Haryana Government will spend more than Rs2,743.55 crore to improve drinking water supply, sewerage and storm water drainage system in various towns of the state during 2015-16.
The scheme wise allocation was finalized in the maiden meeting of Water Supply and Sewerage Board for the year 2015-16 held under Chief Minister Manohar lal on Friday. The amount will be spent for improving drinking water supply to 650 households in rural areas, construct 28 new sewage treatment plants and improve water supply in the state. During the meeting, Manohar lal directed the officers to ensure expeditious utilization of funds, maintain quality in the construction works of various projects and to involve the local people in monitoring the progress of implementation of these schemes.
The Chief Minister also directed the officers to ensure transparency in allotment of the works and upload all the information on the public domain so that the people could know the status of ongoing development works being undertaken in their respective areas. He has asked the officials that the details of contractor like his name and phone number should also be displayed on the public domain at www.wss.nic.in. Out of the total 30.50 lakh rural households in the state, drinking water connection has been released to about 16 lakh such households so far.
The Chief Minister directed the Public Health Engineering Department to conduct a survey alongwith Development and Panchayats Department to finalize the mode of laying underground pipeline for ensuring water supply in the villages. Efforts should be made to ensure that the roads made of concrete are not damaged while laying pipelines, he added.
Out of thse total amount, Rs 1106 crore would be spent for improvement of drinking water supply facilities in the rural and urban areas and sewerage and storm water drainage facilities in the urban areas. While emphasizing the need to review the public utility services regularly, the Chief Minister said that the schemes related to water supply, electricity and roads should be reviewed on quarterly basis so that various ongoing projects could be completed in a time bound manner.
He also directed the concerned officers to replace the old meters and release the pending tubewell connections on priority basis. The Power Department has released about 270 tubewell connections during the last about ten months.
Various installations which were approved in the meeting for rural areas included 399 new tubewells including 315 in rural areas and 84 in urban areas, seven independent Canal based water works, 289 pipe lines works and 70 others including augmentation of existing water works, office building, independent feeders, sustainability, raw water arrangement etc. in rural areas.