Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khatter addressing a gathering at Karnal announced developmental projects for amount worth Rs 2038 crore in Haryana which included proposal for developing 34000 Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises (MSME) in the state, which will not only bring prosperity but also create sources of employment opportunities for nearly three lakh youths in the state. Khatter said, out of total amount of budget worth Rs 2038 crore to be spent over developments more than one third amount, about 40.34% will be spent on reforms in basic necessities in industry, education, health, security and other important sectors to create infrastructure in the state,
Chief Minister said, among nearly 175 developmental programs in the state on which amount worth Rs 2038 crore has to be spent apart from prime proposal for developing 14000 MSME units in the state, there is a future vision for developments in education, health, security, employment and other sectors for the welfare of residents in the state. Information reveals, this is the fifth occasion in Manohar government rule in the state such a large number of developmental schemes have been announced in Haryana state.
Pointing at the recent incident of demolishing of two towers at Noida, Khatter expressed deep regrets over issues as regard fast increasing prices of all essential commodities and increase in corruption in government offices as well as private sectors for which Haryana state government has launched Quality Control Authority in the state to have a check over all on-going government projects, corruption there in enabling corrupts to be punished.
While talking to media persons Chief Minister expressed deep concern over fast increasing corruption in our system since past many years for which decision has been taken to introduce Quality Control Authority to have surprise checks by raiding teams and to bring transparency in all government projects as such decision taken now all government tenders will be invited on line under a transparent process to avoid corrupt practices in government as well as private sectors and those found involved in corrupt cases will have to face action by State Vigilance Bureau (SVB) and criminal case will be registered against them. Information reveals, large number of corruption cases of value worth hundreds crores of rupees were detected in Haryana state in past sometime in which officers of PWD (B&R) supervising construction projects released payment to the contractors without receipt of construction material through fake bills or without getting construction work done and all such projects are yet hanging on fire incomplete.
Director General State Vigilance Bureau Shatrujit Kapoor told that on the instruction by Chief Minister large numbers of irregularities were observed during investigation and SVB teams found 15 class-I officers, 10 class-II officers, 23 class-III officers, 48 government employees, 12 employees working in private sectors were found involved in corrupt practices and cases registered against them. He told that departmental action has been advised in case of few gazetted officers also. Kapoor further told that during investigation it was observed that officers and staff of Municipal Corporation, Engineering, Pollution Control, Tehsil, Electricity, Khadi Gram Udyog and above all police departments were found involved in corruption cases.
