Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched three new schemes for Haryana, declared seven rural districts of the state open defecation free (ODF), eight districts “Kerosene Free” and also, released the commemorative postage stamp of the state.
While inaugurating the year-long Haryana Swarna Jayanti celebrations from Gurugram, the Prime Minister launched ‘Deen Dayal Jan Awas Yojana’, ‘Automation of Fair Price Shops’ and ‘Kerosene Free’ Haryana in the presence of Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki, Chief Minister Manohar lal and state Cabinet Ministers.
The eight districts declared "Kerosene Free” from November 1 included Ambala, Gurugram, Jhajjar, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Panipat, Panchkula and Yamuna Nagar.
The seven rural districts declared ODF are Gurugram, Fatehabad, Faridabad, Yamunanagar, Panchkula, Sirsa and Panipat.
Modi also honoured four Deputy Commissioners and three Additional Deputy Commissioners of these districts in recognition of their performance. These included Deputy Commissioner, Faridabad Chandershekhar, Deputy Commissioner Yamunanagar SS Phulia, Deputy Commissioner, Fatehabad NK Solanki, Deputy Commissioner Gurgaon Tl Satyaprakash, Addtional Deputy Commisioner, Panchkula Hema Sharma, Additional Deputy Commissioner Sirsa Ajay Singh Tomar and Additional Deputy Commissioner Panipat Rajiv Mehta.
Deen Dayal Jan Awas Yojana
The ‘Deen Dayal Jan Awas Yojana’ aims to put a check on the development of unauthorised colonies and simultaneously achieve the target of ‘Housing for All-2022’ at reasonable rates in small and medium potential towns. It also aims at providing small plots to accommodate maximum number of people in the limited area in the medium and low potential towns of the state.
These colonies are proposed to be developed over 5 to 15 acres and the saleable area is permissible to the extent of 65 per cent of the licenced area. To encourage the development of such colonies by private colonizers, the rates of licence fee and external development charges have been substantially reduced, while the conversion charges and Infrastructure Development Charges have been waived off.
Automation of Fair Price Shops
Automation of the Fair Price Shops (FPS) which forms part of the IT solution involves provisioning of Point of Sale (POS) device at every fair price shop with connectivity to ensure Aadhaar-based biometric identification of the beneficiaries and online transactions of food grains and other commodities. With the launch of Automation of FPS, as many as 9,352 FPS all over the state will be equipped with POS devices and pave the way for Aadhaar-based biometric identification of beneficiaries and online transaction of disbursement of commodities. This system will help root out corruption from TPDS and shall benefit 29.30 lakh poor families and 1.32 crore beneficiaries in the state.
Through appropriate software, the POS device is integrated with Aadhaar database and e-PDS which captures every transaction in FPS on real time basis. The system also provides SMS alert to concerned beneficiaries when ration is dispatched from godowns as also at the time of POS transaction at FPS.
Kerosene-Free Haryana
With coverage of the remaining six lakh families out of the 11.05 lakh BPl families under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjawala Yojna (PMUY), Haryana is well on way to becoming kerosene free and shall be the first major state to achieve this distinction. Five lakh such families have already been provided lPG connections under the scheme. Haryana has set the target to become Kerosene Free by March 31, 2017.
It has been decided to hold at least one camp in every village for releasing lPG connections. All the 2,943 villages in 8 kerosene free districts have been covered with at least one camp, and people have been informed and exhorted to obtain lPG connection so that they don’t suffer any hardship on account of discontinuation of supply of kerosene oil to them.
Out of the 3,75,642 BPl families in these districts, about, 2,75,000 have already been provided with lPG connections, and the remaining families have been advised to approach the nearest dealer.