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Tuesday, Apr 26, 2005

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Haryana Boards, Corporations get back power on recruitment

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New system for fixing floor rate for land acquisition

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Cabinet, which met here on Monday under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, decided to promulgate an ordinance to amend the Haryana Public Service Commission (Additional Functions) Act, 1974, to restore the power of selecting candidates to the Boards and Corporations.

According to Mr.Hooda, recruitment to all posts carrying an initial pay of Rs. 8,000 or above per month under Boards or Corporations would not be made through the Commission. He further said that the powers which had been centralised by the previous regime had been decentralised and the Boards and Corporations under the Government would have their own system of recruitment.

The Cabinet also decided to opt for a new system of fixing floor rate of land acquisition to ensure payment of fair compensation to the farmers based on the market rates. Mr. Hooda said that the State had been divided into three zones for the purpose -- urbanisable area as shown in the Gurgaon Development Plan; rest of the National Capital Region sub-region of Haryana including Panchkula and periphery of Chandigarh forming part of Haryana State and rest of the State outside Haryana sub-region of NCR.

The urbanisable area of Gurgaon will have a minimum floor price of Rs. 15 lakhs per acre; the rest of Haryana sub-region of NCR including Panchkula and area of Chandigarh periphery will have a minimum floor rate of Rs. 12.50 lakhs per acre and the rest of the State will have a minimum floor rate of Rs. 5 lakhs per acre.

Mr.Hooda said that no tax would be imposed on fertilizer and gypsum while the rate of tax on diesel would remain at 12 per cent.

The rate of tax on sale of drugs and medicines, kerosene sold through PDS, paper, sports goods, tractor parts, telephones, sewing machines, coir and coir products (except mattresses) and bitumen would be reduced to 4 per cent. Tax on notified raw materials and packing materials used by industrial units would be reduced to 4 per cent and they would not have to furnish declarations.

Dealers with turnover up to Rs. 5 lakhs would be exempt from the levy of tax. This would cover village artisans and cottage industry.

Pre-owned cars would attract tax at the rate of 4 per cent. And as a special gesture to school-going children, exercise books, lead pencils, drawing books and so on would be exempt from tax. The Cabinet also decided to ban lotteries from May 1.

The staff of the Lottery Department would be adjusted in other Government Departments in consultation with the Chief Secretary.

It also approved in principle the proposal of the Haryana Town and Country Planning Department to extend the Delhi Metro Rail from Delhi-Haryana border to Gurgaon.

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