Haryana CM Announce Haryana MP’s and MLAs to contribute one month’s salary to Uttarakhand Victims

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Chandigarh, June 24- Haryana Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said that all Members of Parliament and Legislators of Haryana representing the Congress party would donate their one month's salary for the rescue and relief operation being conducted in Uttarakhand to help the those affected by the recent natural calamity.
The Chief Minister, who was addressing a press conference here today, said in reply to a question concerning the remarks of the opposition on the issue of extracting the stranded persons, "This is neither the time to indulge in cheap politics, nor to get credit for any help. It's a natural calamity and one should be concerned about the safety of the stranded persons". He said that entire nation is with Uttarakhand in this hour of crisis.
When his attention was drawn towards the relief operation undertaken by Gujarat Chief Minister to evacuate 15,000 persons hailing from Gujarat, Hooda said that he was not aware how they have done it.
In reply to another question concerning recent floods in Haryana, Hooda said that there was unprecedented discharge of 8.06 lakh cusecs of water at Hathini Kund Barrage as against its capacity of about 7.5 lakh cusecs of water. He clarified that the Hathini Kund Barrage was like a regulator and not a dam, therefore, it was wrong to say that Haryana released that much of water. He said that Haryana has been stressing the need for construction of three storage dams on Yamuna which included Renuka, Kishau and Lakhwar Vyasi. However, the State Government has constructed Kaushalya dam on river Yamuna.
He said that he has already ordered a special girdawari to assess the damage caused to the crops. The people would be compensated for the loss suffered by them.
In reply to flood control measures being taken in Haryana, Hooda said that all drains in the State would be cleaned by June 30. He said that the breaches caused by recent floods were being repaired speedily and the work would be completed by June 27.
In reply to another question, Hooda said that Rs 181 crore have been spent on strengthening the banks of river Yamuna during last three years and in addition to it, Rs 260 crore have been spent on other flood control measures during the same period. He said that during this financial year, Rs 110 crore would be spent on flood control measures.
Those present on the occasion included Chief Secretary, P. K. Chaudhery, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Chhatar Singh, Additional Principal Secretaries to Chief Minister, S. S. Dhillon and Dr K. K. Khandelwal, Principal OSD to Chief Minister, M. S. Chopra, Political Advisor to Chief Minister, Prof. Virender and Additional Media Advisors to Chief Minister namely Sunil Parti and Kewal Dhingra.