Bahadurgarh (Haryana): Haryana would spend Rs 375 crore to augment the supply of drinking water and strengthen its system during the current financial year, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Monday.
Addressing public meetings at villages of Kulasi and Bamnauli in Jhajjar district, he said that apart from augmenting the supply of drinking water at 1,100 villages during the current financial year, the supply of drinking water would also be improved in 450 harijan chaupals and more than 2,000 schools.
Hooda also laid the foundation stone of a 100-bed hospital to be constructed at a cost of Rs five crore at Bahadurgarh. It would be completed in next 15 months.
Later addressing a public meeting in Bahadurgarh, Hooda announced a Trauma Centre would be set up there. A case for construction of Railway Over Bridge at Bahadurgarh has been forwarded to Railway Ministry for its approval, he said and described Bahadurgarh as gateway of Haryana.
Hooda said the government has been purchasing electricity at a rate of Rs 8 per unit and providing it to farmers at Rs 2.50 per unit.
The government has got sanctioned power projects for Jhajjar and Yamunanagar and signed agreements to purchase power from companies based in Madhya Pradesh and Chhatisgarh.
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