Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday went on an inauguration spree and dedicated 167 public welfare projects costing more than Rs. 1882 crore related to Education, Health, Water, Power, strengthening Road Connectivity etc to people of the State.
At the State Level Programme held at village Dhanwapur, Gurugram, he virtually inaugurated 113 projects worth more than Rs. 791 crore and laid the foundation stone of 54 projects costing around Rs. 1090 crore.
The list of 4 key projects inaugurated by the Chief Minister includes the augmentation drinking water supply scheme in quality-affected 84 villages of Prithla and Palwal Block, district Palwal and Ballabgarh Block of district Faridabad by the construction of Ranney Well and Deep Tubewell in village Mohna and augmentation Canal Based W/s Scheme for 25 villages of Satnali Block, Mahendragarh. Besides this, the Chief Minister also inaugurated the flyover constructed at Sheela Chowk on the intersection of Delhi Hisar road with RKDB road and the construction of the bridge on JLN Feeder and BSB Canal on RKDB road, district Rohtak and RoB on Bhiwani-Hansi road to Tosham Byepass Road, district Bhiwani.
The Chief Minister also laid the foundation stone of the 8 key projects including the construction of the State’s first Haryana International Habitat Centre (Art, Culture & Innovative Centre), Sector 1, Panchkula (Chandimandir), construction of 4 lanning of RaiMalikpur (Rajasthan Border) Nangal Chaudhary-Narnaul Mahendragarh Dadri Road, construction of the new building of Government College, Israna, Panipat and construction of HL Bridge, SYL and Narwana Br. Canals on Karnal Kachhwa Sambli Kaul road, district Karnal. Besides this, the foundation stones of rejuvenation of Badkhal Lake, the project covering Jhajjar link drain with RCC Box with retaining wall, treatment of wastewater by constructing 15 MLD decentralized Waste Water Treatment Plant on EPC model at Sector-25, Ballabgarh, Faridabad and augmentation of water supply scheme and providing sewerage system, village Madlauda, district Panipat was also laid.
Mahendragarh got 3 projects costing around Rs. 421.42 crore, while Palwal got 9 projects worth Rs. 187 crore, Gurugram got 11 projects worth Rs. 168.36 and Faridabad 8 got projects worth Rs. 143 crore.
Similarly, Ambala got 4 projects costing around Rs. 15.57 crore, Bhiwani got 4 projects costing around Rs. 31.45 crore, Charkhi Dadri got 2 projects costing Rs. 2 crore, Fatehabad got 7 projects costing Rs. 2.31 crore, Hisar got 2 projects costing Rs. 5.65 crore, Jhajjar got 23 projects costing Rs. 371 crore and Jind got 4 projects costing Rs. 22.76 crore.
Meanwhile, Kaithal got 1 project costing Rs. 1.19 crore, Karnal got 17 projects costing Rs.74 crore, Kurukshetra got 4 projects costing Rs. 1.50 crore, Nuh got 12 projects costing Rs. 37.36 crore, Panchkula got 3 projects costing Rs. 105.67 crore.
Panipat got 14 projects costing Rs.76 crore, Rewari got 6 projects costing Rs. 35.42 crore, Rohtak got 4 projects costing Rs. 86.40 crore, Sirsa got 12 projects costing Rs. 12.24 crore, Sonipat got 5 projects costing Rs 22.56 crore and Yamunanagar got 12 projects costing Rs. 57.50 crore.
34.5 per cent of the budget allocation is spent on infrastructure: CM
While inaugurating and laying the foundation stone of the projects, the Chief Minister said that it has always been his endeavour to empower the public representatives.
“As Finance Minister, we have done budget allocation very carefully. I can proudly say that today 34.5 percent of our budget is being spent on infrastructure in the form of capital expenditure,” said Khattar.
He said that every department has a fixed budget. However, sometimes at the end of the financial year, the budget of some departments is left and we have taken a new initiative to ensure that there is no shortage of budget for development works. For this, a Medium Term Expenditure Framework Reserve Fund has been created.
Similarly, taking another new initiative, Gram Darshan and Nagar Darshan portals have been started to speed up development works in villages and cities as well, on which citizens can raise their demands related to development works in their area on the portal, said the Chief Minister.
He said that newly elected public representatives can also put forth the development demand as raised by the citizens to the government on a priority basis. “Panchayat elections were held recently and new representatives have been elected. Now the Sarpanch will be able to get the work done at his level based on quotation up to Rs. 2 lakhs,” said Khattar.
Inspects STP in Dhawanpur village
The Chief Minister also inspected the 50 MLD Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) at Dhanwapur village in Gurugram district and checked the biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) level of the treated water; which came out to be 3. He said that the reuse of treated water is an important step in the direction of water resources. According to experts, if the BOD level of sewerage water comes below 10 after tertiary treatment; then that treated water can be used for irrigation and in industries.
Chief Executive Officer, Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA), Sudhir Rajpal informed the Chief Minister that sewerage treatment plants of 388 MLD capacity have been set up in villages Dhanwapur and Baharampur in Gurugram district. Of these, three plants of 50 MLD, 68 MLD and 100 MLD capacity are in Dhanwapur village and two plants of 50 MLD and 120 MLD are in Baharampur village. The 50 MLD and 68 MLD plants of Dhanwapur are equipped with 100 percent tertiary treatment facility, while the 100 MLD plant is currently connected with 25 MLD tertiary treatment facility and tenders have been floated to connect the remaining 75 MLD with this facility.
Similarly, the capacity of both the plants in Baharampur village is 170 MLD, out of which tertiary treatment facility is available on 80 MLD and tenders have been invited to connect the remaining 90 MLD with this facility.