An amount of about Rs2,861 crore has so far been spent in Haryana under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund sanctioned by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).
This was informed in a meeting of high powered committee presided over by Haryana Chief Secretary DS Dhesi on Thursday to review the progress of NABARD funded projects under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund.
The Chief Secretary was apprised that 2,031 schemes were being run by various departments under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund, and 1,602 schemes had already been completed.
Haryana Government had allocated Rs540 crore in its budget for NABARD-run schemes for the year 2015-16, of which Rs150 crore each were allocated to the Irrigation Department and Public Works (Buildings and Roads) Department, informed an official spokesperson.
The budget of Rs100 crore was set aside for the Public Health Engineering Department, Rs40 crore for the Animal Husbandry and Dairying Department, Rs53 crore for the Women and Child Development Department, Rs27 crore for the Education Department and Rs20 crore for the Food and Supply Department for the year 2015-16, he said.
It was informed in the meeting that about Rs1,202 crore have been spent under 788 schemes being run by Irrigation Department in collaboration with NABARD. A sum of Rs861 crore has been spent under 187 schemes being run under the Public Works Department.
The spokesperson said that the Women and Child Development Department has so far spent Rs110 crore for 55 schemes for construction of Aanganwadi centres and the Education Department has spent about Rs12 crore to construct toilets for girls and hand pumps in schools under 21 schemes. The Agriculture Department has spent Rs19 crore under six schemes while the Food and Supply Department has spent Rs30 crore.