Chandigarh – The MLA from Kapurthala Rana Gurjeet has a list of issue concerning Punjab that he wants to convey to the Prime Minister Narender Modi. Rana Gurjeet shared all those in a press conference held today in Chandigarh Press Club.
In a press conference , a day before the visit of PM Modi to Mohali, Congress MLA from Kapurthala, Rana Gurjeet Singh said that he would welcome the prime minister for his visit to Punjab.
He said the PM is visiting Punjab after around 8 months. He did not make any announcement amid security lapses during his last time visit. The state lost something important as he had come here to announce some good projects.
Rana Gurjeet said, “There was no medical College in the Doaba region and for the same, I kept raising voice in the Vidhan Sabha even during our government. Now, I am requesting PM Modi to announce medical colleges in Doaba for the welfare of people. I have also written a letter to him.”
He added that the state is under debt and the Centre should help in such circumstances.
Rana Gurjeet raised the following points in his letter to PM Modi
1. The present fiscal position of the state is unstable. Unemployment rate is increasing day by day and so is frustration with the youngsters. The increasing crime, law and order and the brain-drain is the root cause of this disgrace;
2. Unemployment rate is increasing day by day and so is frustration with the youngsters. The increasing crime, law and order and the brain-drain is the root cause of this disgrace.
3. The plight of the farming community is very miserable. Rather, the viability of the entire agriculture sector is at stake. Continuously depleting water-table, availability of unchecked spurious seeds and pesticides/insecticides, the high rates of fertilizers etc. are killing agriculture. The livestock of the farmers is also under great challenge. Various diseases transmitted from the animals entering from other states unchecked are adding to the woes of the farmers. The killer lump skin is the latest example.
4. Infrastructures such as roads, hospitals, medical colleges etc. are essentially boosters for the development of the state. Punjab needs a package from the center for this purpose. Kapurthala Medical College is waiting for ribbon cutting only.
5. Industry in Punjab is minimal. As a big source of employment to the skilled people, it plays a vital role in the journey of progress. We need to revive the industrial sector by giving them tax-holidays, freight cut and other various exemptions to boost the investment in this sector.
“Punjab is a thickly populated border state and its people are both courageous and laborious. Ready to lay down their lives for the nation, they deserve an extra dose of love and affection from the center and, as such, I have to appeal to the Prime Minister to help Punjab and its people to come out of existing challenges,” said the Kapurthala MLA.
