Complete transparency adopted in police recruitment: Hry Govt

Chandigarh, Aug 30 (PTI) Countering the allegations of"large-scale bungling in police recruitment" made by Congress,the Haryana Government today said "complete transparency" hasbeen adopted in the process. "Complete transparency has been adopted during policerecruitment, whereas there used to be political interferencein recruitment during tenure of previous governments," stateFinance Minister Abhimanyu told the Assembly replying to aquestion raised by senior Congress member Kiran Choudhary. Choudhary alleged that record timings for completing theruns during the recruitment process were being claimed by somecandidates in the recent police recruitments which had raisedeyebrows. Her party colleague Randeep Singh Surjewala had a fewdays back told reporters outside the Assembly there were"large scale bungling in the police recruitments". Abhimanyu said some candidates claimed they had completedtheir runs in time "lesser than Olympics record" but when thecourt asked thme to authenticate their claim they could not. Abhimanyu assured the House if such candidates, who hadparticipated in police recruitment, can complete their runs inrecord time then the government would honour them with cashprize at par given to Olympics medal winners. The Minister said Haryana State Selection Commission hasalso issued clarification in this regard after claims offastest runs were made. He said Opposition leaders may not have correctinformation about facts and all record of police recruitmentis available on the CommissionÂ’s website. Abhimanyu also told the Assembly, Haryana is amongleading states in terms of Aadhaar penetration with 96 percent registration. The Assembly was also informed an outline has beenprepared to make 200 services of various departments onlineand 125 e-services have already been implemented. Auction of liquor vends of Excise and Taxation Departmenthas been done through e-tendering. Abhimanyu said that the government has a plan to bring Rs5916.07 crore of 73 schemes of 15 departments under DBT duringthe year 2016-17. He said the process of obtaining No Objection Certificatein Environment Department has been simplified. He said that by making the services of Food and SuppliesDepartment online, kerosene subsidy amounting to Rs 10.40crore being taken illegally by ineligible 4.66 lakh people,out of total 11.05 lakh beneficiaries, was stopped, whichwould result in saving of Rs 125 crore annually. PTI SUN TIRRGTIR