Indicating towards the BJP-led Haryana Government’s resolve to ensure that the State gets its due share of water from all interstate river agreements, Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki on Monday said that the Government is actively taking all steps for expeditious completion of Satluj Yamuna link Channel and linking of BMl-Hansi Branch-Butana Branch multipurpose link channel. laying down the policy of Manohar lal Khattar-led State Government, the Governor in his address to the Haryana Assembly on the inaugural day of the Budget Session said that the State Government is committed to ensure that Haryana gets its due share of water from all inter-State river agreements.
Ever since its creation in 1966, Haryana has been engaged in a dispute over sharing of river waters with Punjab. The Governor said that the State Government is working to improve irrigation in the water deficit southern Haryana and consistent efforts are being taken by the Government in line with its vision “Har Khet Ko Paani’. By harnessing rain water through ‘Jal Sanchay’ and ‘Jal Sinchan’, the Government will nurture water conservation and ground water recharge. Also, micro-irrigation will be popularised to ensure ‘per drop-more crop’. The Government also proposes to launch ‘Atal Kheti Baadi Khata Yojana’ under which digitalised registration cards will be issued to all the farmers in the State, he added.
The Governor’s address provided details of plans and progress of various schemes related to education, health, power, agriculture, law and order, rural development among other sectors. To ensure greater access to girls in higher education, Solanki said that more Government colleges, exclusively for girls, will be opened to ensure them greater access in higher education. “At present, there are 26 Government girls’ colleges and 35 privately-managed girls’ colleges which are being provided 95 per cent grant-in-aid by the State Government.
We also intend to create gender sensitive environment in the institutions imparting higher education in the State,” he said. Reaffirming that the Government would ensure effective and stringent measures for implementation of ban on cow slaughter in the State, Solanki said that the State Government would introduce the Haryana Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan Bill, 2015 in the current session to ensure strict penalties alongwith provisions for conservation and up-gradation of indigenous breeds of cows like Hariana and Sahiwal.
The Governor added that the State Government is committed to nurturing the right environment for actualising the decisive mandate of the people and ensuring social equity through equitable distribution of resources, transparency in governance, zero tolerance to graft, and balanced growth of all parts of the State.
Power sector
For further increasing the power supply and to phase out old and inefficient Units I to IV of 110 MW capacity each, it has been decided to set up 1 x 800 MW Supercritical Thermal Power Unit at Panipat at a cost of about Rs4,000 crore. A new joint venture company with Uttar Pradesh Government has been incorporated for developing Kalyanpur- Badalpara coal block in Jharkhand, with the help of which another supercritical 800-MW plant will be set up at Yamuna Nagar in due course.
State to roll out 150 e-services
The State Government would roll out more than 150 e-services for the benefit of the citizens during 2015-16. “The Government is building up a State Resident Database (SRDB) to interface with departmental IT applications and Aadhar database. The SRDB will provide for convergence of data from multiple databases of various departments including UID database. The geo-spatial layer will enable the State to index identities and properties of the citizens,” said the Governor.
Health
Ten new buildings of hospitals and 12 new buildings each of CHCs and PHCs during the year 2015-16 is proposed to be constructed. Another 72 ambulances would be added to the existing fleet of 406 ambulances in Haryana. Apart from this, a list of 427 essential drugs has been prepared which will be provided free of cost in the Government hospitals.
Education
The State Government will shortly implement the mandatory maintenance of Continois and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) of nearly 20 lakh students from Class I to VIII in Government schools of Haryana.