RS 5,500-CRORE PLAN FOR SEWERAGE, ROADS, WATER
Dhuri October 5:
The Punjab government has planned to provide four basic facilities — sewerage, drinking water, roads and streetlight — in all cities of the state during its term. A sum of Rs 5,500 crore is required for it.
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal stated this today after inaugurating a 1.9-km-long overbridge (including approach roads), constructed in two years on two level crossings (A-52 and A-63) here. Tamil Nadu Governor Surjit Singh Barnala and union minister of state for railways Naranbhai J. Rathwa were also present.
Badal gave credit of the overbridge to Barnala and his son Gaganjit Singh, in charge of the SAD for the Dhuri Assembly constituency. Badal arrived two hours late at the function. Governor Barnala and the union minister, besides others, waited Badal for more than an hour. Barnala said he had approached union railway minister Lalu Parsad Yadav for the overbridge.
Rathwa said 31 ROBs on level crossings had been sanctioned for Punjab, of which work was in progress on 12. There was a proposal of an overbridge at Beas on the Amritsar-Jalandhar section. Cooperation minister Capt Kanwaljit Singh, PWD B&R minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa, Dhuri MLA Iqbal Singh Jhundan and former SAD MLA from Dhuri Gaganjit Singh Barnala were among the speakers.
A section of the Dhuri press reporters boycotted the inaugural function as they reportedly were not allowed by the police to enter the venue. BJP leaders, led by district president Jatinder Kalra, also boycotted the function as a DSP stopped them from entering the venue through the VIP gate. PSEB employees also demonstrated near the function site to get their seven colleagues of Patiala circle reinstated.
Dhuri October 5:
The Punjab government has planned to provide four basic facilities — sewerage, drinking water, roads and streetlight — in all cities of the state during its term. A sum of Rs 5,500 crore is required for it.
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal stated this today after inaugurating a 1.9-km-long overbridge (including approach roads), constructed in two years on two level crossings (A-52 and A-63) here. Tamil Nadu Governor Surjit Singh Barnala and union minister of state for railways Naranbhai J. Rathwa were also present.
Badal gave credit of the overbridge to Barnala and his son Gaganjit Singh, in charge of the SAD for the Dhuri Assembly constituency. Badal arrived two hours late at the function. Governor Barnala and the union minister, besides others, waited Badal for more than an hour. Barnala said he had approached union railway minister Lalu Parsad Yadav for the overbridge.
Rathwa said 31 ROBs on level crossings had been sanctioned for Punjab, of which work was in progress on 12. There was a proposal of an overbridge at Beas on the Amritsar-Jalandhar section. Cooperation minister Capt Kanwaljit Singh, PWD B&R minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa, Dhuri MLA Iqbal Singh Jhundan and former SAD MLA from Dhuri Gaganjit Singh Barnala were among the speakers.
A section of the Dhuri press reporters boycotted the inaugural function as they reportedly were not allowed by the police to enter the venue. BJP leaders, led by district president Jatinder Kalra, also boycotted the function as a DSP stopped them from entering the venue through the VIP gate. PSEB employees also demonstrated near the function site to get their seven colleagues of Patiala circle reinstated.
