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‘Panipat to be patterned on Gurgaon’

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday assured that Panipat would be developed on the pattern of Gurgaon.

Addressing a public meeting organized by the local MLA at Panipat, he announced that a government college would be set up in the town.

While promising to change the development scenario of Panipat in the coming years, he said a Rs.36 crore plan had been envisaged for the remodelling of Panipat Drain no. one which would solve the problems of sewerage and water logging in this historical town.

He disclosed that the Government had also submitted a proposal involving an estimated expenditure of Rs.204 crores to the World Bank for canal-based drinking water supply scheme in the town as the level of ground water had depleted considerably in the last decade.

He said that the construction work of Rs.418 crore Elevated Highway on GT Road in the town was on in full swing and would be completed by March this year.

While lashing out at his predecessors for not taking any interest in setting up new power generating plants in the State to meet the increasing demand of power, he said his regime was giving utmost priority to this sector and three new power generating projects at Yamunanagar, Khedar in Hissar and Jharli in Jhajjar districts were being completed on war footing with a target to generate 5,000 MW additional electricity by 2010. He asserted that with the commissioning of these projects, power generation would go up to 9,000 MW against the estimated requirement of 8,000 MW and 20 to 22 hours power supply would be ensured daily in rural and urban areas.

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