A day after Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal unveiled the beautification of the area surrounding Golden Temple here, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal congratulated him for the facelift of the holy city.
Talking to reporters after inaugurating the entrance gate here, the Chief Minister, accompanied by Deputy CM and Union Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, said that the new entrance gate and Golden Temple plaza has given a new look to the city while maintaining its age old traditional look.
He said that these projects have added zing to the holy city and would be instrumental in giving a major fillip to tourism sector in the city. Replying to another query, the CM said the State Government was fully sensitised towards maintaining these projects along with other state of the art memorials
which have been either inaugurated or were in the final stage of completion.
He said that State Government has already constituted a high power committee to ensure proper upkeep of these memorials. Badal said that this committee would leave no stone unturned for ensuring proper maintenance of these projects adding that the state government has already kept the required funds at their disposal.