Rs 586 cr approved for development of five clusters

With a view to preserving and nurturing the essence of rural community life under National Rurban Mission (NRM), a sum of Rs 586 crore has been approved for overall development of five clusters of towns in the districts of Ambala, Jind, Karnal, Fatehabad and Jhajjar.

The amount was approved at a meeting held under the chairmanship of Haryana Chief Secretary, DS Dhesi, for Shyama Prasad Mukherji National Rurban Mission, said an official spokesman.

The money will be spent on providing economic activities, developing skills and local entrepreneurship, infrastructure amenities in the five clusters of towns in the first phase. These include Barara in district Ambala, Uchana Khurd in Jind, Balla in Karnal, Samain in Fatehabad and Badli in Jhajjar, said he.

He said the Central Government had sanctioned ten clusters to be developed in the state in three phases in three years. The aim of the mission is to transform villages into smart villages, generate employment opportunities for local people, stop migration of villagers towards urban areas, and to provide facilities in villages on the pattern of urban cities, the spokesman said,

He said that the mission also aims at providing skill development training, agricultural processing, agriculture services and warehousing, mobile health unit, schools, clean drinking water supply, street lighting, connecting roads, digital literacy, e-gram and setting up of services centre in the villages.

In addition, emphasis would be on solid residual management, skill development and strengthening of IT arrangements in  selected villages. It would also boost investment in the villages.  The Mission aims to develop 300 such clusters all over the state, he added.