Punjab Government would invest Rs1700 crore on the project of upgradation of rural link roads.
“The work on the project would commence next month,” said Rural Development and Panchayat Minister Surjit Singh Rakhra while interacting with media persons.
He said that training to the Sarpanches and Panchs would be imparted at block level whereas training to Zila Parishad and Block Samiti members would be imparted at District or State level.
Rakhra said that the Punjab Government has envisaged the total facelift of villages which have been inhabited by more than 60 per cent population of the State.
The minister reiterated that the Government was working for the over all development of the villages in strategic way, for this purpose digital map of the villages prepared.
He further said that the identification card of all rural representative have been issued to them in order to avoid their harassment in Government offices.