With the urban local bodies in Haryana in a financial mess, Chief Minister, Manohar lal on Wednesday announced to release `100 crore from his discretionary funds to the municipalities in the current financial year to shore up their working and enable the councillors to get development works executed easily in their respective wards.
Presiding over a review meeting of the Urban local Bodies Department here, the Chief Minister directed the officers to fix a quota for the mayors, deputy mayors and councillors from the next financial year.
He said with a view to making Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan a success, integrated solid waste management projects should be executed in the cities on a pilot project basis.
The Chief Minister said though a sum of `261 crore had been released by his predecessor from his discretionary funds to the urban local bodies, there are some areas where very little amount had been released.