Taking serious note of the issue regarding depletion of water levels within and nearby areas of mining sites in the State, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday directed the officers concerned to install Piezometers at the mining sites to determine the status of the groundwater table.
The Chief Minister said that as mining can deplete surface and groundwater supplies and because of the depleting water table within and nearby areas of mining sites, the possibility of illegal extraction of mining material increases. Hence to keep a check on this, Piezometers should be installed at the mining sites.
Khattar gave these directions while presiding over the State Level DISHA Committee Meeting held in Chandigarh.
He directed the Deputy Commissioners to ensure that the maintenance of all the roads within the radius of 5 kilometers of any mining site is done by the concerned miners. They should prepare a proposal regarding the same as per the District Mineral Foundation Rules, 2017, added Khattar.
The CM said that the present State Government has made concentrated efforts to keep a check on the school dropouts so as to ensure that no student should be deprived of education due to any reason. Now taking this commitment further the State Education Department will be implementing a new system of age-wise tracking of every student in the age group of 5 to 18 years, he said.
Under this system, the children in the above said age group who are registered in the Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) data would be tracked by the Education Department so that real-time information about all such children can be collected and the actual status of the school dropout rate can be determined. The CM said that the Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme should be linked with Mukhyamantri Antyodaya Parivar Utthan Yojana so that eligible families have more self-employment opportunities.
Khattar said that the Power Department should explore possibilities of giving power connections to all the houses in the one-kilometer radius from Lal Dora.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister was apprised that there is 100 percent electrification in the State. Who-so-ever has come for electricity connections; the department has provided the same as per the requirement of the applicant.
Khattar directed the Deputy Commissioner to hold regular meetings of district level Disha Committees so that every important issue raised during these meetings would be tabled in the State level Disha committee so that any kind of problem being faced in the districts can be discussed immediately.
Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal, Chief Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, DS Dhesi, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister V Umashankar, Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Dr. Amit Agrawal, Additional Principal Secretary-II to Chief Minister and all the Administrative Secretaries of the Concerned Departments were present in the meeting.