Pitching for green, eco-friendly, energy efficient and earthquake resistant buildings, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Thursday called for adopting ultra-modern technologies like prefab structures, rainwater harvesting, green roof top, solar energy to create such infrastructure in the country.
The Chief Minister was addressing the delegates after inaugurating two-day ‘6th All India Police Housing Conference’ being organized by Haryana Police Housing Corporation (HPHC) in association with Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), New Delhi in Panchkula near here.
HPHC has, for the first time, hosted a national conference which was attended by Heads of State Police Housing Corporations, Engineers, Architects, technical and other experts.
Manohar Lal, while addressing the delegates said that land is limited thus we also need to go towards the concept of high rise buildings to provide modern low cost quality infrastructure to all including police personnel. The eminence deliberations on various technical and other aspects in today’s conference would go a long way relating to create such infrastructure in the country, he said.
The Chief Minister said that State Government is fully committed to make Haryana police as country’s leading police force. All kind of financial assistance and other resources would be provided to the State Police in this direction.
Assistance of Rs 550 crore through HUDCO has been sanctioned for construction of about 3000 houses for police personnel, he added.
Apart from implementation of uniform building code, a provision of e-auction of commercial sites, subsidy on solar system and approval of building plan within five-days had been made. In addition, water harvesting system has been made mandatory in large size plots of Haryana Shahri Vikas Pradhikaran, the Chief Minister said.
Describing police as the face of the government, Manohar Lal said that their performance depicts the behavior and working style of any organization.
He said that a number of decisions have been taken to support and encourage police personnel to deliver better such as a weekly off, opening of 29 women police stations, enhancement of ex-gratia from Rs10 lakh to Rs30 lakh. Besides, transparent recruitment process had been adopted in police recruitment. About 4500 constables have already been recruited whereas process had been initiated to recruit 5000 more, he added.
Director General of Police, BS Sandhu said that HPHC has been working to provide a better living and working conditions to the members of police force.
Recalling his five years tenure in HPHC, he said that the Corporation has spent Rs1600 crore during last six years whereas merely Rs 800 crore were spent from year 1990 to 2012. The present government has provided Rs 550 crore to the corporation to undertake construction works.
An ultra-modern office building of Commissioner of Police had been built with Rs 35 crore in Gurugram. We are providing all kinds of facilities in new police lines. Also, 22 Police Public Schools have been opened in all police lines where about 16000 students are getting quality education, he added.