Chandigarh (Balwinder Singh) — In a move designed to enforce institutional accountability and streamline governance, the Haryana government on Wednesday issued a comprehensive Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to ensure the time-bound and result-oriented execution of all directives issued during meetings chaired by the Chief Minister. Under the new protocol, every administrative decision will be converted into measurable action points with clearly identified nodal authorities, explicit delivery milestones, and strictly monitored deadlines.
Issued by Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi, the directives transform the minutes of Chief Minister meetings from descriptive notes into actionable executive documents. Draft minutes must now be prepared within three business days of any review, with the finalized action points uploaded to the CM Meeting Monitoring Portal within two days of approval. Where projects intersect across multiple jurisdictions, the guidelines mandate the explicit designation of a lead department alongside auxiliary agencies to prevent administrative overlap and jurisdictional evasion.
To prevent vague reporting, departments must categorize progress under precise classifications such as completed, in progress, overdue, not started, or unfeasible due to pending policy review. Project closures will require concrete verification, including administrative orders, financial sanctions, photographic evidence, or statistical data before status markers can be marked as complete. Initial Action Taken Reports must be submitted within one month of the approved minutes, followed by mandatory monthly filings for ongoing initiatives detailing existing backlogs, revised completion targets, and explicit reasons for delays.
Under the framework, each department must nominate a senior officer as a departmental nodal official by September 15, 2026, to coordinate submissions, verify data accuracy, and conduct internal weekly reviews. Administrative secretaries will assume personal responsibility for high-priority files and chronic delays, ensuring that bottlenecks requiring inter-departmental clearance or financial sanction are escalated directly to competent authorities. The policy takes immediate effect across all future assemblies headed by the Chief Minister, with retrospective oversight applied to outstanding directives from prior sessions.
