Haryana Government is chalking out a policy to provide affordable housing facility to the people in the State and to ensure planned development in order to check the mushrooming of unauthorised colonies. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Monday said that the State Government is actively working on such policy and he has also approved the project estimates amounting to Rs237.07 crores for various development works to be executed in different urban estates of the State.
While presiding over a meeting of Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) here, the Chief Minister said that out of the total, Rs94.88 crores would be incurred at Panipat, Rs42.83 crore at Gurgaon, Rs12.90 crores for Panchkula, Rs10.30 crores for Pinjore Kalka Urban Complex, Rs19.31 crore for Taraori (Karnal), Rs32.22 crore for Kurukshetra, Rs12.50 crore for Safidon (Jind) and Rs12.13 crores for Roz-ka-Meo (Mewat).
While a sum of Rs49.63 crore will be incurred on the construction of Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) for 30 MlD capacity and providing external sewerage scheme for various sectors for zone-II Urban Estate Panipat, Rs45.25 crores will be spent on the construction of second unit of Combined Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) of 21 MlD capacity for dyeing unit in Sector-29, Part II, Panipat. Similarly, Rs32.22 crore would be spent on the construction of RCC rectangular open drain paralled to Saraswati creek for sewerage water from disposal work at Sector -13, Urban Estate, Kurukhetra and from Public Health STP point to Syphon Narwana Branch Jyotisar.
The Chief Minister also directed the officers to maintain quality standards while executing all the construction work. Meanwhile, Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has implemented the Property and Plot Management System under which about three lakh allottees in urban estates of the state has been provided unique ID and Password to enable them check their property status online.
The Chief Minister who is also the chairman of HUDA said that a new policy for allotment of land to institutional, charitable and other societies would be framed so that the policy could serve the actual purpose as to which spirit they have been prepared. He said that land for setting up of institutional sites in high potential zones should be given through auction and rest of the area the same should be allotted as per existing policy on subsidised rates. “Besides, the adequate infrastructure support should also be provided for remote areas. We are for the welfare of people thus there is need to bring fundamental changes in the system so as to facilitate the masses. All policies should be framed keeping in view the people's interest” , he added.