HITS & MISSES

Four months into his second tenure, Punjab CM Amarinder Singh has made some bigticket announcements

HITS

Ban on red beacons, sirens on vehicles ferrying politicians/ bureaucrats

Big crackdown on drug menace, 4,000 cases registered under NDPS Act

New Lokpal Act to allow inquests against CM, ministers and civil servants

Debt relief of Rs 2 lakh each for small and marginal farmers

Kurki abolished. Farm land of loan defaulters can no longer be auctioned

Three ambitious job generation schemes announced for youth

Power tariff for industries frozen at Rs 5 a unit

33 per cent reservation for women in government jobs; 50 per cent quota in panchayats and urban local bodies

Free school and college education for girls; financial aid on the birth of a girl child increased

MISSES

Sand mine auctions under major cloud amid allegations of benami bids by a senior cabinet minister

No clarity on how government will fund diversification of agriculture to move out of water-intensive paddy

Promised conflict of interest law to cover ministers and legislators shelved

No clarity on how the state plans to bridge the huge fiscal and revenue gap in the face of the seemingly insurmountable Rs 2.08 lakh crore state debt