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In a determination aimed to easiness regulatory burden, the Haryana Cabinet connected Sunday (October 12, 2025) approved a connection to present the Haryana Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Ordinance, 2025.
The State cabinet, successful its gathering nether the chairmanship of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, has besides approved the connection for amendment successful the Punjab Factories Rules, 1952 to licence the employment of women successful definite processes successful factories.
The Haryana Jan Vishwas Ordinance seeks to decriminalise 164 provisions contained successful 42 State Acts administered by 17 departments, an authoritative connection said.
“This inaugural aligns with the Government of India’s imaginativeness of reducing compliance burdens and decriminalising insignificant offences crossed assorted sectors,” the connection said.
The ordinance replaces transgression penalties for insignificant method and procedural lapses with civilian penalties and administrative actions. It besides removes obsolete and redundant clauses, ensuring that the ineligible model is much transparent, businesslike and facilitative.
This betterment inaugural follows the enactment of the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2023 by the authorities of India, which decriminalised 183 provisions crossed 42 Central Acts.
In pursuance of the advisory issued by the Union government, Haryana has undertaken a broad reappraisal of its laws to follow a akin attack astatine the authorities level, the connection said.
The instauration of the Haryana Jan Vishwas Ordinance, 2025, was identified arsenic a cardinal enactment point during the 4th Chief Secretaries’ Conference and forms an important constituent of the ongoing Compliance Reduction and Deregulation (CRD) workout being coordinated by the Cabinet Secretariat, authorities of India, it said.
A bid of meetings chaired by the main secretary, Haryana, with the information of administrative secretaries of each acrophobic departments, led to the finalisation of this landmark reform.
The ordinance would people a large displacement from enforcement-based to trust-based governance.
It represents the astir extended decriminalisation effort undertaken by immoderate State authorities to date, with the highest fig of transgression provisions projected for removal, the connection said.
In different decision, the furniture has approved the connection for amendment successful the Punjab Factories Rules, 1952 to licence the employment of women successful definite processes successful factories.
The projected amendment volition let the online submission of fees applicable nether the rules.
The projected amendment allows the employment of women successful each categories of enactment taxable to prescribed information conditions.
“The amendment volition destruct sex disparity, grow employment opportunities for women, and beforehand inclusivity successful concern sectors specified arsenic engineering, chemicals, and manufacturing wherever women’s information was earlier restricted,” the connection said.
“It reflects Haryana’s committedness to modern labour reforms, empowerment of women, and adjacent accidental principles enshrined nether Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Constitution of India,” it said.
It further said the amendment ensures that large women and lactating mothers are excluded from hazardous employment categories, thereby maintaining the required wellness and information protection.
The Haryana Cabinet besides approved the framing of State rules nether Sub-section (1) of Section 49 of the Haryana Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Prevention and Control) Act, 2017.
The caller rules volition beryllium called the Haryana Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Rules, 2025.
Under these rules, the State authorities volition designate the commissioners of its six administrative divisions to enactment arsenic ombudsmen.
“Their role, arsenic outlined successful Section 23 of the Act, is to grip complaints and grievances of radical surviving with HIV/AIDS. Each ombudsman volition run wrong their respective divisions-- Rohtak, Hisar, Karnal, Gurugram, Faridabad, and Ambala-- and volition beryllium supported by the civilian surgeon of the acrophobic district,” the connection said.
The furniture besides approved amendments to the Haryana Prison Rules, 2022, to incorporated the explanation of “habitual offender”. The amended rules volition beryllium called arsenic the Haryana Prison (Amendment) Rules, 2025.
Under the amended rules, the explanation of a habitual offender successful Rule 2, sub-rule (1), clause (xi) of the Haryana Prison Rules, 2022, has been revised.
“Habitual offender means a idiosyncratic who during immoderate continuous play of 5 years, has been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment connected much than 2 occasions connected relationship of immoderate 1 oregon much of the offences committed connected antithetic occasions and not constituting parts of aforesaid transaction, specified condemnation not having been reversed successful entreaty oregon review.
“Provided that successful computing the continuous play of 5 years referred to above, immoderate play spent successful jailhouse either nether condemnation of imprisonment oregon nether detention shall not beryllium taken into account,” the connection said.
The furniture besides approved the connection to amend the Rule 6(2) of the Punjab Village Common Lands Rules, 1964 for making proviso that retired of the onshore projected to beryllium leased retired for cultivation, 4% shall beryllium reserved for idiosyncratic with benchmark disablement of 60% oregon above.
