Bathinda: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of a govt ITI in Fatehgarh Sahnewali village in the Sardulgarh sub-division of Mansa district.The institution, with a capacity of 240 students, will be built at an estimated cost of Rs 24.50 crore. It will offer training in five trades – electrician, mechanic electric vehicle, refrigeration and air conditioner technician, industrial robotics and digital manufacturing technician, and CNC machining technician.Addressing a gathering at Sardulgarh town, Mann said decades of Akali and Congress rule deliberately kept Punjab’s children uneducated while political families thrived. These parties were never concerned about the welfare of the people but only about securing power for their sons, daughters, and relatives, he added.The CM said the AAP govt in Punjab was running on a “new engine” of development, while the engines of the BJP, the Akali Dal and the Congress had become outdated and incapable of driving the state forward.“Akali Dal is itself a dinosaur which has usurped the state and its people. While the AAP govt is making strenuous efforts to prepare Punjabi youth for futuristic needs by making them doctors and engineers, the Akali Dal is bent upon dragging them back to the dinosaur era,” said Mann.He reminded the people that dinosaurs used to eat human beings, adding that it was a favourite animal of the Akalis who had “usurped Punjab, Punjabis, and their hard-earned money”.“People will never elect such people who ruined the state and usurped our generations by their atrocious moves,” said the CM.Taking a jibe at the Akali Dal’s ‘Punjab Bachao Yatra’, Mann said the real name of this gimmick of the Akali Dal was “Parivar Bachao Yatra”.“I dare the Akali leaders to explain that after looting the state for 15 years, from whom they are trying to save the state,” he said.Mann also reminded the people that when the entire farming community was fighting for their rights, the Akalis supported the Narendra Modi govt on draconian farm laws just for saving their berth in the Union ministry.He further said the state govt launched the ‘Meri Rasoi Yojna’, under which 40 lakh families would receive free quarterly food kits starting April, in addition to wheat provided under the National Food Security Act.AAP leader Manish Sisodia, who also attended the event, said the ITI project would give a boost to the economic development and the prosperity of the entire region.Minister Harjot Singh Bains said the ITI would act as a game changer by opening new vistas of employment for the children of the common man. Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian was also present.MSID:: 128753076 413 |
