Chandigarh, Sept. 10 -- Haryana government has put in place a mechanism to closely monitor progress of decisions and directions issued during meetings chaired by chief minister Nayab Singh Saini. Under the system, departments will have to fix responsibility and deadlines for every actionable direction and back claims of compliance with documentary evidence.

The objective of this mechanism is to ensure decisions taken at the highest level are translated into a time-bound action on the ground.

Under a standard operating procedure (SOP) issued by chief secretary Anurag Rastogi, all departments have been directed to avoid vague compliance remarks such as "action is being taken" and instead spell out what has actually been done on each decis...