To ensure quality of development works under panchayats in the State, Haryana Government has decided to carry out third party inspection for development works amounting to over `20 lakh.
Haryana Development and Panchayats Minister, OP Dhankar on Wednesday said that the financial assistance of `9,100 being given for construction of individual household latrine under ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ (Rural) has been increased to `12,000.
In order to realize the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of Swachh Bharat, the Chief Minister, Manohar lal had on November 1, 2014, launched Swachh Haryana-Swachh Bharat Campaign from Faridabad. After that, the campaign was run throughout the state from November 1 to 7, 2014, informed the Minister.
He said that a target has been set under the campaign to make the country neat and clean by the year 2019. Also, a target has been set to give individual toilets to all eligible families by year 2017-18.
A report has been prepared during four meetings of sub-group on Swachh Bharat Mission which would be helpful in making this campaign more effective, he added.
Dhankar said that the present Government has achieved 88 per cent of the target to construct individual household latrine under the Swachh Bharat Mission.
He said that solid and liquid waste management projects are being set up in villages of the State. A new scheme has been introduced for setting up of Information Technology-enabled Village Secretariats for institutionalisation of panchayats. And, there is a proposal to set up 2294 village secretariats by the year 2019, he added.