With a view to preserving and nurturing the essence of rural community life under Rurban Mission, 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 in Haryana, an official said today.
The amount was approved at a meeting held under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary D S Dhesi for Shyama Prasad Mukherji National Rurban Mission, an official spokesman said here.
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 Ambala district, Uchana Khurd in Jind district, Balla in Karnal district, Samain in Fatehabad district and Badli in Jhajjar district.
He said the Central government had sanctioned 10 clusters to be developed in the state in three phases in three years.
The aim of the scheme is to transform villages into smart villages, generate employment opportunities for locals, stop migration of villagers towards urban areas, and to provide facilities in villages on the pattern of urban cities, he said.
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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 boost investment in the villages.
The Mission aims to develop 300 such clusters all over the state.
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