Explanation:

In order to bring greater transparency in government functioning, the state government has added new services related to Health Department and Haryana State Seed Certification Agency to the Right to Service Act, 2014.

The Government of Haryana promulgated Haryana Right to Service Ordinance on 16/12/2013 and published the same in the Gazette on 19/12/2013. Thereafter, the Haryana Right to Service Act, 2014 was passed by the State Assembly and notified the same in the official Gazette on 26/03/2014.

The Haryana Right to Service Act, 2014 was enacted with the sole objective of providing an effective frame work for time bound delivery of services being provided by various government departments under the State of Haryana in order to promote transparency and accountability. As per Section 12 (1) & (2) of the HRTS Act, 2014, there is a provision to constitute Haryana Right to Service Commission (HRTSC) and it shall be a statutory body.

As per the mandate, the state government has fixed the deadline for more than 5 services provided to the citizens by the Health Department and 3 services of the Haryana State Seed Certification Agency. According to the concerned officials, the time limit for issuance of certified copies of Death Certificates and Birth Certificates (already registered) for the current year has been fixed at 14 days, the time limit for issuance of certificates for the last years have been fixed at 30 days for certificates till 1972 and 90 days in the case the required certificates pertain to period before 1972.