Honorarium for Panchayati Raj members
Haryana chief Minister announces bonanza at party rally in Sampla
The Hindu,
Saturday, November 4, 2006.
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda On Friday announced an honorarium for members of Panchayati Raj Institutions and declared that Sampla would have a Municipal Committee.
Addressing a well-attended rally in Sampla during his visit to Hassangarh Assembly constituency, Mr. Hooda announced that members of Zila Parishads and municipal Corporations would be given an honorarium of Rs. 1,000 per month. Similarly, Block Samiti and Municipal Committee members would get Rs.500 per month and Panchayat members Rs.200 per month.
He further announced that the 174 registered gaushalas in the State would be given Rs.1 lakh each as grant.
He disclosed that his regime had prepared a scheme under which connections for drinking water in both rural and urban areas would be provided free of cost for one year. Also the scheduled Caste families would be given a water storage tank of 200 liters capacity along with one tap free of cost.
While paying tributes to the legendary late Chhotu Ram, Mr.Hooda announced that since Sampla is the birth place of the “leader of the peasantry”, a polytechnic in his name would be sat up there to enable the youth to get vocational education. Also, the Sir Chhotu Ram Museum at Sampla would be developed as a tourist complex. Mr. Hooda also announced a scheme for laying water supply and sewerage lines in Sampla town. He also sanctioned irrigation projects for enhancing the water carriage capacity of various canals.
Mr. Hooda indirectly attacked a former Chief Minister and senior Congress leader without naming him and ridiculed the “tea party” culture of this leader.
He remarked sarcastically that having “more tea in old age could spoil the appetite.”
Mr. Hooda also hit out at leaders who were opposing creation of a Special Economic Zone that he said would provide more employment avenues to the youth. While asserting that his regime would ensure that the remaining portion of the Sutlej Yamuna Link Canal was constructed in Punjab territory, he accused the late deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal and his clan of putting hurdles in the construction of the Canal.
He also thanked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi for enhancing the minimum support price of wheat.
Earlier, his son Deepender Singh Hooda, The Member of Parliament from Rohtak, addressed the rally. Other speakers included the Chief Minister’s Political Adviser Virender Singh, Meham MLA Anand Singh Dangi, Rohtak MLA Shadi Lal Batra, PCC Vice-President Chakarwarti Sharma, Salahwas MLA Anita Yadav, and District Congress President Preetam Singh Balhara.
Meanwhile, talking to newsmen, Mr.Hooda said there was no controversy relating to sealing in Haryana and encroachments were being removed from Government land on Court directions.
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