The Hindu 04.09.2012
120-crore water schemes approved in Haryana
The Haryana Government on Monday approved two Rs.120-crore schemes
for the augmentation of water supply in Hisar and Hassanpur (Palwal)
towns under the 13th Finance Commission grants.
Chief Secretary
P.K.Chaudhery, who chaired the meeting of the high-level monitoring
committee, said the fire services would be strengthened during the next
five years at a cost of Rs.100 crore.
The projects and schemes of
several departments for utilisation of the Commission’s grant-in-aid as
provided by the Government of India for the period 2010-15 were also
approved, Principal Secretary, Finance, Sanjeev Kaushal said.
On
the water augmentation schemes, he said these would be completed in a
time-frame of three years and the water supply would be augmented to 135
LPCD in both the places as compared to 120 LPCD at present in Hisar and
55 LPCD in Hassanpur.
Another project for the rehabilitation,
renovation and modernisation of critically damaged channels of the
irrigation network of Rs 53.67 crore for the year 2012-13 was also
proposed in the meeting.
Mr. Kaushal added that under the 13th
Finance Commission, Development and Panchayats Department had been
allocated Rs. 710.67 crore; Urban Local Bodies Department Rs. 284.03
crore; Revenue Department Rs. 799.54 crore; Science and Technology
Department Rs. 21 crore; Elementary Education Department Rs. 229 crore;
Administration of Justice Rs. 124.20 crore, Information and Technology
Rs. 32.10 crore; Planning Department Rs. 21 crore; Treasury and Accounts
Rs. 10 crore; Forests Department Rs. 8.80 crore; Irrigation Department
Rs. 212.08 crore; PWD (B&R) Rs. 267 crore; Public Health Engineering
Rs. 300 crore for drinking water Supply in Shivalik and Southern
Haryana and Rs. 100 crore for augmentation of drinking water in Mewat
region; Health Rs. 300 crore; Industrial Training Rs. 100 crore and Home
Department Rs. 100 crore.
