Friday, April 6, 2012


SUKHBIR PUTS ‘BIG TICKET’ INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS ON FAST TRACK

* Constitutes A Committee Under Chief Secretary To Remove Impediments In Their Timely Completion

* To Personally Monitor Every Project Seeks Report For Making Amritsar An International Tourist Destination

Chandigarh:- Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal, Deputy Chief Minister, Punjab today put the ‘big ticket’ infrastructure project on fast-track constituting a high-level seven member committee under Chief Secretary to ensure the time bound completion of all these projects.

Presiding over a high-level meeting of Administrative Secretaries here today, the Deputy Chief Minister said that the SAD-BJP Government has come to power with a promise to make Punjab most favourite investment destination by assuring world class infrastructure besides 24 hours quality power supply. He said that it was his personal commitment to the people of Punjab that all ‘Big Ticket’ projects including Thermal Plants, Road Infrastructure Project, Industrial Parks, Textile Park, Educational Institutes, would be completed in a time-bound manner in most professional way. He constituted a seven member committee under Chief Secretary that would include secretaries of Civil Aviation, PWD, Finance, PIDB, Housing, Industry and Local Government that would review the progress of every project and remove the teething problems coming in the way of timely completion of them.

Seeking fixed deadlines for completion of every project in the check list, Mr. Badal said that these deadlines would be sacrosanct for him and it was imperative for the committee to work out a system to meet these deadlines. He said that he would personally monitor these project on monthly basis.

Emphasising on making the holy city Amritsar an international tourist destination, Mr. Badal asked the Principal Secretary Tourism to submit a plan of action in this regard. He said that Amritsar has a great potential as it was all set to become a business hub of North India with the inauguration of Rs 110 Crore Integrated Check Post at Attari border that would have cascading effect on trade and commerce of Punjab.

Prominent amongst those present in the meeting included Chief Secretary Mr. Rakesh Singh, Principal Secretary to CM Mr. S.K. Sandhu, Principal Secretary to Deputy CM Mr. P.S. Aujla, Principal Secretary Finance Mr. Satish Chandra, Principal Secretary Local Government Mr. Suresh Kumar, Principal Secretary Mr. D. S. Bains, Principal Secretary Civil Aviation Mr. Vishwajit Khanna, Secretary PIDB Mr. Anurag Aggarwal, Special Principal Secretary to CM Mr. Gagandeep Singh Brar and Special Principal Secretary to Deputy CM Mr. Manvesh Singh Sidhu

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