3K posts of anganwadi worker to be created

Sushil Goyal

Sangrur, August 17

The state government will bring a Bill in the upcoming monsoon session of the Assembly to create 3,000 posts of anganwadi worker. This was announced by CM Bhagwant Mann at a function held in connection with Raksha Bandhan at a marriage palace at Dhanaula in Barnala district today.

The CM also handed over appointment letters to 14 newly recruited supervisors in the Department of Social Security. To mark the festival, a newly recruited supervisor tied Rakhis on the wrists of the CM and Sangrur MP Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer.

Mann announced that the government would soon relax physical test norms for girls to recruit them in the Fire Department. Punjab would then become the first state in the country to recruit the girls in the Fire Department.

He said the government would soon set up a centre for preparing students for the UPSC examinations so that boys and girls from the state could become IAS and IPS officers in large numbers. He said it was a matter of pride that there were now six women SSPs and eight women Deputy Commissioners in the state.

He said the state was changing rapidly. That was the reason why the youth were now enrolling at various colleges in the state in large numbers, instead of going abroad. Some had even returned from abroad. That was happening because parents and their wards had started showing faith in the present state government’s policies and initiatives, he claimed.