Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday said the state is spending 34.5 per cent of its annual budget on infrastructure in the form of capital expenditure.
Virtually inaugurating and laying the foundation stone of 167 projects worth Rs 1882 crore to the people of the state, the CM said that every department has a fixed budget.
“However, sometimes at the end of the financial year, the budget of some departments is left and we have taken a new initiative to ensure that there is no shortage of budget for the development works. For this, a medium term expenditure framework Reserve Fund has been created,” he added.
Khattar said that taking another new initiative, Gram Darshan and Nagar Darshan portals have been started to speed up development works in villages and cities as well, on which citizens can raise their demands related to development works in their area on the portal.
The CM said that newly elected public representatives can also put forth the development demand as raised by the citizens to the government on a priority basis.
“Panchayat elections were held recently and new representatives have been elected. Now the Sarpanch will be able to get the work done at his level based on quotation up to Rs Two lakhs,” he said.
Khattar said that in the year 1990, the former Congress Prime Minister used to say that out of the one rupee, only 15 paise reaches the people. “But we are ensuring that not only a hundred percent of funds reach the people but it is fully utilised for the state’s development. For this, every welfare scheme has been brought on the IT platform. Equitable development of all the 90 Assembly Constituencies have been done while believing in the mantra of Haryana Ek Haryanvi Ek,” he said.
“After the launch of various IT-based reforms, the menace of corruption has been curbed to a large extent. Working in the spirit of Antyodaya, we have moved ahead and also tightened the noose around middlemen running their commission business. Now everyone can take advantage of government schemes through various portals launched by the State Government,” Khattar added.
