Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Tuesday directed that a committee comprising local councilor and two or three other members should be constituted in the cities to audit the expenditure after the completion of projects.
The Chief Minister issued the directions at a meeting of senior officers of Urban Local Bodies Department and Public representatives here to review the progress of various development works and schemes under Gurugram and Faridabad and Karnal Smart City and 18 cities under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), Haryana .
Urban Local Bodies Minister Kavita Jain, Minister of State for Cooperation Manish Grover, Industries Minister Vipul Goel, MLAs namely Nagender Bhadana, Seema Trikha, Moolchand Sharma and Mayor, Senior Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayor and Commissioners of Municipal Corporations were also present in the meeting.
At the meeting, the Chief Minister said that apart from the 13 member ward level committee constituted for the implementation of development works in the cities, a committee comprising local councilor and two or three other members should be constituted who would audit the expenditure after the completion of projects.
He directed that meeting of these members should be convened once in every two months.
Manohar Lal said that there is no dearth of funds with the State Government for development works.
I will convene a meeting to review the progress of Chief Minister’s announcement pertaining to various development works in the state on June 3, he added.
He said that keeping in view the growing interest among youth and women towards the open gyms in parks as set up by the State Government, such gyms should be set up all cities in the state.
Apart from this, the concept of e-Rickshaw should be promoted besides city bus service. For this, the Urban Local Bodies Department would arrange loan facility for the beneficiaries through banks, he said.
During the meeting, Principal Secretary, Urban Local Bodies Anand Mohan Sharan gave detailed presentation on the development works in 18 cities and apprised the Chief Minister about the progress. He informed that Faridabad and Karnal were selected as smart cities in May 2016 and June 2017 respectively. Thereafter, Faridabad Smart City Limited (FSCL) and Karnal Smart City Limited (KSCL), a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) was established.
The Chief Minister was apprized that as many as 45 projects are being implemented for Faridabad city at a cost of Rs 2560.30 crore. Out of these, two projects costing Rs 2.6 crore has been completed and work on 15 projects are in progress at a cost of Rs 595.87 crore.
Apart from this, tender have been uploaded for two projects worth Rs 30.64 crore. Similarly, Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) of two Projects costing Rs 504.61 crore have been approved and DPRs of 10 projects costing Rs 241.23 crore is at the final stage of completion. In addition, DPRs of two projects worth Rs 32.26 crore is being prepared and situation analysis and feasibility study of 12 projects costing Rs 1153.09 crore is under progress.
Sharan informed that under the Smart City Mission, 57 projects are being implemented for Karnal city at a cost of Rs 1171.83 crore. These included about 40 projects with a cost of Rs 1022.08 crores (87.22) per cent as Area Based Development projects for infrastructure development and 17 projects with a cost of Rs 149.75 crores (12.78) per cent as PAN City Solutions for ICT components installation along with infrastructure works.