New district tag for Gohana, Hansi delayed

Pradeep Sharma

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 9

Gohana and Hansi towns will have to wait for a little longer to acquire the status of districts as the Haryana Government has extended the term of a high-powered committee mandated to redraw the state’s administrative map till January 10. There is a remote possibility of upgrade of these towns till at least mid-2022.

In fact, the delay in Census 2021 operations, in view of Covid, has taken a toll on the reorganisation of the administration units such as subdivisions, tehsils, sub-tehsils, blocks and panchayats across the state.

Last year, the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, Vivek Joshi, in a communication to state Chief Secretary and other secretaries, had asked them to make changes in the administrative boundaries of the states till December 31, 2020. However, the government failed to meet the deadline. Sources stated that now, no changes in the administration units could be made till the Census 2021 was completed. “Normally, when the census operations, including house-listing and population enumeration, are under way, the states are asked not to make any changes in the administrative boundaries of their districts, towns, villages and tehsils,” a senior officer told The Tribune.

Wait till Census gets over

• Haryana cannot redraw its administrative map till the completion of Census 2021
• Census Dept had asked states to make changes till Dec 31, 2020, but Haryana failed to meet the deadline
• Now, Haryana has extended the term of the committee