A day after an RTI query revealed the bias approach of Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar, who announced maximum number of 98 projects in his constituency Karnal during past one year, the Chief Minister has clarified that no discrimination is being made against any region in terms of development
Under attack from the opposition after RTI revelations, the Chief Minister on Thursday accused the Opposition of making baseless allegations on the issue of development just to remain in the headlines.
He added that it is for the first time in the history of Haryana that a sum of Rs 5 crore is being given to every legislator, irrespective of the party he belongs to. All that he has to do is to send draft of the development projects to the government.
The Chief Minister also dismissed the allegation that maximum announcements were made for Karnal district as totally baseless and said that in real terms, some of the announcements made in Karnal would benefit the people of the entire state.
The BJP led State Government also released the amount spent in implementing various projects in the various districts.
Notably, an RTI query sought to know number of announcements made by BJP Government in the state in the past one year has revealed that a total of 889 announcements were made from October 25, 2014 to October 10, 2015 by the Haryana Government, out of which a maximum of 98 were made for Karnal, the home constituency of Chief Minister.
Out of maximum 98 announcements made in Karnal by BJP led Haryana Government, 23 have been commissioned, 29 are in progress, 43 are pending and 3 are found not feasible.
“Out of the total 889 announcements of projects or schemes, only 91 have been commissioned till October 10, 2015 while 465 are pending. As many as 315 announcements are pending while 18 have been found not feasible to be implemented in the state,” revealed the RTI query.
least number of announcements i.e 9 were made for backward district Mewat and Panchkula each. 11 announcements were made for Jhajjar district followed by 12 in Sonipat, 15 in Hisar and 26 in Palwal.