Labour Minister Sangat Singh Gilzian reviews status of ongoing infra works

Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, November 10

Reviewing status of ongoing development projects, Forests and Labour Minister Sangat Singh Gilzian on Wednesday emphasised to ensure completion of these works within stipulated time frame so that people could be facilitated with the benefit of such projects.

Chairing a meeting here at District Administrative Complex this evening, to take stock of development works and welfare schemes, the Cabinet Minister directed the officers of different departments to get the pace of works expedited besides providing maximum benefit of welfare schemes to eligible beneficiaries.

Accompanied by MLAs Sunder Sham Arora, Pawan Kumar Adia and Indu Bala, the Cabinet Minister also instructed to accelerate the process of providing 5 marla plots to beneficiaries in villages by including all eligible ones in the ambit of welfare measure. It was also informed that in Hoshiarpur district a total 52,103 consumers would get benefit of more than Rs 30.23 under waiver of arrears of electricity bills. So far, 9,581 beneficiaries have got advantage of scheme with waiver of amount to the tune of over Rs 6.73 crore.

Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner Apneet Riyait apprised that under Punjab Nirman Programme funds worth Rs 20 crore had been sanctioned of which Rs 6 crore was released while the remaining Rs 14 crore would also be disbursed shortly, which would further speed up the development works. It was also informed that under MGNREGA, a target of works worth Rs 93.85 crore had been set and till date Rs 50.34 crore was incurred.

Sangat Singh Gilzian also asked to ramp up process of Smart Ration Card, Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojana Cards and other welfare measure so that maximum people could take advantage of these schemes.

MLAs Sunder Sham Arora, Pawan Kumar Adia and Indu Bala told officers to ensure effective supervision and timely review of these works in larger public interest.