The survey to lay a Railway line in district Mewat has been completed and Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has sent a written communication to the Railways Department stating that the State Government would bear half of the cost of this project.
This was stated by Haryana Transport Minister, Aftab Ahmed while talking to the mediapersons at Nuh in district Mewat on Sunday. He said that as the project to lay a Railway line in Mewat has already been approved, the process to acquire land for the same would soon commence. The Minister said that a rail corridor would also be developed in Taoru.
In reply to a question concerning Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) expressway, the Minister said that 87 per cent work of the expressway from Palwal to Manesar has already been completed. However, the issue of KMP is in the court and after the decision, the work to complete it, would soon commence.
He said that projects and schemes involving an investment of over Rs 3,000 crore have commenced from January 1, 2014 as announced by Chief Minister at Gohana rally recently. These would benefit more than 50 lakh people in the state. The Chief Minister has got development works, costing Rs 4,000 crore, done in Mewat.
The Minister further said that a Rs 450.97 crore Shaheed Hasan Khan Medical College has been set up in Mewat. With a view to promote education in Mewat, a separate cadre of teachers has been set up and teachers were being recruited under it. To promote technical education in the district, eight ITIs and two polytechnics were being set up. Classes of DIET have already commenced at Nagina and Malab, he said.
“Soon, a sub centre of Maulana Azad National University would also be established in the area. The Government has given exemption in bus fare to girl students studying in Government aided schools so as to facilitate them in attending their schools, he added. In reply to a question concerning mining in the district, he said the issue of mining is under the consideration of Supreme Court. The Government would make efforts to get the ban on mining lifted so that the development works are not affected.