The Haryana Government on Monday approved two Rs.120-crore schemes for augmentation of water supply in Hisar and Hassanpur (Palwal) towns under the 13th Finance Commission grants. Chief Secretary P.K. Chaudhery, who chaired a meeting of the high-level monitoring committee, said the fire services would be strengthened during the next five years at a cost of Rs.100 crore. The projects and schemes of several departments for utilisation of the Commission’s grant-in-aid as provided by the Government of India for the period 2010-15 were also approved, Principal Secretary, Finance, Sanjeev Kaushal said. On the water augmentation schemes, he said these would be completed in a time-frame of three years and the water supply would be augmented to 135 LPCD in both the places as compared to 120 LPCD at present in Hisar and 55 LPCD in Hassanpur.