Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday directed the officers to organise mega camps for distributing benefits of pension, shagun, and the blue cards to genuine beneficiaries.
Taking this decision during a meeting with the delegation of Kisan Sangarsh Committee, Badal also asked all the Deputy Commissioners to organize such camps to ensure that the benefits of these pro-poor schemes percolate to the genuine beneficiaries.
He said that the aim of these schemes was to ensure the welfare of these strata of society and no laxity in
this regard would be tolerated at any cost.
Expressing concern over cases of farmer suicides, Badal asked the Revenue Department to open a special cell to process the cases for disbursing compensation in a fast track mode, to the next of the kin of the farmers who ended their lives in distress.
He asked the officers to explore the possibility of extending the facility of 200 units of free power to landless farmers of the state on the pattern of given to members of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes.
Badal also asked the officers of state power corporation, PSPCl, to expedite the process of providing 24X7 power supply in all dhanis and deras of the state. He asked the officers to ensure that work to supply uninterrupted power to all identified nearly 8100 deras and dhanis must be accomplished within next three months.
Chief Minister also assured the delegation that the state government would again impress upon the Centre to constitute Basmati Trading Corporation on lines of Cotton Corporation of India to safeguard the interests of Basmati cultivators by ensuring a fair price for their produce, said the spokesperson.
Acceding to another demand, the Chief Minister asked the PSPCl authorities to allow the shifting of bore within three acres of farmer’s land at his own expenses.