HOUSE PANELS TAKE STOCK OF PROJECTS IN HOLY CITY

A Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food and Consumer Affairs and a Rajya Sabha committee visited Amritsar to review the ongoing projects on Tuesday.

In the presence of MPs from the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, the committee held discussions on projects, agendas and issues with officials of different departments.The Rajya Sabha committee head Satish Chander Mishra addressed the issues of railway authorities , airport authorities , Bhakhra Beas management board , central ground water authority officials.

MP Amritsar Gurjeet Singh Aujla also attended the meeting and assured to inform government regarding issues.

Supporting the proposal for naming Mohali Airport as Shaheed-E-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh International Airport, Aujla said , “It is a way to honour and remember our freedom fighters”. On the drug issue he said, “The Congress government is aiming to free Punjab from drug menace. For that we need the central government’s help. Within the past ten years the drug has penetrated in every house affecting the youth.”

“The rehabilitation centres will also run smoothly if the central government backs them,” Aujla added. Presenting a letter to the chairman of Food and Consumer Affairs regarding the distribution system scams, he informed about the steps taken by the state government.