Haryana Industries Minister Captain Abhimanyu today said a common facility centre for plywood industry will be built at an estimated cost of Rs 16.87 crore with assistance from the Centre and Indian Plywood Industries Research and Training Institute, Bengaluru.
The facility centre will be helpful for about 100 plywood industrial units in district Yamunanagar.
The Industries Minister was replying to a question by MLA, Ghanshyam Dass, during the Haryana Vidhan Sabha Session here today.
He informed the House that under the Enterprises Promotion Policy-2015, emphasis had been laid on the development of micro, small and medium industries, which included the plywood industry of Yamunanagar.
While the Central Government provides assistance of 70 per cent for development of common facility centre, under this policy, the State Government's share has been increased from 10 per cent to 20 per cent.
He said the share of industries for establishing joint ventures with the objective of arranging raw material from surrounding areas, has been fixed at 10 per cent.
He said that a report regarding the plywood industry of Yamunanagar had been prepared. He said that Poplar could be brought in from part of Uttar Pradesh bordering the district.
Reiterating that the State Government was laying emphasis on modernisation of the plywood industry of Yamunanagar, the Minister informed the House that these units met 50 per cent of the total demand of the country.
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij said the government hospital at Dabwali in district Sirsa is being upgraded as a 100 bedded hospital. The Department has already given its approval on December 1, 2015.
Vij was replying to a question during the ongoing session of Haryana Vidhan Sabha here today. He said after the upgradation of the hospital, the people of Sirsa, Dabwali and adjoining areas would be benefitted and they would not have to visit hospitals in Rajasthan, especially Bikaner and Jaipur for treatment.
He said the state government is dealing with the problem of shortage of doctors in Primary Health Centers (PHCs), Community Health Centers (CHCs) and all hospitals.
Therefore, one medical officer, one Ayurvedic medical officer and one dental doctor would soon be posted in all PHCs in rural areas.
The Health Department has now also granted permission to Ayurvedic doctors to prescribe allopathic medicines so as to benefit the patients.
Vij said Biometric Attendance System would be installed in all hospitals to ensure the presence of doctors and para-medical staff. This would end complaints of patients regarding absence of doctors.
Haryana Development and Panchayats Minister, O P Dhankar,
said Rs 10,024.38 lakh have been spent on construction of Individual Household Latrines (IHL) in the rural areas of all 21 districts under the 'Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin)' from October, 2014 to March 10,2016.
A target has been set to construct more than 4.22 lakh IHL units in the rural areas by October 2, 2019, under Prime Minister, Narendra Modi's 'Swachh Bharat Mission'.
The Minister was replying to a question by INLD MLA, Zakir Hussain.
The Minister informed the House that 2,29,574 IHLs had been constructed by people at their own cost. He said that presently, more than 80,000 households did not have IHL units.
Replying to a supplementary question about alleged fraud in construction of IHLs in Mewat, Dhankar assured the House that departmental inquiry would be conducted and baseline survey would again be conducted. If required, the government would consider getting a probe conducted by the State Vigilance Bureau, he added.
Haryana Transport Minister Krishan Lal Panwar, said that demand for power in the State during summer was between 7,000 and 9,000 MW, and in winter it was between 3,000 and 6,300 MW. Presently, the State has availability of 10,082.83MW power from all sources, he added.
Panwar was replying to a question on behalf of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, raised by MLA, Balwan Singh Daulatpuria.
He also tabled a statement regarding 6,294.78MW being purchased by Haryana from 46 companies.
Panwar informed the House that the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission fixed the power tariffs every year by adopting the process of public hearing.
He said Rs 6,438.55 crore, including principal and surcharge, were pending against defaulters of Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam till December, 2015.
The Minister informed the House that for recovery of outstanding amount in rural areas, it was decided that principal amount of the old arrears would be recovered from the consumers in five regular installments along with current bills. After paying the last bill and installment, the entire surcharge amount would be waived off, he added.
He said that the State Government had implemented the 'Mhara Gaon Jagmag Gaon' scheme on 83 feeders, which has now been extended to cover 260 feeders. Many consumers came forward to pay their arrears after the implementation of this scheme, he added.
Meanwhile, Haryana Assembly today passed Haryana Appropriation (No.1) Bill , 2016 to authorize payment and appropriation of Rs 18143,53,32,000 from and out of the Consolidated Fund of the state of Haryana.
This Bill was introduced for the appropriation out of the Consolidated Fund of Haryana of the sums required to meet supplementary grants made by Legislative Assembly for expenditure for 2015-16.
