Haryana Government has decided that villages having less than 10,000 population and desirous of having more facilities like augmentation of water supply and sewerage would be covered under the Mahagram Yojana - B category.
A decision to this effect was taken in the meeting of Water Supply and Sewerage Board which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar Lal here on Tuesday. Minister of State for Public Health Engineering Dr Banwari Lal was also present in the meeting.
The Chief Minister said that at present, 126 villages of over 10,000 populations are being covered under the Mahagram Yojana.
Facilities like augmentation of water supply, sewerage and setting up sewerage treatment plant are being provided under the scheme, he said. Manohar Lal said that recently, people of various villages have approached him with a request to carry out these development works in their villages also under the scheme for which they have also offered to contribute funds.
During the meeting, he directed that besides providing training to the sewer men, they should also be provided with necessary equipment, uniform and kit so as to prevent any untoward incident of suffocation while cleaning the sewer.