Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh-
During the Monsoon Session of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha today, three bills were passed. These include the Haryana Appropriation (No. 3) Bill, 2025, the Haryana Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2025, and Haryana Management of Civic Amenities and Infrastructure Deficient Areas Outside Municipal Area (Special Provisions) Amendment Act, 2025.
The Haryana Appropriation (No. 3) Bill, 2025 was passed to authorize payment and appropriation of a sum of ₹4251,04,93,881 (Rupees Four Thousand Two Hundred Fifty-One Crore Four Lakh Ninety-Three Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty-One only) out of the Consolidated Fund of the State of Haryana towards services for the financial year 2025–26 ending on the 31st day of March, 2026.
The Haryana Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2025 was passed to amend the Haryana Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017. The Haryana Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 was enacted by the State Government with the objective of levying and collecting tax on the intra-state supply of goods or services or both. On the recommendations of the GST Council and in line with the amendments made in the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 through the Finance Act, 2025 (Central Act 7 of 2025), amendments to the Haryana Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 have been proposed. These include provisions such as insertion of a new clause in Section 2 to define “Unique Identification Marking” for implementation of the Track-and-Trace mechanism, changes in Section 17 to remove ambiguity regarding input tax credit on plant and machinery, clarification in Section 34 that credit notes already availed will require reversal of input tax credit, and substitution of Section 107 to mandate pre-deposit of 10 percent of penalty amount for appeals in penalty-only cases. The amendments also provide for a new Section 122-A introducing penalties for violations related to the Track-and-Trace system, a new Section 148-A empowering effective monitoring and control over supply of specified goods, and a new clause in Schedule III to specify that supply of goods in Special Economic Zones or Free Trade Warehousing Zones before clearance for export or domestic tariff area will neither be treated as supply of goods nor as supply of services.
The Haryana Management of Civic Amenities and Infrastructure Deficient Areas Outside Municipal Area (Special Provisions) Amendment Act, 2025 was also passed to amend the 2021 Act. The original Act was enacted to provide necessary services in areas outside municipal limits that lacked civic amenities and infrastructure, with the objective of improving the living standards of residents in such areas. A total of 684 unauthorized residential colonies were considered for regularization. In his Budget Speech, the Chief Minister had announced the regularization of unauthorized industrial colonies, noting that in the last ten years around 2,145 unauthorized residential colonies had already been regularized. He emphasized that similar attention is now required for unauthorized industrial colonies. It was therefore decided that if at least 50 entrepreneurs whose units are located on a minimum of 10 acres of contiguous land apply collectively on a portal, then such industrial units shall be deemed valid until the government takes a final decision on the group’s application.
In line with this budget announcement, the Government also intends to focus on unauthorized industrial establishments developed in the State so that these establishments may be provided with basic civic amenities and infrastructure. The primary objective of the State Government is to ensure a healthy environment by providing minimum basic infrastructure in such areas. Accordingly, the Haryana Management of Civic Amenities and Infrastructure Deficient Areas Outside Municipal Area (Special Provisions) Amendment Act, 2025 has been enacted.*