Announcing a bonanza for women on the occasion of ‘Rakhar Punia’, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday said that 6,000 posts of Anganwadi workers will be filled.
Mann, addressing a gathering to mark the festival, said that the wheels have already been set in motion for completing this recruitment process within 45 days. “Entire recruitment will be based on merit and will be done in a transparent and fair manner for which a mechanism is being evolved. In addition, 4300 posts have been recently filled in Punjab Police and the appointment letters to selected candidates will be handed over in the coming days,” he said.
He said that the State Government is committed to check the brain drain from the State to foreign countries. “The State Government is working hard to open more vistas of employment for the youth both in public and private sector,” he added.
He added that 16 new Medical colleges will be constructed in the coming five years thereby enhancing the total tally of medical colleges to 25, thus transforming Punjab into a hub of medical education. “Students, aspiring to pursue medical education, will no longer have to go to countries like Ukraine as they will be provided quality medical education in these medical colleges,” he said.