Capt calls for collective effort to promote health care, education in state

Tribune News Service 

Chandigarh, September 25

Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday called for collective effort by all sections of society to bring Punjab back on the path of development.

Amarinder said improving infrastructure in the health care and education sectors is the main focus of his government. He said that after 70 years of Independence, 24,000 primary schools did not have basic amenities like benches and toilets and public health centres were in a bad shape.

He said the government intended to do basic check-up of the population at health care centres once or twice a year.

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Speaking at the release of a coffee table book ‘Doyens of the Health Care’, brought out by The Tribune group, the CM said that apart from setting up a new medical college at Mohali, the government intended to set up another in south Punjab over the next two years. “My priority is to bring the state out of the mess,” he said.

Earlier, welcoming the Chief Minister, The Tribune Editor-in-Chief Harish Khare said the people of Punjab had reasonable expectations from Amarinder and there was hope that things would get rectified.

On the occasion, eminent doctors from the Punjab region were honoured by the Chief Minister.