To provide better health facilities to the people at their doorstep, the Cabinet also approved the creation of 775 posts, including senior medical officer, medical officers, staff nurses, pharmacists, laboratory technicians, etc by upgrading 28 health institutions.
Addressing a presser, Charanjit Singh Channi said announced that tractor drivers, garbage collectors who are hired on a contract basis will be made permanent.
The Chief Minister further said that the Punjab government wanted to waive off all the debts of the farmers and debt up to Rs. 2 lakhs has already been waived off.
Charanjit Singh Channi alleged that Amarinder Singh and SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal were 'befooling' the people of Punjab.
Addressing a poll rally in Punjab's Hoshiarpur, Delhi CM Kejriwal said that Charanjit Singh Channi belongs to the Scheduled Caste (SC) and is asking people of his community to vote for him.
The chief minister's statement came two days after Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu batted for opening of trade with Pakistan through the Attari-Wagah land route.
Terming it an "expose", the AAP leader also accused the ruling Congress in the state of "patronising" the sand mafia. Chadha made the accusations after he visited Jindapur village in Chamkaur Sahib.
The Punjab chief minister also slammed former CM Amarinder Singh for his "myopic mindset" towards the poor.
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Thursday hit out at his political opponents, saying he is not someone who just makes announcements but the one who earns people’s trust by delivering on promises.
Punjab Congress Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu said that he will go on a hunger strike against the Channi-led state government if it doesn't make the reports on drugs menace and the sacrilege incident public.
Channi said during his tenure as the Technical Education Minister (in the previous Amarinder Singh-led cabinet), he burnt the midnight oil to help the university get out of the financial crisis.
A major controversy is brewing in Punjab ahead of the Assembly polls after Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi-led Congress government appointed Balwinder Singh Kotlabama, brother of Khalistani terrorist Avtar Singh Pannu, as the chairman of Punjab Genco Limited. Balwinder's appointment has sparked massive uproar with the BJP and the SAD calling it open terror appeasement.
The Punjab government has appointed Balwinder Singh Kotlabama, brother of Khalistani terrorist Avtar Singh Pannu, as the chairman of Punjab Genco Limited.
Punjab CM Channi said all such businesses of transport and cable are owned by the Badal family and now the people need not to pay more than Rs 100 per month, adding strict action would be taken against those not adhering to the new rates.
In Punjab, a fake Kejriwal is roaming. Whatever I promise here, he repeats the same. In the entire country, only one man, Kejriwal, can bring down your electricity bill to zero. So beware of that fake Kejriwal, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal said in Moga.
Sidhu uploaded over an hour-long video, comprising several clippings of his visits to various places in Pakistan, including Islamabad, Lahore and Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur itself.
India's Number One and the most followed Super Prime Time News Show ‘Aaj Ki Baat – Rajat Sharma Ke Saath was launched just before the 2014 General Elections.
According to sources, CM Charanjit Singh Channi along with close cabinet colleagues and their families went to Kartarpur after reopening on November 17 but did not include Navjot Singh Sindhu in the list of 50 people given to MHA.
The over four-km long Kartarpur corridor links Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan's Kartarpur, the final resting place of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev, to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Gurdaspur district.
The Kartarpur Corridor with Pakistan will reopen from November 17, just two days ahead of Gurupurab, the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, Union Home Minister Amit Shah posted on Twitter.
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