Hooda plans Metro rail between Faridabad and Gurgaon

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has said he had a plan to connect Faridabad and Gurgaon with Metro rail to facilitate the people of the area.

Mr Hooda, who was addressing a public meeting at Faridabad yesterday, said the state government has already paved the way to connect Delhi with Faridabad upto YMCA through metro rail and it would be extended upto Ballabhgarh.

He said the state government was committed for allround development of Faridabad and after five years, Faridabad would be a leading industrial city of the country.

He said NIT Faridabad was set up by first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru and the state saw a lot of progress during the Congress regimes.

Bill payment goes online in Faridabad, Gurgaon

Now on, electricity consumers in Faridabad, Gurgaon and Hissar need not run from one office to the next for paying electricity bills. They can now pay their bills sitting at home, through the internet, as the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) launched the online facility for payment of electricity bills on Monday.

"The facility has been made available through DHBVN's website www.dhbvn.com to about six lakh consumers in 18 urban sub-divisions of Faridabad, Gurgaon and Hissar," DHBVN spokesman DP Dull said.

Haryana Minister for Power, Mahendra Pratap Singh, launched the facility, along with Sudhir Rajpal, managing director, DHBVN, Parveen Kumar, deputy commissioner, Faridabad on Monday.

Depending upon the choice of the bank, the website redirects consumers to the concerned bank website for completing the transaction, Dull explained. The payment can be made through internet banking, credit card and debit card through 27 banks.

Speaking on the occasion, Mahender Partap Singh said, “Haryana is predominantly an agricultural state and industries are also growing at a fast pace. Electricity is the lifeline for both of the sectors.”

While addressing the gathering, Sudhir Rajpal, managing director, DHBVN said information about bills for all consumers will also be provided on the website.

The DHBVN spokesman further informed that the facility for spot billing has been started in many towns in Haryana. He said the facility will be extended in a phased manner.

Under this facility, members belonging to the ex-services league and DHBVN officials take metre readings and generate bill on the spot.

Haryana approves funds for Metro to Faridabad

Haryana government on Monday approved a budgetary allocation of Rs 1,588.6 crore for the extension of Delhi Metro to Faridabad. The new Metro link from Badarpur to YMCA Chowk will hugely benefit residents of the NCR city and work is expected to start in a couple of months.

The financial approval came at a meeting chaired by chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. A government spokesperson said the total cost of the 13.8-km Metro project has been estimated at Rs 2,533 crore, of which the Centre will bear Rs 544.4 crore. The CM claimed the project is stipulated to take off in October this year and will be completed by March 31, 2013. "It will take at least three years to complete the project after work starts on ground. We are not taking any more work ahead of the Commonwealth Games,'' said a DMRC official.

Haryana government had approved Metro connectivity to Faridabad in March 2007. The project was subsequently approved by DMRC in December 2007 but was waiting clearance from the Delhi government and Centre.

This elevated stretch an extension of the Central Secretariat-Badarpur line of Delhi Metro will have nine stations up to YMCA Chowk. The Metro line up to Badarpur is likely to become operational by October.

Faridabad will be the last mega city in NCR to get Metro connectivity. While the Metro has already reached Noida and Gurgaon, it will extend up to Ghaziabad next year. Meanwhile, Haryana government has already announced to extend the Metro link to Ballabhgarh. Last year, Central government had set up a three-member committee to facilitate the extension of Delhi Metro to Faridabad and Bahadurgarh.

Work starts on highway to Faridabad

By May 2011, people will be able to zoom past on the four lane 24.3 Gurgaon-Faridabad road. The work on the widening of the Gurgaon-Faridabad Road from the existing two lanes to 4 lanes has begun. To be a tolled road, for which about 6,800 trees along the 12 km Gurgaon-Faridabad Road have been chopped off in the Faridabad stretch, 2,600 more trees on the Gurgaon side are to be felled by the Haryana Forest Development Corporation for the work from Gurgaon side to begin.

Reliance Infrastructure had bagged this BOT (Build, Operate and Transfer) project of four laning of the highway along with the widening and strengthening of Ballabhgarh-Sohna road with concession period 17 years at Rs 780 crore.

It was the first of its kind road project on BOT basis undertaken by the Public Works (Building and Roads) Department of the Haryana government.

For improvement or up gradation, both bituminous and concrete pavements, would be provided. In addition, some links of the roads like MCF road, crusher zone road and Pali Bakhri road will be improved as a part of scope of work. The total length of roads covered under the project would be 66 km.

Even though it would be a toll road, certain categories of vehicles would be exempted from payment of toll. These vehicles include two wheelers, tractor trolley carrying agricultural produce, defense vehicles, ambulances and funeral vans, police vehicles, fire-fighting vehicles, etc.

Plots in Faridabad, Property in Faridabad

Faridabad can be well understood from the fact that more than 50% of Haryana's income is contributed by Faridabad. Faridabad has many HUDA Plots and institutional sites that have been allotted for Religious, Social and Educational Purposes.With real estate developing at a rapid pace in the surrounding areas of NCR, Faridabad is too experiencing a considerable growth in this sector. The rise in demand for residential sector has increased.

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