Vegetable, fruit market to come up on HMT land

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, October 23

To give a thrust to employment generation in the region, the Haryana Government has decided to construct a fruit and vegetable market at the HMT, Pinjore, at a cost of Rs 100 crore.

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced this while addressing a gathering after inaugurating and laying the foundation stone of various projects worth Rs 83 crore at Tau Devi Lal Stadium here on Tuesday. He said the project would be set up on the HMT land acquired by the state government.

Khattar said they had made 176 promises to the people of Haryana before coming to power on October 26, 2014 and he was pleased to announced that they had already fulfilled 161 promises made to the people or were in the pipeline.

Lashing out at the previous Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Congress government in the state for rampant corruption, Khattar said they had brought down the corruption from 51 per cent to 19 per cent. He said strict action would be taken against those who were found indulging in it. He also announced development projects worth Rs 234 crore for Panchkula district out of which Rs 176 crore would be spent on Kalka. The CM said his government would not befool the people by making false promises and added that they would promise only those projects for which the government had funds.

He said the condition of village ponds was bad, especially Kurukshetra. He said a special ponds committee had been constituted, which would be assigned the duty of renovating and cleaning 14,000 ponds in the state. He said the state would do this to preserve water for future generations and these ponds would also help in recharging the ground water.