COVID-19 Impact: Haryana To Redefine The Role Of The State: HGRA Commissioned To Prepare Prospective Plan
Chandigarh, June 19, 2020: To adapt to the challenges, including people's health and livelihood, thrown up by COVID-19, Chief Minister of Haryana, Manohar Lal has commissioned HGRA to prepare a short and medium-term prospective plan.
Prof. Pramod Kumar, Chairperson, HGRA has been requested to coordinate the work of the task groups constituted to prepare the prospective plan.
Disclosing this here today, a spokesman of the Haryana Government said that there was a need for a Prospective Plan for Re-adaptation for Haryana the devastating effects of COVID-19 on people’s health and livelihood have thrown new challenges to governance practices. To capture these challenges and opportunities, the Chief Minister of Haryana, Sh. Manohar Lal has commissioned HGRA to prepare a short and medium-term prospective plan. Prof. Pramod Kumar, Chairperson, HGRA has been requested to coordinate the work of the task groups constituted to prepare the prospective plan. Sh. T.C. Gupta, I.A.S., will represent the State government and he will be assisted by a team of senior civil servants attached to the each task group as a member-secretaries. The perspective is to refocus the role of the government to correct the disruptions in production and supply chains with a view to prioritise policies to meet the essential needs of the people.
And also redefine the role of the state in relation to market particularly in education, health, food security, public health, and housing sectors. For this purpose, number of task groups has been constituted to work out the short and medium term prospective plan. The Task Group on Food, Agriculture and Allied Services will be chaired by Prof. Ramesh Chand, Member Niti Aayog, and Government of India.
The task group on Industries and Commerce will be chaired by Sh. R.C. Bhargava, Chairperson Maruti Suzuki. The Health, Public Health & Municipal Services task group will be chaired by Dr K.S. Reddy, Chairperson, Public Health Foundation alongwith Dr. V.M. Katoch, former D.G., Indian Council of Medical Research as Co-chairperson. 2 | P a g e The task group on Housing for All to be chaired by Sh. Ashok Jain, Principal Consultant, Niti Aayog, Govt. of India, on Skilling and Education to be chaired by Prof. Yogesh Singh, ViceChancellor of Delhi Technological University, New Delhi; on Revenue Generation, Tourism, Hospitality, Excise and GST by Prof. Mukul Asher of National University of Singapore. The task group on Governance Policy for Essentials (including I.T. application) will be headed Prof. Pramod Kumar, Director, Institute for Development and Communication (IDC), and Chairperson, Haryana Governance Reforms Authority (HGRA), Chandigarh.
The Terms of Reference for the prospective plan shall include; to capture the challenges and identify opportunities for industry, trade, services, agriculture etc., and thereby suggest institutional reforms to meet existential requirements including creation of opportunities for youth and to provide shelter, hygiene, health care, education of children and food security for all particularly poor. The prospective plan may have to redefine the role of the state to plan for the basic needs of the people like food, health, education, public health, transport, shelter and well being of its citizens, and suggest short and medium term plan.
The prospective plan may suggest strategies for re-adaptation of the policies, programs, schemes initiated by the state government to meet the challenge of the pandemic Covid-19. This will include reexamination of the disruptions occurred in production and supply chains and suggest amendments. It has been mandated that the short-term prospective plan to be submitted within three months and the medium terms plan within six months of the constitution of the task groups.