Generating job avenues shall be top most priority: Amarinder

With Assembly polls due next year, Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh today said, generating jobs and eradicating the scourge of drugs in the state will be "my top most priority".
He was interacting with a group of youth of at a local sports stadium.
Assembly polls are slated to held in Punjab in 2017.
The PCC president claimed, not only will he arrange jobs for youth, but will also facilitate soft and easy loans to encourage the youth towards entrepreneurship, whether in transport, small industry or information technology and agriculture.
He said, revival of industry and agriculture will be among his top most priorities as Punjab cannot survive without agriculture.

Sharing the concern and apprehensions of the educated youth, Amarinder said, he was saddened about highly educated youths with MPhil, PhD and engineering degrees in the state, applying for small and menial government jobs.

"I can understand the trauma of a highly qualified youth who is jobless", he said, adding, "my first and foremost priority will be to provide respectable jobs to all those who are qualified, deserving and in need of these".
Amarinder also announced that he will stop the illegal plying of buses by the Badal family and their associates.
He claimed the Badals were operating ten buses against one permit. "They will be allowed to operate one bus against each permit and all extra route permits will be provided to the unemployed youth", he said, adding, "not only will be the youth provided bus permits they will also be provided soft and easy loans so that they do not have any difficulty in purchasing the buses to operate".

Talking about drug trade issue, he said, no matter whosoever...Is found guilty, will not just be put behind the bars but severely punished, he said, adding, he had sworn under oath to punish the drug mafia.
He was accompanied by local MLA Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, in whose Assembly constituency Dera Baba Nanak this historic town falls.
The chief minister said all registrations should be
returned the same day and refusals, if any, should be recorded in writing.
All mutations will now have to be decided within seven days and mutation application with full names and addresses of parties should be forwarded by Sub Registrars to Fard Kendra the same day.

In a bid to clean up the transport system, he ordered online payment of all transport taxes and computerised recovery of arrears.
All power connection applications should be made online, and pendency should be displayed on website and monitored by the DC concerned, the Chief Minister said.
Urging the officers to give citizens due respect, the chief minister directed them to ensure good seating, cooling, sufficient space and drinking water in their offices.
Information boards, pamphlets, kiosks, counters should be provided to the public, along with assistance in filling up forms, applications and response through SMS.