Haryana Urban local Bodies Minister Kavita Jain on Wednesday said that the State High Powered Sanctioning Committee has approved detailed project reports amounting to Rs 1,213.19 crore for eight towns in the State.
The towns included Ambala, Gurugram, Karnal, Panchkula, Sonepat, Panipat, Thanesar and Yamunanagar, under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT).
The Minister was presiding over a review meeting of Urban local Bodies Department here.
During the meeting, it was informed that directions have been issued for preparing Detailed Project Reports for nine towns including Hisar, Rohtak, Kaithal, Rewari, Bhiwani, Bahadurgarh, Palwal, Sirsa and Jind.
She also issued directions to install CCTV cameras in all 80 Urban local Bodies in the State according to norms prescribed by the State Government.
Jain also asked the urban local bodies to prepare within 15 days proposals for replacing CFl bulbs in streetlights with lED bulbs in all cities. She further directed to accelerate the pace of implementation of sterilisation programme to tackle the menace of monkeys and stray animals.
The Minister said that standard tender document for the survey of properties for GIS mapping had already been circulated among all Municipal Corporations. All Municipal Corporations have been given the power to get the survey of the properties done at their own level, she said. Referring to provision of Wi-Fi facility in all urban local bodies in the state, she directed to study the system for providing Wi-Fi facility of Reliance Jio being implemented by Education Department in schools and colleges.