CHIEF MINISTER OFFICE PUNJAB
BADAL CONSTITUTE CORE GROUPS TO EXPLORE POSSIBILITIES OF OVERALL DEVELOPMENT IN KANDI AREAS
CHANDIGARH JULY 29:
Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today constituted four core groups to be headed by the Ministers of Water Supply & Sanitation, Forests & Wild Life, PWD (B&R), Irrigation and Power to study the ways and means to combat the peculiar problems related to scarcity of drinking water, scanty irrigation facilities, uninterrupted power supply and menace of wild animals that had resulted in substantial damage to the standing crops besides loss of human life and property in the Kandi and Bet areas.
Presiding over a meeting of Sub-Mountain & Kandi Area Advisory Council, Mr. Badal said that these core groups would also comprise the MLAs from the Kandi and Bet areas along with the Administrative Secretaries of the respective departments to take stock of the situation and suggest remedial measures to overcome these hardships. On the basis of the consolidated report of these core groups to be submitted within a month, Mr. Badal mentioned that it would be finally posed to Centre for seeking additional funds to tackle the problems in a result oriented manner on the pattern of exclusive grants meant for the Border Area Development Programme.
The MLAs from Kandi area vehemently demanded to immediately repeal Punjab Land Preservation Act (PLPA), 1900 that had hampered the growth of these areas because even the basic civic amenities of drinking water, sewerage, electricity, irrigation, road network could not be provided to the residents.
These MLAs also drew attention of the Chief Minister towards the wide spread devastation caused by the wild animals like blue bull & wild bore and demanded to declare these vermin besides allowing the inhabitants of the Kandi area to kill them with in the prescribed norms of the wild life protection Act in order to save their crops and life.
It was also observed in the meeting that a comprehensive proposal could be prepared on the development of the Kandi area as a separate chapter by the Joint Development Commissioner to be included in the memorandum to be submitted by the state government to the 13th Finance Commission for seeking special funds for the overall growth and progress of the Kandi area.
The MLAs also highlighted the problems of poor conditions of link roads, power supply and irrigation facilities and solicited government's top priority to address these issues without any further delay. The members also urged the Chief Minister to seek the expert advise of the irrigation department to assess the feasibility of the canal based water drinking schemes in the Kandi area where deep drilling tubewells were not only a difficult preposition but almost a distant reality.
Prominent amongst others who were present in the meeting included Cooperation Minister Capt. Kanwaljit Singh, Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal, Forests Minister Tikshan Sood, Transport Minister Master Mohan Lal, Member Parliament from Hoshiarpur Avinash Rai Khanna, Mrs.Mohinder Kaur Josh, Ch.Nand Lal, Mr.Des Raj Dhugaa, Mr.Arunesh Shakir (all Chief Parliamentary Secretaries) MLA Anandpur Sahib Sant Baba Ajit Singh, MLA Chamkaur Sahib Charanjit Singh Channi, MLA Morinda Ujjagar Singh Badali and MLA Kharar Balbir Singh Sidhu. Chief Minister's Media Advisor Mr. Harcharan Bains, Chief Secretary RI Singh, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister DS Guru, Principal Secretary Finance DS Kalha and Secretary Planning Satish Chandra, Secretary PWD (B&R) Kulbir Singh and Secretary Water Supply & Sanitation PS Aujla and Director Information & Public Relations Tejveer Singh also attended the meeting.
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No.CMO-08/235
BADAL CONSTITUTE CORE GROUPS TO EXPLORE POSSIBILITIES OF OVERALL DEVELOPMENT IN KANDI AREAS
CHANDIGARH JULY 29:
Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today constituted four core groups to be headed by the Ministers of Water Supply & Sanitation, Forests & Wild Life, PWD (B&R), Irrigation and Power to study the ways and means to combat the peculiar problems related to scarcity of drinking water, scanty irrigation facilities, uninterrupted power supply and menace of wild animals that had resulted in substantial damage to the standing crops besides loss of human life and property in the Kandi and Bet areas.
Presiding over a meeting of Sub-Mountain & Kandi Area Advisory Council, Mr. Badal said that these core groups would also comprise the MLAs from the Kandi and Bet areas along with the Administrative Secretaries of the respective departments to take stock of the situation and suggest remedial measures to overcome these hardships. On the basis of the consolidated report of these core groups to be submitted within a month, Mr. Badal mentioned that it would be finally posed to Centre for seeking additional funds to tackle the problems in a result oriented manner on the pattern of exclusive grants meant for the Border Area Development Programme.
The MLAs from Kandi area vehemently demanded to immediately repeal Punjab Land Preservation Act (PLPA), 1900 that had hampered the growth of these areas because even the basic civic amenities of drinking water, sewerage, electricity, irrigation, road network could not be provided to the residents.
These MLAs also drew attention of the Chief Minister towards the wide spread devastation caused by the wild animals like blue bull & wild bore and demanded to declare these vermin besides allowing the inhabitants of the Kandi area to kill them with in the prescribed norms of the wild life protection Act in order to save their crops and life.
It was also observed in the meeting that a comprehensive proposal could be prepared on the development of the Kandi area as a separate chapter by the Joint Development Commissioner to be included in the memorandum to be submitted by the state government to the 13th Finance Commission for seeking special funds for the overall growth and progress of the Kandi area.
The MLAs also highlighted the problems of poor conditions of link roads, power supply and irrigation facilities and solicited government's top priority to address these issues without any further delay. The members also urged the Chief Minister to seek the expert advise of the irrigation department to assess the feasibility of the canal based water drinking schemes in the Kandi area where deep drilling tubewells were not only a difficult preposition but almost a distant reality.
Prominent amongst others who were present in the meeting included Cooperation Minister Capt. Kanwaljit Singh, Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal, Forests Minister Tikshan Sood, Transport Minister Master Mohan Lal, Member Parliament from Hoshiarpur Avinash Rai Khanna, Mrs.Mohinder Kaur Josh, Ch.Nand Lal, Mr.Des Raj Dhugaa, Mr.Arunesh Shakir (all Chief Parliamentary Secretaries) MLA Anandpur Sahib Sant Baba Ajit Singh, MLA Chamkaur Sahib Charanjit Singh Channi, MLA Morinda Ujjagar Singh Badali and MLA Kharar Balbir Singh Sidhu. Chief Minister's Media Advisor Mr. Harcharan Bains, Chief Secretary RI Singh, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister DS Guru, Principal Secretary Finance DS Kalha and Secretary Planning Satish Chandra, Secretary PWD (B&R) Kulbir Singh and Secretary Water Supply & Sanitation PS Aujla and Director Information & Public Relations Tejveer Singh also attended the meeting.
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