chandigarh for the last three years the haryana finance department has not reviewed the performance of public and private sector banks dealing with the governmentharyana chief minister manohar lal khattar who holds the finance portfolio admitted this while responding to an unstarred question from congress mla varun chaudhary during the assemblys budget session the cms list of banks that deal with the government departments for deposits and disbursal included a private bank that had given sleepless nights to the electricity distribution companies and several other departments because of its financial crisis three years ago the cm tabled a reply in the assembly that the empanelment was not reviewed in the last three years but information was sought from the banks to facilitate the reviews as the process could not be finalised due to covid19 pandemic guidelines were issued till then chaudhary claimed that it had exposed the state governments lack of concern about the public money and assets we all remember how a private bank with the accounts of electricity distribution companies had run into a crisis surprisingly the same bank not just stays on the list of those doing business with the government but is now a preferred bank the reply has been circulated in public domain for further debatethe mla said the question didnt relate to his mullana constituency but concerned the entire state he said money matters need careful handling a review of the empanelment is mandatory after one year