The Final Round Conference of The Governance Challenge (TGC) was organized at Panchkula in which 6 finalist teams pitched their solution to the Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar.
NMIMS Mumbai emerged as the winner of the first edition of TGC 2022. The Chief Minister honoured the winning team with a trophy, and certificate and also presented them with a cheque of Rs 5 lakh. Similarly, a trophy, certificate and a cheque of Rs. 3 lakh was handed over to the IIM Bangalore team, which finished second, while a trophy, certificate and cheque worth Rs. 1 lakh was given to IIM Kozhikode, which came third.
Speaking on the occasion, Khattar said, “When I took oath as the Chief Minister in the year 2014, many said that I have no experience of how a Chief Minister works, but we certainly had the experience of serving the people and developing a citizen-friendly system. Taking this experience a step further we decided to celebrate December 25, as Good Governance Day and also took a new initiative, CM Window was started, which today is yielding positive results.”
He said that in the last 8 years, more than 10 lakh complaints have been received on CM Window, out of which 90 percent of complaints have been resolved. Now the common man can directly send their grievances to the government while sitting at home through the online system. The CM said that taking a big step for the convenience of the teachers, an online teacher transfer policy was started in Haryana, which today is being followed by other states also. Thus, in the last 8 years, the state government has done more than 100 works of system change to ensure better service delivery to the common man.
Khattar said that 5S that is Shiksha, Swasthaya, Suraksha, Swabhiman and Swavlambhan are the basic necessities and realizing the same the present State Government is continuously working towards fulfilling these basic needs. He said that in today's era more emphasis is being laid on skill development besides academics Realizing the same, Haryana Government has also established Shri Vishwakarma Skill University in the state to promote skill development. In this, skill training is being imparted to the youth in various fields.
He said that youth should aim to become job givers instead of job seekers. This can be realized only when they will become skilled. It is pivotal that the Youth should be targeted to do something for the country and for this it is necessary to organize a programme like The Governance Challenge.
The CM said that taking a step further to ensure the welfare of the farmers, the State government has started the Meri Fasal - Mera Byora Portal, on which the farmer himself can enter the details of their land and crop. Similarly, taking another new initiative in their interest, the e-Fasal Kshatipoorti portal has been started on which the farmers individually update their crop loss information. Once any farmer updates the information about his crop loss, then the concerned Patwari, Kanungo should ensure verification of the data uploaded by the farmer within seven days so that they can get timely compensation of the same, he added.
The Governance Challenge (TGC) is a national governance case competition envisioned to engage the most talented youth of our country on governance issues. Haryana is the participating State for the inaugural edition of TGC. In TGC 2022, students from 30 business and policy schools in India are ideating on the theme- Making Haryana’s youth future ready for the changing livelihood opportunities of the next decade.
The list of top six finalist teams are SVKM NMIMS, IIM Bangalore, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Shillong, IIM Udaipur, IIFT.
Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Dr. Amit Agrawal, Director General, Foreign Cooperation Department, Anant Prakash Pandey and other senior officers also remained present on this occasion.
