The United Kingdom today evinced a keen interest in collaboration with Haryana in the field of education, technical education, renewable energy, solid waste management, health and the Smart City Project.
A delegation led by Philip Hammond, MP Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, UK, called on Chief Minister Manohar lal here today and discussed various issues of mutual interest and expressed the desire to exchange expertise between UK and Haryana.
A Haryana government release said the Chief Minister said that Haryana has surrounded the National Capital from three sides and has huge potential for investment in almost all fields.
The release said that Philip Hammond requested Khattar to extend UK's programme of teaching assistance even in government schools of the state. On this Hammond was informed that an MoU was signed between British Council and Department of Education, Haryana for schools EQUIPS (education quality improvement pathway for schools), the release added.
As many as 100 government schools in six districts were selected for improving quality of education and teachers training. "Besides education, infrastructure, health, renewable energy, governance reforms, 'Swachh Bharat Swachh Haryana programme' is among the top priorities of the state government.
Apart from this the state government has embarked upon a new major initiative of providing IT based delivery of services. Facility of e-services would be taken upto village level by the end of this year," the CM added. It was informed in the meeting that the state government has introduced new system of e-delivery of registries in all tehsils of the state to make the process more transparent.
A citizen data base is being created in the state and all the services would be linked with it, the release said. The delegation was also informed that Haryana has commissioned 61 projects of the total capacity of 234.79 MW in the Renewable Energy Sector till now, including nine projects of 12.8 MW each of Solar MW scale power.
Khattar said the government is committed to ensuring proper waste management in the state. He said that earlier, traditional system of management of solid waste were used in the villages but after the BJP government came into power, they set up solid waste management systems at various places in the state. He welcomed the assistance from the UK in waste processing, water segregation of source and waste to energy projects.