To check the pollution arising from bio-mass burning coupled with augmenting farmers’ income, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday announced that a bio-ethanol plant would come up in every district of the State.
“The establishment of this plant would benefit both Punjab and the rest of the country apart from the farming community for the manufacture of petrol would reduce the dependency of India on foreign nations to a great extent,” Sukhbir said while addressing a huge gathering after laying the foundation stone of the State’s first bio-ethanol plant at Tarkhanwala village.
Bathinda MP and Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Talwandi Sabo MlA Jeet Mohinder Singh Sidhu and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation limited’s executive director Anil Pande was also present on the occasion.
Sukhbir said that Punjab would be pollution free with this plant coming to fruition and Malwa region would become more prosperous.
Coming to the developmental plank, he said that the state has been witness to unprecedented development during the past 10 years and during the next five years, the SAD-BJP government has set a target to make all the streets and drains of all the villages of the state concretized besides providing solar lights and sewerage along with clean drinking water.
“On forming the government for third consecutive time, the SAD-BJP government would construct colonies in villages thereby providing five lakh houses to the poor…In addition to the existing 200 skill centers, during the course of next five years, a skill centre would be constructed after every five villages,” he said.
Taking pot-shots at Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh, Sukhbir said that the Congress party is being run by PK (Prashant Kishore) in Punjab who has no knowledge about the history and culture of the state. Harsimrat, in her address, said that the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation limited would open 12 such plants across the country and beginning has been made from Punjab