ishwarlamba
Member
Our Jatland Mr Deepender Hooda has done a very big job and kept his word.
Congratulations Deepender beta, please keep working like this. In this project Haryana Govt is contributing 10% of the state budget.
regards
Ishwar Lamba
here is the news item
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060217/haryana.htm
Rohtak-Jhajjar-Rewari rail track approved
Tribune News Service
Rohtak, February 16
The Railway Ministry has sanctioned the laying of the Rohtak-Jhajjar-Rewari rail line costing Rs 215 crore. The new link is critical for development of Southern Haryana which is one of the most backward districts of Haryana.
In a letter to local Congress MP Deepender Singh Hooda, the ministry has communicated that the project will be completed in three years and that the provision for funds will be made in the Rail budget for 2006-2007 due to be presented shortly.
Mr Hooda told The Tribune on the telephone from Delhi that the Railways had accepted the proposal for this link “in principle” in 2004 after his father Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda who was the then MP from Rohtak submitted it. However, he said, when no funds were forthcoming he approached the ministry a few months ago and learnt that there were about 5000 such proposals pending, most of them for over 20 years.
He said he found that the Railways had been allocating only token funds for some of these projects. His enquiries also revealed that the ministry was sanctioning funds only for those links which had commercial use.
Thereafter, he sent a communication to the ministry detailing the commercial viability and its benefits to Haryana since Rewari was the emerging commercial hub of the state.
Mr Hooda said even after that there were several hurdles in the way of financial sanction. However, he came across a clause in the Planning Commission’s guidelines for such projects which provided for sanctioning of funds for the project provided the state made a matching contribution.
He said a few projects had been funded in this manner in Karnataka and Jharkhand. Making use of this clause, he succeeded in getting the project sanctioned.
The Haryana government has already agreed to meet half of the cost of the link coming to Rs 107.50 crore, Mr Hooda said.
He said the ministry would invest Rs 30 crore in the project in the next fiscal and the project would be completed by March 2009. Thus far manufacturers had been routing their goods to southern Haryana areas via Delhi. This led to delays and raised the costs substantially.
After the project was completed industries would be able to send their produce directly to Rewari and beyond to Rajasthan, he added.
On the passenger side, travellers from Chandigarh and Haryana towns located on the National Highway No. 1 and headed for Delhi, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Mumbai would be benefited.
Mr Hooda said the cost of the project was around 10 per cent of the annual state budget.
Congratulations Deepender beta, please keep working like this. In this project Haryana Govt is contributing 10% of the state budget.
regards
Ishwar Lamba
here is the news item
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060217/haryana.htm
Rohtak-Jhajjar-Rewari rail track approved
Tribune News Service
Rohtak, February 16
The Railway Ministry has sanctioned the laying of the Rohtak-Jhajjar-Rewari rail line costing Rs 215 crore. The new link is critical for development of Southern Haryana which is one of the most backward districts of Haryana.
In a letter to local Congress MP Deepender Singh Hooda, the ministry has communicated that the project will be completed in three years and that the provision for funds will be made in the Rail budget for 2006-2007 due to be presented shortly.
Mr Hooda told The Tribune on the telephone from Delhi that the Railways had accepted the proposal for this link “in principle” in 2004 after his father Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda who was the then MP from Rohtak submitted it. However, he said, when no funds were forthcoming he approached the ministry a few months ago and learnt that there were about 5000 such proposals pending, most of them for over 20 years.
He said he found that the Railways had been allocating only token funds for some of these projects. His enquiries also revealed that the ministry was sanctioning funds only for those links which had commercial use.
Thereafter, he sent a communication to the ministry detailing the commercial viability and its benefits to Haryana since Rewari was the emerging commercial hub of the state.
Mr Hooda said even after that there were several hurdles in the way of financial sanction. However, he came across a clause in the Planning Commission’s guidelines for such projects which provided for sanctioning of funds for the project provided the state made a matching contribution.
He said a few projects had been funded in this manner in Karnataka and Jharkhand. Making use of this clause, he succeeded in getting the project sanctioned.
The Haryana government has already agreed to meet half of the cost of the link coming to Rs 107.50 crore, Mr Hooda said.
He said the ministry would invest Rs 30 crore in the project in the next fiscal and the project would be completed by March 2009. Thus far manufacturers had been routing their goods to southern Haryana areas via Delhi. This led to delays and raised the costs substantially.
After the project was completed industries would be able to send their produce directly to Rewari and beyond to Rajasthan, he added.
On the passenger side, travellers from Chandigarh and Haryana towns located on the National Highway No. 1 and headed for Delhi, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Mumbai would be benefited.
Mr Hooda said the cost of the project was around 10 per cent of the annual state budget.
