As many as 165 new schemes costing Rs166 crore were approved at a meeting of the Haryana State Drought Relief and Flood Control Board held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar here on Monday.
Out of these, 102 short-term schemes are targeted to be completed by June 30, 2018.
During the meeting, the Chief Minister directed all the deputy commissioners in the State and superintendent engineers of Irrigation Department to ensure speedy implementation of these schemes with the target to complete all short-term schemes in a time bound manner.
Most of the schemes are of river works, strengthening and remodelling of drains, replacement of bridges on drains, procurement of flood machinery and pumps among others.
The Chief Minister stressed to utilise the accumulated water for irrigation in some other area without wasting it in the drains. In addition, he also stressed to conserve maximum rain water during monsoon.
Finance Minister, Capt. Abhimanyu, who joined the meeting through video conference, showed his concern about the heat wave forecasted by IMD during month of April and May.
He further desired that District Administration in coordination with line departments should take all preventive measures to avoid any disastrous situation.
Additional Chief Secretary, Revenue and Disaster Management Department, Keshni Anand Arora briefed that the last year flood situation was normal except some flash floods due to concentrated rains.
Further, some of the cases of flooding of fields, due to rise of water-table were reported in the Districts of Jind, Hisar, Fatehabad.
Principal Secretary, Irrigation and Water Resources Department, Anurag Rastogi apprized that a scheme to dewater the fields of village Shakkarpura in district Fatehabad was executed successfully to reclaim the water logged fields of about 500 acres. Similar schemes have also been proposed this year.
Additional Chief Secretary, Public Works (Buildings and Roads) Department, Alok Nigam, Principal Secretary, Public Health and Engineering Department, Rajeev Arora, Principal Secretary, Town and Country Planning Department, Arun Gupta, Engineer in chief, Irrigation, Birender Singh and Deputy Commissioners of all districts and other senior officers were also present in the meeting.