Haryana Chief Secretary Dr. Vivek Joshi chaired the 4th State High Powered Steering Committee (SHPSC) Meeting for successful implementation of Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation 2.0 (AMRUT 2.0) here today. During the meeting, it was informed that under the State Water Action Plan (SWAP-I) of AMRUT 2.0, 57 projects costing Rs 1727.36 crore have been approved, which includes 48 projects of water supply and 9 projects of sewerage spanning over 50 towns of the state.
Out of these, in 53 projects, work has already been commenced & the remaining are under tendering process. The Chief Secretary directed officials of the Public Health Engineering Department to involve local communities and take their consultation before implementing a project.
He also stressed on developing a mechanism for taking feedback of the projects already implemented. For this, the concerned Deputy Commissioners and municipal bodies can also be involved. The meeting was informed that a fund of Rs 1.17 lakh per town was also being utilised for IEC and awareness campaigns in schools and training of youth on water conservation and management in 24 towns of Haryana in the first phase.
Also, under the AMRUT Mitra ‘Involving Women SHGs’ campaign, 13 projects for activities like sample collection for water quality testing, leakage detection, insanitary connection identification are being carried out in 13 towns of Haryana for better water management. Also, 41 new projects covering 32 towns of Haryana shall also be allotted to SHGs in due course.
The State High Powered Steering Committee (SHPSC) has approved total 66 projects costing 6,713.13 crore, under SWAP-II of AMRUT 2.0 consisting of 58 water supply and sewerage projects costing Rs 6,715.55 crore and 8 reuse of treated wastewater projects in urban areas costing Rs 15.58 crore.
The steering committee also approved State Action Plan (SAP) for formulation GIS based master plans of Class-II towns with population of 50,000-99,999 under the State Action Plan (SAP) for 11 towns of Haryana. This sub scheme will be in line with AMRUT GIS sub-scheme and will comprise three major components i.e. geo-database creation, formulation of GIS based master plans and capacity building.
Additional Chief Secretary, Finance and Planning, Sh. Anurag Rastogi, Additional Chief Secretary, Town & Country Planning and Urban Estates, Sh. Apoorva Kumar Singh, Commissioner & Secretary, Public Health Engineering, Mohammed Shayin and other senior officers were present on the occasion.