In the pace of development, Haryana government pronounced to develop Gurgaon as Smart City with its own resources following central guidelines and technical assistance.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said,”As per the Centre’s Smart City scheme, Rs 100 crore is given in a year for five years for developing a Smart City. So we will arrange that Rs 500 crore of our own for Gurgaon. Even though we do not get central fund, we are ready to do it of our own.”
Recently, the government has announced the list of selected 98 cities under the Smart City project Karnal and Faridabad were selected from Haryana.
Khattar said, “Now there will be total three Smart Cities including those two announced by the Centre and all central guidelines for the Smart City will be followed by the state including technical assistance to develop Gurgaon as Smart City.”
He further stated that to bring transparency and eliminate corruption, the state is working on e-governance.
He also informed that all data, including land record, pension, birth certificate everything is being digitised now.
There will be about 2,500 service centres in villages across the state to help villagers.
“The last government did not do anything to strengthen the power infrastructure and because of that we are facing problems now. Everybody has to pay now for power consumption.” he added further.
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