Budget of Rs 700 crore will be spent on seven districts
Una. Under HP Shiva Project, Rs 1300 crore will be spent in seven districts of Himachal Pradesh during the next four years. In this project working under ADB, apart from citrus plants, gardens of various types of fruit plants including pomegranate, guava and litchi will be planted on 6000 hectares of land. This information was given by Horticulture Minister Jagat Singh Negi during the inspection of FLD of HP Shiva Project in Baul, Pipli and Kholi villages during his one-day stay in Una district.
He said that under the HP Shiva Project, 11 FLD clusters have been built on 12 hectares of land in development block Bangana at a cost of about Rs 1 crore 30 lakh, in which mango and guava saplings have been planted. He informed that Rs 18.45 crore is being spent through Jal Shakti Department by ADB HP Shiva Project to provide irrigation facility to horticulture under Kutlahar Assembly Constituency.
Under which five panchayats will get the benefit of irrigation facility. The Horticulture Minister visited various places and had detailed conversations with the gardeners associated with the HP Shiva Project. On this occasion, he appreciated the work of the officials of Horticulture Department Bangana. To increase the income of the gardeners associated with HP Shiv Project, they should be motivated and trained about different types of cash crops on the vacant land among the Haldar plants.
On this occasion, SDM Bangana Manoj Kumar, Deputy Director of Horticulture Department KK Bhardwaj, Executive Engineer of Jal Shakti Department Praveen Sharma and SDO Aman Kumar, Subject Matter Expert of Horticulture Department Shivbhushan Kanwar, Horticulture Development Officer Virendra Kumar and Horticulture Extension Officer Mohammad Arshad and other departments. Officers, employees and local gardeners were present in different areas.
