Haryana Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal on Friday said that five projects worth Rs 498 crore have been approved for the upgradation of IT services and resources in the state including Rs 50 crore for the installation of new and high-speed optical fibre lines at Haryana Civil Secretariat and new-secretariat in Chandigarh, mini secretariats in all the districts. Presiding over the 48th meeting of the State- level IT steering committee, Kaushal said that IT system and the Local Area Network (LAN) system are an integral part of the ICT infrastructure to ensure that the benefits of schemes and policies reach the people of the state in a transparent and time-bound manner. So,the complete redesigning of the IT infrastructure and LAN using the latest techniques will be done in the State.