{"id":171,"date":"2007-07-08T00:21:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T04:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissawatch.org\/Infra\/?p=171"},"modified":"2007-07-08T00:22:22","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T04:22:22","slug":"rural-development-and-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/171","title":{"rendered":"Rural development and drinking water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newindpress.com\/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEQ20070707224731&amp;Page=Q&amp;Title=ORISSA&amp;Topic=0\">New Indian Express reports<\/a> on the minister&#8217;s statement on this topic in the assembly. Following are some excerpts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Rural Development Minister Biswabhusan Harichandan announced in the Assembly on Saturday that 1,722 drinking water projects would be taken up in the State during the current financial year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230; the minister said the State Government has written to the Centre to waive the 10 percent contribution of the beneficiaries under the Swajaldhara scheme. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Observing that the Prime Minister\u2019s Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) has been a huge success in Orissa, the minister said the State has secured the fifth position in the country in the implementation of the programme.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Centre had sanctioned Rs 3,342.54 crore between 2000-01 and 2006-07 for construction of 3,723 roads having a length of 12,545.22 km, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Harichandan announced that a target has been fixed for construction of 3,124- km road and upgradation of 2,798-km road under the PMGSY during the 2007-08 financial year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Expenditure under the schemes funded by the awards of the Twelfth Finance Commission has also been satisfactory, Observing that the total sanitation programme is also a focus area of the government, the minister said Rs 8 crore has been provided in the budget for the programme in 2007-08.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He announced that 12 more divisions of the Rural Development department in addition to the present eight would be opened<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Indian Express reports on the minister&#8217;s statement on this topic in the assembly. Following are some excerpts: Rural Development Minister Biswabhusan Harichandan announced in the Assembly on Saturday that 1,722 drinking water projects would be taken up in the State during the current financial year. &#8230; the minister said the State Government has written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,197,222,224,225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drinking-water-projects","category-pmgsy","category-rural-development","category-swajaldhara-scheme","category-total-sanitation-programme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}