Bathinda dist may get textile park

Bathinda dist may get textile park
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Natheha (Bathinda), Feb 13

(In front row from left) Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, SAD leader and Rajya Sabha member Balwinder Singh Bhunder, LBP leader Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, CPI leader Dr Joginder Dayal and singer Harbhajan Mann share the dais during an anti-drugs rally held at Natheha village in Bathinda district on Sunday. DIG (Ferozepur range) Harinder SIngh Chahal in whose honour the event was oraganised can be seen standing behind the Deputy CM. Photo by writer

Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal today announced that the state was in the process of setting up a textile park in Bathinda district so that cotton growers of the region could avail of the gains of value addition.
Among other major projects coming up in the state, Sukhbir mentioned an IT park in Rajpura and a hand tool industry park in Kapurthala, adding that all the three parks would be marketed as power cut-free zones. For the purpose, the Powercom could be a signatory to the agreement to assure 24-hour power supply with a penal clause.
Sukhbir was here to attend a rally against drugs, organised by the residents of Natheha village in the honour of DIG (Ferozepur Range), Harinder Singh Chahal.
Sukhbir lauded Chahal for his efforts against drugs. He said the government was committed to check the drugs menace in the state and following the instructions, the state police had confiscated drugs in huge quantity during the last few months.
Replying to a query about the district rallies of former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, Sukhbir said, “He is trying to distract people by raising non-issues everyday. Accusing the SAD-BJP combine of not running the government in a healthy way is a mere ploy on Amarinder’s part to gain media attention.”
“Development of the state is my priority; not vendetta or criticism. Moreover, I do not want to waste my time and energy in useless debates with the former CM. If he has any doubts about the development in the state, I have offered him to travel across Punjab on our expenses and get the facts ascertained for himself,” asserted Sukhbir, adding, “it is the public that will judge me and not Amarinder Singh, who had disappeared for the last four years.”
When asked about the controversy around the recruitment of medical officers, which is being termed as the PPSC scam, Sukhbir parried the query saying that the matter was sub-judice and he would not like to comment on the issue.
Sukhbir also evaded the question about the tussle between Director General of School Education Krishan Kumar and Education Minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan. “Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal is seized of this matter, so it will be better if he is asked about it,” he said.
Later, Sukhbir visited Muktsar district, where he laid the foundation stones for the Rs 33-crore irrigation rehabilitation projects and a 66-KV sub-station grid at Malan village besides inaugurating the Doda sub-tehsil complex.