CHANDIGARH: The flurry of announcements by Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to please voters ahead of assembly elections is apparently putting further strain on the state's depleting coffers.The state government apparently does not have enough funds to implement the announcements of Hooda for rural areas, forcing Haryana Rural Development Fund (HRDF) administration board to seek a loan of Rs 100 crore from different agencies of the state. The government has agreed to bear the interest amount payable on this loan.To arrange Rs 400 crore to implement the works approved by Hooda, the board on August 19 held a meeting under the chairmanship of CM's principal secretary S S Dhillon. "At present, only Rs 10-12 crore are available with the HRDF board, and 45% of the budget of the plan schemes of panchayats department has also been exhausted," the board noted in its meeting.Hooda is making populist announcements almost every day to woo different sections of the state, including employees, senior citizens, women and Dalits, before the model code of conduct comes into effect. The Congress leader seems to leave nothing for the opposition to offer to the voters ahead of assembly polls, sources said.In the latest case, the state development and panchayats department has already issued sanction orders for works worth Rs 255 crore, out of total budgetary provision of Rs 555 crore for the current financial year. Documents accessed by TOI revealed that the department has already sanctioned or released funds for two quarters (up to September) during the current financial year.The HRDF board has already released Rs 218 crore for development works like improvement of roads, arrangements for water supply, health services, sanitation and other public facilities in rural areas.INLD general secretary R S Chaudhry alleged that the Hooda government had reached the "verge of bankruptcy." The total outstanding debt of Haryana government has crossed Rs 80,000 crore, which was just about Rs 23,000 crore in 2005 when Hooda took over charge of the state, he said.A former bureaucrat, Chaudhry maintained that the government was borrowing money to repay loans and even interest. "The state government paid Rs 6,125 crore as interest on loans during 2013-14," he said.A senior officer of the state finance department declined to comment on the worsening financial health of Haryana. However, a spokesperson of Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee, Ran Singh Mann, stressed that there was nothing wrong in seeking loan from other departments of the state as per rules."Whenever the government takes loan, it does keep in view the financial position of the state. It's not happening first time. If the opposition parties are not happy with the announcements, then why don't they oppose the same," Mann argued.