the Scheduled Castes or Backward Classes.

While emphasising the need for social security for every individual, he said the state government was taking all such steps as were required for the uplift of the needy and the poor.

“We are the first to announce monthly old-age allowance of Rs 2,000 to all eligible beneficiaries of over 60 years. The old-age allowance is being increased at the rate of Rs 200 every year and from 2019, the beneficiaries would get Rs 2000,” he added.