Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday directed the officers of Public Health and Engineering Department (PHED) to complete the ongoing works in the State in a time bound manner and also send him district wise and quarter wise details of works started, on-going and those which have been completed. Presiding over a meeting of State Sanitary Board here in which Public Health Engineering Minister, Kiran Choudhry was also present, Hooda directed the officers of Power department that all the pending cases of power connection to public health tube wells in the State should be disposed off last by May 31 and thereafter, power connections to such tube wells should be issued within a month after getting demand notice from the PHED.
In the meeting, Hooda was apprised that a sum of over Rs 1,446 crore would be spent on 3,520 ongoing works during the year 2014-15. This includes over Rs 402 crore on Urban Water Supply, over Rs 410 crore on Urban Sewerage, Rs 31.72 crore on Urban Storm Water and Rs 601.20 crore on Rural Water Supply in the State.
It was informed in the meeting that 100 per cent water supply and sewerage facilities have been ensured in 12 towns out of the 14 towns of State under the Economic Stimulus Package.