DW BUREAU / Kaithal

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday said that the work to prepare yellow cards for the poor and below poverty line families in the state would commence from July one and in all, one lakh yellow cards would be distributed among such families.

Stating this while addressing a public meeting in Dhand Anaj Mandi in this district, Khattar said that being the Chief Minister of the state, it is his responsibility to maintain a direct dialogue with the people and in the same series, Mukhyamantri se Seedhi Baat programme has been started from Pundri Assembly segment on Friday. He said that under this programme, he would also interact with public representatives and besides redressing their grievances, suggestions would also be sought from them.

While maintaining a direct dialogue with the people, the Chief Minister said that people have seen many governments during the last 48 years and they all are well aware as what is right and what is wrong. He said that free gas connections are being provided to the families in the state under the Ujawala scheme. The aim of the state government is to provide gas connection to every household to

avoid any inconvenience to the mothers and sisters while cooking.

He assured that those families who did not have gas connection would be provided the same within 48 hours. He said that the present state government has so far issued three lakh gas connections of which two lakh connections have been issued to BPL families and one lakh to above poverty line families. Referring to the ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ programme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Panipat in Haryana, the Chief Minister said that the sex ratio in the state was 850 girls per 1000 boys in 2015 which has been increased to 915 girls per 1000 boys in 2018.

He said that the state government has been successful in keeping a tab on corruption by way of implementing various online services. A target has been fixed to provide housing

facility to all by the year 2022, he added.

Khattar said that he has so far made 4800 announcements concerning various development works out of which work on 3300 announcements have been completed.

(editor@dailyworld.in)