In a transfer aimed to ease regulatory burden, the Haryana Cupboard on Sunday (October 12, 2025) permitted a proposal to introduce the Haryana Jan Vishwas (Modification of Provisions) Ordinance, 2025.
The State cupboard, in its assembly beneath the chairmanship of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, has additionally permitted the proposal for modification within the Punjab Factories Guidelines, 1952 to allow the employment of ladies in sure processes in factories.
The Haryana Jan Vishwas Ordinance seeks to decriminalize 164 provisions contained in 42 State Acts administered by 17 departments, an official assertion stated.
“This initiative aligns with the Authorities of India’s imaginative and prescient of decreasing compliance burdens and decriminalizing minor offenses throughout numerous sectors,” the assertion stated.
The ordinance replaces legal penalties for minor technical and procedural lapses with civil penalties and administrative actions. It additionally removes out of date and redundant clauses, making certain that the authorized framework is extra clear, environment friendly and facilitative.
This reform initiative follows the enactment of the Jan Vishwas (Modification of Provisions) Act, 2023 by the federal government of India, which decriminalized 183 provisions throughout 42 Central Acts.
In pursuit of the advisory issued by the Union authorities, Haryana has undertaken a complete overview of its legal guidelines to undertake an identical strategy on the state stage, the assertion stated.
The introduction of the Haryana Jan Vishwas Ordinance, 2025, was recognized as a key motion merchandise in the course of the fourth Chief Secretaries’ Convention and varieties an essential element of the continuing Compliance Discount. and Deregulation (CRD) train being coordinated by the Cupboard Secretariat, authorities of India, it stated.
A sequence of conferences chaired by the chief secretary, Haryana, with the participation of administrative secretaries of all involved departments, led to the finalization of this landmark reform.
The ordinance would mark a significant shift from enforcement-based to trust-based governance.
It represents essentially the most in depth decriminalization effort undertaken by any state authorities thus far, with the very best variety of legal provisions proposed for removing, the assertion stated.
In one other choice, the cupboard has permitted the proposal for modification within the Punjab Factories Guidelines, 1952 to allow the employment of ladies in sure processes in factories.
The proposed modification will permit the web submission of charges relevant beneath the foundations.
The proposed modification permits the employment of ladies in all classes of labor topic to prescribed security situations.
“The modification will eradicate gender disparity, broaden employment alternatives for ladies, and promote inclusivity in industrial sectors resembling engineering, chemical compounds, and manufacturing the place girls’s “Participation was earlier restricted,” the assertion stated.
“It displays Haryana’s dedication to fashionable labor reforms, empowerment of ladies, and equal alternative ideas enshrined beneath Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Structure of India,” it stated.
It additional stated the modification ensures that pregnant girls and lactating moms are excluded from hazardous employment classes, thereby sustaining the required well being and security safety.
The Haryana Cupboard additionally permitted the framing of State guidelines beneath Sub-section (1) of Part 49 of the Haryana Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Prevention and Management) Act, 2017.
The brand new guidelines will likely be referred to as the Haryana Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Guidelines, 2025.
Below these guidelines, the State authorities will designate the commissioners of its six administrative divisions to behave as ombudsmen.
“Their position, as outlined in Part 23 of the Act, is to deal with complaints and grievances of individuals dwelling with HIV/AIDS. Every ombudsman will function inside their respective divisions– Rohtak, Hisar, Karnal, Gurugram, Faridabad, and Ambala– and will likely be supported by the civil surgeon of the involved district,” the assertion stated.
The cupboard additionally permitted amendments to the Haryana Jail Guidelines, 2022, to include the definition of “recurring offender”. The amended guidelines will likely be referred to as because the Haryana Jail (Modification) Guidelines, 2025.
Below the amended guidelines, the definition of a recurring offender in Rule 2, sub-rule (1), clause (xi) of the Haryana Jail Guidelines, 2022, has been revised.
“Ordinary offender means an individual who throughout any steady interval of 5 years, has been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment on greater than two events on account of any a number of of the offenses dedicated on completely different events and never constituting elements of the identical transaction, such sentence not having been reversed in attraction or overview.
“Supplied that in computing the continual interval of 5 years referred to above, any interval spent in jail both beneath sentence of imprisonment or beneath detention shall not be taken under consideration,” the assertion stated.
The cupboard additionally permitted the proposal to amend the Rule 6(2) of the Punjab Village Frequent Lands Guidelines, 1964 for making provision that out of the land proposed to be leased out for cultivation, 4% shall be reserved for particular person with benchmark incapacity of 60% or above.
Revealed – October 12, 2025 10:29 pm IST