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Badal govt sanctions Rs 150 crore for works in Lambi segment

LAMBI: With about one-and-a-half-year left for the assembly elections in the state, the Parkash Singh Badal-led state government has started diverting huge funds for the development of his Lambi assembly constituency.

Badal govt sanctions Rs 150 crore for works in Lambi segment

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Lambi, July 30

With about one-and-a-half-year left for the assembly elections in the state, the Parkash Singh Badal-led state government has started diverting huge funds for the development of his Lambi assembly constituency.

Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal last week laid 37 foundation stones for various development works in 35 villages in the Lambi segment. The estimated cost of these works is about Rs 150 crore.

The state government has even given the administrative approval to carry out these works, which mainly consist of the construction of concrete streets, drains (sewage lines) and minors.

The Panchayati Raj Department has been told to lay concrete streets in 15 villages of the Lambi segment at a cost of Rs 41.5 crore. Similarly, the Punjab Mandi Board has been told to carry out development works worth Rs 53 crore in this constituency. The Irrigation Department has been told to renovate six minor canals and construct a new minor canal in the Lambi segment at the total cost of about Rs 52 crore.

Parveen Gandhi, Executive Engineer, Panchayati Raj Department, said, “Our department has to carry out development works in 15 villages of Lambi with about Rs 41.5 crore. The state government has given the administrative approval to the DC to carry out the works. The tendering procedure will begin soon.”

Notably, in the past too, whenever the Chief Minister has held Sangat Darshans in his Lambi assembly segment, he sanctioned grants of Rs 50-80 lakh on an average for each village. Sources close to the Chief Minister said he held Sangat Darshans in all villages once a year.

Further, the CM has adopted three villages – Rattakhera Vadda, Rattakhera Chhota and Kangankhera – in his constituency to develop them into model villages. Besides, his daughter-in-law Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has adopted Mann village, also in this constituency, under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) to develop it as a model village. Though she has just sanctioned about Rs 5 lakh for the sports infrastructure, the state government has sanctioned about Rs 8.36 crore for this village since November 15 last year, when Harsimrat had adopted this village.

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