BATHINDA: The Punjab Chief Minister, Beant Singh, has ruled out the possibility of ‘Punjab agreeing to Eradi Commission report about distribution of river waters with Haryana. Addressing a press conference here recently, Beant Singh said that there was no truth in the press reports attributed to Dharam Pal Malik, Haryana Congress (I) chief that Punjab had agreed to spare 3.5 million acre feet of water as the Eradi Commission had recommended, He said that the Punjab government and his party had already rejected the Eradi Commission report and no final agreement on this issue had so far been arrived at.
The Chief Minister said that the panchayat solution in the crore would be conducted within six months from now. He said that it was a good sign that panches and in villages had been cooperating with the government in the development activities.
Beant Singh said that the Punjab Municipal Committee Act of 1911 would be amended after the municipal elections to give more powers to the elected civic bodies,
Beant Singh lashed out at the SGPC president, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, over latter’s press statement describing militants as his children, The Chief Minister said that it was shameful that same Tohra who was attacked by the militants was now glorifying them,
The Chief Minister declared that army would remain deployed in the state as long as wanted by the State government. He said that in real practice it was the Punjab Police which had been fighting militancy,
The CM said that action would be taken against A.K. Kundra, a former health secretary, who was allegedly involved in scandal related to nominations in the MBBS courses.
While addressing the meeting of Beopar Mandal, he assured the business community to wave off octroi very soon and to simplify the sale tax collection system, Gulzar Singh, Labour and Employment Minister, Surinder Kapoor State Minister of Irrigation and Power and Public Relations and Joginder Singh Mann, PWD Minister also addressed the meeting. Madan Lal Kapoor president of Beopar Mandal, presented a memorandum to the CM
Article extracted from this publication >> September 18, 1992
