Haryana announces free power connection for village hamlets

The Haryana government has announced to provide free electricity connections in all the village hamlets of the state.
"Ensuring electricity to every household is responsibility of the government. It has been decided that government will bear total expenditure for new connections," Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said today at a function here.
Hooda said to get power connections in the hamlets (dhanis) earlier, 50 per cent cost of total expenditure had to be deposited by the consumer, which was recently reduced to five per cent.
This decision is likely to benefit 43,700 hamlets (dhanis) of the state.
The Chief Minister further said it has been decided to provide electricity in all dhanis linked with agriculture feeder on rural-domestic pattern.

Hooda also announced to set up a DIET centre in Sirsa, construction of new building of the Government Women College, and repair of all roads of the district. He also announced to develop a new commercial market in the district.
About 3,800 houses will be constructed in the district with a cost of Rs 100 crore under the Rajiv Awas Yojna, he said.