The Haryana authorities on Monday authorised 795 new consuming water provide schemes on which an estimated 834 crore will likely be spent to enhance consuming water provide in city and rural areas.

The whole authorised schemes embrace 134 new city water provide and sewerage schemes value over 104 crores. These selections had been taken within the assembly of water provide and sewerage board, held below the chairmanship of chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar. An official spokesperson mentioned the assembly additionally gave monetary approval for 286 already authorised works pertaining to present monetary yr.

The officers apprised the chief minister that water provide and sewerage system in eight Mahagram villages has already been accomplished. At current, works in 29 Mahagram villages are in progress and out of those, work in 10 such villages could be accomplished by December 2023.

It was knowledgeable that to extend income assortment on operation and upkeep of city water provide and sewerage schemes within the state, payments for water provide and sewerage amenities are being despatched by way of SMS on cell phones for well timed data of shoppers. Besides, shoppers have additionally been given the choice of cost of payments by way of varied parameters and cashless choices.

It additionally emerged within the assembly that linking of water provide connections with Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) ID is below progress. “Out of 28.22 lakh connections, mapping of 25.22 lakh connections has been completed in rural areas,” the spokesperson mentioned.