Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala on Thursday said that by the year 2023-24, 1,225 km long 475 kutcha roads spread in rural areas will be made fully paved roads at a cost of Rs. 490 crore in the state
The Deputy Chief Minister, who also holds the portfolio of Rural Development and Panchayat Department, gave this information when some villagers visited his office here with a request for paving the kutcha roads in their area.
Chautala said that the State Government has decided that all the five karam kutcha roads connecting one village to another would be paved so that farmers do not face any inconvenience in commuting and transporting their crops to their fields.
Haryana is an agricultural state where rural development is essential and national development is also not possible without the development of rural areas, he said.
The Deputy CM further said that Mahatma Gandhi had observed 'Gram-Swaraj' as the focal-point of the economic development of independent India. Despite paced urbanization, a large part of our population is still living in villages.
The State Government also wants to connect every village of the state with the internet so that the villagers can be digitally connected to the global world. At present, optical fiber cables have been laid in 6,188 villages, out of which cables have been made operational in 4,334 villages, he added.