Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday listed out the achievements of the AAP authorities on its first anniversary and promised to speed up the state’s progress to show it into ‘Rangla Punjab’. He spoke about his authorities fulfilling the AAP’s ensures of giving 300 models of free electrical energy monthly, authorities jobs for the youth, and opening of mohalla clinics, amongst others.
“The AAP government, which was elected with expectations and big hopes, completed one year in office. Punjabis created history by giving a huge mandate to the AAP one year ago,” he stated.
In the 2022 Punjab Assembly election, the Aam Aadmi Party received 92 of 117 seats. “Within one year, we gave 26,797 government jobs,” Mann stated, including that 87 p.c of households within the state obtained zero electrical energy payments.
The chief minister additionally stated {that a} determination to regularise the providers of 14,000 momentary workers within the schooling division and 14,000 in different departments has been taken.
Services of outsourced workers may also be regularised after eradicating “legal hurdles”, he stated.
On the agriculture entrance, Mann stated his authorities gave MSP on ‘moong’ crop and Rs 1,500 per acre for selling direct seeding of rice and in addition cleared sugarcane dues of Rs 392 crore.
More than 500 mohalla clinics have been opened in Punjab and 12 to fifteen lakh folks have availed healthcare providers at these services, he stated and termed it his authorities’s “big achievement”.
He additional stated the AAP authorities in Punjab will begin Schools of Eminence for college kids. Mann additionally spoke concerning the sacrilege and accused the earlier governments of doing nothing to make sure justice within the matter. He stated that his occasion had promised to ship justice in instances associated to the desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib.
Referring to the 2015 Kotkapura police firing incident, he stated a 7,000-page chargesheet and there was no “political interference” within the probe carried out by the Punjab Police particular investigation group.
“Since we did so much work in the first year, we will now shift to the second gear of progress. Big industrialists are keen to invest in Punjab, they will set up their units and it will create jobs,” the chief minister stated.
“Our motive is not (to form) the next government… Generally, parties start looking at how their next government will be formed… We are saying people have made the government. Our priority is to take our next generation forward and raise the standard of living of the poor,” he stated.
Asserting that his authorities was working in the direction of turning the state right into a ‘Rangla (vibrant) Punjab’, Mann stated, “If you have shown faith in me and then keep the faith. I will never break your faith.”
The chief minister stated that his authorities will begin a “very big campaign” towards medicine. Asserting that his authorities has zero tolerance in the direction of corruption, claimed that his authorities took strict motion in graft instances. Many former ministers are in jail and motion has been taken not solely towards influential folks but in addition towards those that belonged to the ruling AAP, Mann added.
