Kandi Area Advisory Council reconstituted

by Punjabnewswire4u (Balbir)
 CHANDIGARH, SEPT 3

 The Punjab Government has reconstituted Punjab State Submontane and Kandi Area Advisory Council for the all round development of the Kandi area. Mr. Parkash Singh Badal, Chief Minister, Punjab would be chairman of this council, whereas Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal, various MPs, MLAs and Principal Secretaries of different departments have been inducted as members in this council.

Disclosing this here today, an official spokesman said that this council would act to define the submontane and Kandi area of the state. Similarly, it would also be the function of this council to aid and advice the government in drawing up schemes and programmes for the development of this Kandi area.

Enumerating the various other functions this council supposed to play, he said that this committee would undertake the area planning of these areas in order to ensure integrated and all round development of this area, to fix priorities of various development works to be executed in these areas, to co-ordinate and review the activities of various departments with a view to remove the bottlenecks in the speedy implementation of programmes, to take effective steps for spreading literacy in these areas and to devise measures to raise the standard of living of the backward section, landless labourers and agricultural works in these area.

The spokesman further said that apart from Deputy Chief Minister, the other official members of these council included Revenue Minister, Finance Minister, Chief Secretary, Financial Commissioner, Development, Financial Commissioner, Forest and Wild Life, Principal Secretary, Finance, Principal Secretary, Industries and Commerce, Principal Secretary, Irrigation, Principal Secretary, Planning, Secretary, Power, Secretary, School Education, Secretary, PWD B&R, Secretary, Water Supply and Sanitation, Chairman cum MD, Punjab State Transmission Corporation Limited, Chairman cum MD, Punjab State Power Corporation Limited and Deputy Commissioners of Hoshiarpur, Roop Nagar, SAS Nagar, SBS Nagar and Pathankot. He said that the non-official members from district Hoshiarpur are MP Hoshiarpur, MLAs of Mukerian, Dasuya, Chabbewal, Garhshankar, Sham Churasi and Hoshiarpur, from district Roop Nagar; MP Anandpur Sahib and MLAs Anandpur Sahib and Roop Nagar, from district SAS Nagar; MP Patiala, MLAs Dera Bassi, SAS Nagar and Kharar, from district SBS Nagar; MP Anandpur Sahi and MLA Balachaur and from district Pathankot MP Gurdaspur and MLAs from Sujanpur, Bhoa and Pathankot have been inducted in this council.