Govt to concentrate on infra development: Sukhbir

Punjab government today said it will go ahead with its 'governance reforms' to bring all 149 citizen centric services to the people at their door steps by 2015 and focus on development of rural and urban infrastructure in the state.
"The government has already constituted a high powered committee under the chairmanship of state Chief Secretary to ensure timely implementation of governance reforms and provisioning of citizen centric services so that people could derive full benefit out of it," Punjab Deputy Chief Minster Sukhbir Singh Badal said while addressing the media here.
He said Punjab has become the first ever state in the country to implement such services in the entire state.

Referring to the rural and urban infrastructure development, he said the Punjab government has launched an action plan to improve the existing infrastructure in the state and was committed to provide basic amenities like better road connectivity, rural and urban drinking water system, street lights, sanitation, garbage disposal plants not only in urban areas but also in rural areas.
He said that all the promises would be fulfilled during the next two years.
The state has already become power surplus except for a coal supply snag which would be conquered at the earliest, he said.
Referring to the SAD winning Talwandi Sabo assembly seat after 29 long years, he said that it was evident from the winning margin with Congress candidate of more than 45,000 votes that people have expressed their full confidence in the programmes and policies of the SAD-BJP combine under the able stewardship of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.