Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar recalling past scenarios said that when the BJP government started ruling in 2014, many questioned regarding his capability in running the government were raised by the political parties in opposition in the state. While presenting a report card on the completion of nine years of his government, CM Khattar highlighting several achievements as well as people-oriented and public welfare programmes carried by his government also released a booklet on party’s achievements in the state in this period of nine years he compared with the achievements of 27 years in-spite of the fact the BJP formed the government in Haryana for the first time on its own in 2014. Since the Bharatiya Janata Party, which fell short of majority in the 2019 Vidhan assembly polls had an alliance with Jannayak Janta Party to form the government a second time.
Addressing the media along with Minister Kanwar Pal and other senior officers of his government, Khattar said his government had announced to work on five S—‘Shiksha, Swasth, Suraksha, ‘Swambhiman’ and ‘Swavlamban’ with good governance. Khattar said, prior to this there were talks of discrimination, corruption and there was an atmosphere of despair and after being fed up with the atmosphere of despair, the people of Haryana welcomed BJP government with high hopes,Khattar said that questions were raised that he does not have any experience and without any experience, how many days will he be able to run the government when Congress have been ruling for years in the state. Khattar said that after becoming chief minister in 2014, though we were not having the kind of experience the previous government (Congress) had of indulging in loot and corruption, but I certainly had the experience of serving the people.
Manohar Lal Khattar spoke about several plans and programmes including his government’s flagship ‘Parivar Pehchan Patra’ (family ID scheme), and ‘Meri Fasal Mera Byora’, compensation to farmers, welfare schemes for the poor and other sections etc as he emphasized on using the technology for good governance for the welfare of the people.Khattar said the state’s sex ratio, such as the number of females per 1,000 of males has also been improved from 871 in 2014 to 932 at present, which is likely to improve further. Khattar said, in agriculture sector his government raised the compensation amount for crop loss because of natural calamity from Rs 6,000 per acre in 2013 to Rs 15,000 per acre.He added in the last nine years, his government disbursed a compensation of Rs 11,000 crore to farmers while the previous government had paid Rs 1,158 crore in 10 years.
