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Haryana Cabinet clears rural roads development agency

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CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Cabinet on Monday approved establishment of Haryana Rural Roads and Infrastructure Development Agency.

Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda told media persons after the meeting that this agency would undertake infrastructure projects, particularly rural road works approved under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna, as well as “plan, execute, monitor and review the implementation of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna and other similar programmes”.

Mr. Hooda disclosed that the Cabinet also gave ex-post-facto approval to the revised eligibility criteria to provide house sites of 100 square yards to the families belonging to Scheduled Castes and those living below poverty line. According to the revised criteria, the annual income of the family, other than those belonging to the Scheduled Castes, should not exceed Rs.45,000 and the income of the family should be certified by the head of the family himself. The condition that the family should not own a house or plot measuring 100 square yards has been substituted with the condition that the family should not own agriculture land exceeding one acre. The Cabinet also amended the Haryana Panchayats Department State Service, Group C, Rules 1979, to raise the minimum educational qualification for the post of Gram Sachiv from Matric to 10+2.

It also approved a proposal for taking out the Class III posts of Haryana Raj Bhawan from the purview of the Haryana Staff Selection Commission. The Cabinet also approved the boundaries of the proposed Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon.

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