Online payment facility for traders within a month: Sukhbir

Punjab government would introduce a facility within a month to allow traders to get sanctions and make payments online, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said today.
The facility, which would come into effect within a month, would ensure that traders do not have to visit any government office for any purpose, including payment of taxes, Badal said while presiding over the state-level Maharaja Agrasain Jayanti organised by Aggarwal Maha Sabha here.
Badal assured traders that the government had prepared a blue print to abolish "inspector raj" and within six months they would get rid of "unwanted traditional exercises and administrative compulsions".

Reiterating his commitment to usher industrial revolution in Punjab, Badal said the government has already launched an industrial policy which has got "unprecedented response" from the country's business honchos.
Badal said, positive results would come in the industrial sector within months and would shut the "mouths of those Congress leaders" who had been misleading the state.
On BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu's allegations, Badal said it was an open fact and there was nothing to hide regarding development projects and amounts released for Amritsar.

"During the the SAD-BJP regime, maximum grants had been released for development works in Amritsar," he said.

Asked about facts produced by Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa on the state's fiscal health, Badal said it appeared as if the PCC chief did not understand the "basics of economics".
Bajwa should be more concerned about the financial mess at the Centre instead of trying to "concoct" misleading economic details of Punjab, he said, stressing that Punjab was in good fiscal health.