Water for Sc's

Chandigarh, June 18 - The Haryana Chief Minister Mr. Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that Haryana Government had earmarked a sum of Rs. 155 crore during the current financial year under an innovative Indira Gandhi Water supply scheme for providing eight lakh water supply connections free of cost to the families belonging to scheduled castes in the State and out of these 3.82 lakh connections had already been given to the beneficiaries so far. The Chief Minister was addressing a gathering after inaugurating a boosting station at Bank Colony Bhiwani and water works at Village Ajitpur near Bhiwani today. Mr. Hooda said that the water supply scheme of Ajitpur had been constructed at a cost of Rs. 1.79 crore and 8346 population of three villages namely Ajitpur, Dhana Narsan and Dhana Ladanpur would get 70 liter water per capita per day. Similarly, the boosting station of Bank colony had been constructed at a cost of Rs. 1.10 crore and it would serve 9601 population of the colony and they would get 150 liter water per capita per day.