Now, avail online police services in Haryana at Rs50

The state government reduced the fee for online services on the policing portal Harsamay

Want to apply for an arms’ licence in Gurgaon? Got a new help or tenant to be verified? Just open your smartphone and visit the Haryana Police portal — Harsamay — not only because it will save time, but now it will also save a lot of money.

The 31 services offered online include 10 online verification services such as character certificate, police clearance certificate, employee, tenant and domestic help verification. (Sanjeev Verma/HT FIle)

In a major digital push, the Haryana government on Monday reduced the fee for online services on the state policing portal from Rs 500 to Rs 50.

The 31 services offered online comprise 10 online verification services such as character certificate, police clearance certificate, employee, tenant and domestic help verification. Besides these, 17 services related to arms and arms licensing can be availed online but only for Gurgaon, Faridabad and Panchkula.

However, if one wants to avail these services by going physically to a police station, a fee of Rs500 still has to be paid. A spokesperson for the Haryana Police department said that the step has been taken to reduce the cost of services related to policing.

He said that certain services such as filing complaints or missing person reports online will continue to be free. He also said that filing RTIs or applying for private security agencies online will be chargeable as per existing rates.

Residents can go to the websites www.haryanapoliceonline.gov.in or www.harsamay.gov.in and register to avail the services.

Besides phones, laptops and cyber cafes, this portal can also be accessed at common service centres, Harsamay centres at the Gurgaon secretariat and free registration centres at police stations.

Many flat owners in the city have received notices from RWAs in the past to get their tenants verified. Also, the laws pertaining to guns were made more stringent last year. Besides rifles and pistols, a licence is required for blank guns (mostly used by the film industry), certain types of battery-powered batons that deliver electric shock and paintball guns used in games.