97,000 to get NREGA cards in Gurdaspur, Pathankot: Capt
GURDASPUR:Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday announced a series of projects to create health and education infrastructure besides providing new job cards under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) for the development of border areas of Gurdaspur and Pathankot districts.
During his speech at the statelevel Independence Day function here, the CM said 67,000 and 30,000 MGNREGA cards will be issued to beneficiaries in Gurdaspur and Pathankot. He announced air connectivity to Pathankot with flights to be made operational by September 30.
The CM announced a state-ofthe-art new bus stand in Gurdaspur at ₹20 crore. ₹84 crore has been set aside for providing toilets and water connections to all rural households in the district, he said. He also announced ₹2.5 crore for infrastructure upgrade at police stations in Gurdaspur, Batala and Pathankot.
Stressing the importance of ensuring the progress of the sensitive border areas, the CM announced ₹44 crore for health infrastructure upgrade and ₹118 crore for school infrastructure upgrade in Gurdaspur. Another ₹45 crore was allocated for disbursement under the old age pension scheme, besides ₹7 crore for the ‘Ashirwad’ scheme, he said.
He announced the construction of a new Sainik School’ at Dalla Gorian village in the district. Besides, ₹67 crore outlay for urban facelift of Pathankot and another ₹42 crore for urban facelift of Batala, he announced setting up of a PEPSICO bottling plant at Pathankot, where link roads would be repaired at a cost of ₹55 crore.