Chandigarh, March 12– Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal said that Department of Housing for All plans to construct around 20,000 houses under the affordable housing category during the year 2021-22.
The Chief Minister, who also holds Finance portfolio, disclosed this while presenting the State Budget for the year 2021-22 during the ongoing budget session of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha today.
He said that it is our collective responsibility to improve the quality of life. When we came to power in 2014, since than we are emphasizing on improving ease of living from housing, transport, environment to financial
inclusion. Resolute efforts are afoot to improve the quality of life for the
people of the state, he added.
To further boost the public transport system, the State Government has initiated the process of purchase of 800 standard non-AC buses meeting BS-VI emission norms in 2021-22. Currently, the government is operating 54 Volvo, Mercedes Super Luxury AC buses and 18 super luxury AC multi-axle buses. The fleet will be increased to 5000. In addition, the 536 buses hired under the kilometers scheme have also started plying. In addition, the Government plans to introduce 124 fully electric buses in the State on a gross cost model.
He said that the State Government has already started the process to implement Open Loop Ticketing System and GPS system on ‘Build Own, Operate and Transfer’ model with the objective to digitize manual ticketing systems. It is expected to be fully implemented by the end of June 2021.
He said that in order to provide state-of-the-art training facilities to the applicants for driving heavy motor vehicles, three Institutes of Driving Training and Research have been made functional at Kaithal, Bahadurgarh and Rohtak. Nine more such Institutes are being set up in Faridabad, Nuh, Bhiwani, Karnal, Rewari, Sonepat, Jind, Palwal and Yamuna Nagar. Besides this one Regional Driving Training Centre is being set up in Gurugram.
One Inspection and Certification centre is functional at village Kanheli in Rohtak district. This centre is catering to the fitness needs of transport vehicles of Jind, Rohtak, Panipat, Sonepat and Jhajjar districts. Six more such centres have been proposed to be set up at Ambala, Karnal, Hisar, Rewari, Faridabad and Gurugram.