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Batala, October 16 - Punjab Chief Minister Mr Parkash Singh Badal
today said that keeping in view the grave situation of gastroenteritis in
Batala city, the state government would soon
organize a Mega Health camp in the
city in the coming December to diagnose the patients with serious ailments in
general and that of gastro in particular.
Talking to the media persons after taking stock of the situation in gastro
infected locality of Gandhi camp here today, the Chief Minister categorically
said that as a part of the state government’s commitment to deliver world class
health facilities to the people this mega camp would be organized in
Batala on the lines of ‘Sangat Darshan’ program, which would facilitate
the people to avail quality Health care facilities under one roof, that too
without spending any money. Expressing profound grief and sorrow over the
death of 21 persons due to the gastro in the city, Mr Badal said that it was
unfortunate that this disease had made inroads in the area due to the contamination
of sludge sewage with the drinking water due to the dilapidated condition of
supply pipes.
Announcing an ex-gratia grant of Rs
1 lac for next of the kin of each of 21 deceased, Mr Badal said that the state
government was duty bound to help these people in this hour of crisis. He
further said that the Punjab Health System Corporation (PHSC) was already
carrying out relief operations on war-footage in the city adding that free
medicines worth Rs 3 lac are being supplied to the area residents for preventing
any further mishap. Visibly peeved over the inhuman conditions in which the
residents of Gandhi camp locality were residing, the Chief Minister asked the
Deputy Commissioner (DC) Gurdaspur and the political leaders present on the
occasion to draft a suitable rehabilitation policy of these people with their
express consent.
When asked to comment on the apprehensions of
the state Congress leadership over the revival of terrorism in the state, the
Chief Minister while ruling out any such possibility said that the SAD-BJP
government was committed for promoting peace, brotherhood, communal harmony and
amity at very cost. Mr Badal pointed out that the Congress leaders were making
a false hue and cry over the issue because of their chronic habit of raising
the bogey of terrorism when out of power. He said that the state
government was fully vigil to curb the nefarious designs of anti-Punjab forces,
who want to derail the developmental process in the state.
Lashing out at the Congress party, the Chief Minister said that the Union
Government was discriminating with the states ruled by the non-Congress parties
by not issuing the requisite developmental grants to them. He said that it was
a paradoxical situation in which the Congress ruled states were getting more
money whereas those ruled by the non-Congress government were virtually getting
nothing. Mr Badal said that to further aggrieve the situation the Union
Ministers of the UPA government were also acting autocratically by diverting
the projects and funds of their respective departments towards their native
states due to which lopsided development was taking place in the country.
The Chief Minister further said that Punjab
was the worst sufferer of such discriminatory policies of the Union government
as the state was hardly getting any grant from the Centre. However he said that
if at all the Union government issues any grant to the state then such riders
are imposed on it which makes its utilization impossible. Mr Badal said that it
was a known fact that the successive Congress led governments at the Centre had
always meted out step motherly treatment with the Punjab
due to which the economy of the state has suffered a major setback thereby
resulting in its retarded development.
Reiterating that the state government was
making all out efforts to develop every nook and corner of the state, the Chief
Minister said that no discrimination was being done with any part of the state
while allocating the funds for development. He said that developmental grants
were being given to every assembly constituency so as to provide basic civic
amenities to the people besides ensuring the over all development of the area.
The Chief Minister was
accompanied by former Speaker Mr Nirmal Singh Kahlon, former Cabinet Minister
Mr Sewa Singh Sekhwan and former MLA Mr Lakhbir Singh Lodhinangal.
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