Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal has approved a sum of Rs117.83 crore for augmentation of water supply and sewerage facilities in Hansi, Sirsa and Fatehabad towns under Economic Stimulus Package.
A spokesman of Haryana Public Health Engineering Department on Monday said that out of the total, Rs31.33 crore had been approved for improving water supply and laying of sewerage line in Hansi while Sirsa town got Rs80.90 crore for the similar facilities. The department would incur Rs5.60 crore for the same in Fatehabad town.
He said that there would be no dearth of funds for the overall development as the State Government is committed to provide basic facilities to all people.
The spokesman said that Public Health Engineering Department has launched a special campaign for providing private drinking water connections in rural households. Out of 30.45 lakh households, about 16.68 lakh have so far been provided with drinking water connections. This campaign would remain continue till all households were provided with private drinking water connections.
He said that a special campaign has also been launched in the towns under which connections for drinking water and sewerage are being checked and new connections are also provided. This campaign has been launched in 61 towns so far under which over 6.52 lakh households have been surveyed and 90,259 drinking water connections and over 1.47 lakh sewer connections have been released. As a result of this campaign, the shortcomings like leakages, obstruction in sewerage, installation of ball cocks on water tanks and rectification of insanitary connections are being removed.
He also informed that government had also implemented e-tendering for works costing Rupees two lakh or more, which was Rupees five lakh in the previous government regime. In order to ensure drinking water facilities in addition to transparency, field functionaries have been asked to increase visits on different water works or villages.
During the tenure of present government, 58 canal based and 15 tubewell based water works have been commissioned in rural and urban areas. In addition, 277 tubewells and 150 boosting stations have been commissioned in rural and urban areas. As many as 12 Sewerage Treatment Plants at Pinjore, Kalka, Ratia, Barwala, Jhajjar, Chhachrouli, Tosham, Uchana, Punhana, Nuh, Rewari and Gohana have also been commissioned, added he.
The spokesman said that a new web based online monitoring module called Established Monitoring System had also been developed which is available on website of the department. The running of STPs and other installations are being monitored through this module, he added.