Haryana: Governance, Welfare and Social Sector

What the official syllabus says

HCS Main Written Examination, Paper IV: General Studies-II:

• Related issues of Haryana.

This page applies the paper's governance and social-justice areas to Haryana.

Topics in detail

E-governance and service delivery

• Antyodaya SARAL: single platform and service centres for government-to-citizen services
• CM Window: grievance portal and its follow-up
• Parivar Pehchan Patra: family identity database for eligibility to schemes (Haryana Parivar Pehchan Act, 2021)
• Online land records (HALRIS) and property registration
• Right to Service Act, 2014: notified services, time limits, automatic appeal
• Direct benefit transfer for pensions, scholarships and subsidies
• Issues: errors in data, exclusion, privacy, digital access in rural areas

Vulnerable sections in Haryana

• Adverse sex ratio: Census 2011 recorded 879 females per 1,000 males, and a child sex ratio of 834
• Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, launched at Panipat on 22 January 2015; enforcement of the PCPNDT Act
• Women's safety, dowry and domestic violence; women's participation in work
• Honour crimes and caste-based violence; Shakti Vahini v. Union of India (2018) guidelines
• Scheduled Castes in Haryana: atrocities, land, education
• Social security pensions for the elderly, widows and persons with disabilities
• Welfare of ex-servicemen and their families
• Drug abuse among youth

Health

• Public health network: PHCs, CHCs, district civil hospitals, medical colleges
• PGIMS Rohtak and other teaching hospitals; AIIMS at Badhsa (Jhajjar)
• Ayushman Bharat in the State; maternal and child health; anaemia among women and children
• Health gaps in Nuh (an aspirational district) and in the Mewat region

Education and human resources

• School education: enrolment, government and private schools, learning levels
• Samagra Shiksha in Haryana; school meals; girls' education
• Higher education: State universities, Kurukshetra University, Maharshi Dayanand University (Rohtak), Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (Hisar)
• Skill development: Shri Vishwakarma Skill University, ITIs
• Unemployment among educated youth; migration abroad; recruitment through HPSC and HSSC

Poverty and hunger

• Haryana's relatively high per capita income and its regional disparities
• Pockets of deprivation: Nuh, parts of south and west Haryana
• Public distribution system and NFSA coverage in the State
• Child malnutrition indicators for Haryana in the National Family Health Survey

Social questions before the State

• Demands for reservation by communities, and the limits laid down in Indra Sawhney (1992)
• Agitation, public order and compensation for damage to property
• Migrant workers in industrial towns: housing, health, children's schooling
• Elderly care in villages as younger people migrate

Welfare delivery by type

• Social security pensions for the elderly (old age samman allowance), widows and destitute women, and persons with disabilities
• Scholarships and hostels for Scheduled Caste and Backward Class students
• Nutrition through anganwadis and school meals
• Housing for the rural and urban poor
• Monitoring of sex ratio at birth through civil registration and action against sex-selection
• Eligibility checks through the family identity database and their effect on beneficiaries

Overlaps

Haryana's economy and agriculture are in General Studies III; its society and culture in General Studies I.