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Local Area Development Board for Haryana

Special Correspondent

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government has constituted a Haryana Local Area Development Board under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda under the Local Area Development Tax Act, 2000.

The State Chief Secretary, Finance Secretary, Financial Commissioner for Excise and Taxation, Financial Commissioner for Development and Panchayat and Financial Commissioner for Urban Development are its ex-officio members while the Excise and Taxation Commissioner is the member-secretary. Additional Excise and Taxation Commissioner K.S. Malik has been appointed ex-officio Chief Executive Officer.

The functions

The functions and objectives of the Board will be to ensure balanced development of the local areas falling within the domain of the urban as well as the rural local bodies.

It would also identity the areas that require immediate development or maintenance of infrastructure facilities out of proceeds of the tax.

The Board would also recommend allotment of proceeds of tax for developing and maintaining infrastructure facilities like roads, bridges, culverts, sewerage, drainage, sanitation, waste management, electricity, drinking water and other infrastructure facilities.

Tax collection

It would also ensure that the proceeds of tax collected under this Act are spent judiciously for the development of the local areas.

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