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Badal said the state government was making efforts to tie up with the Centre, World Bank, NABARD and other premier lending agencies to cover the entire population of the state under the said schemes, at a total cost of Rs 2,784 crore. Badal revealed that 15 per cent of the urban population still had no access to clean drinking water. He added that 43 per cent of the state population was living without sewerage facility.
The places where foundations stones of the projects were laid today were Kotfatta, Bhuccho, Maur, Rampura Phul (all Municipal Councils), one project in Bathinda and two projects of Mansa district MCs, namely Bhikhi and Budhlada.
SAD (B) president Sukhbir Badal and Local Bodies Minister Manoranjan Kalia accompanied the CM during his foundation stone laying spree. Sukhbir listed a number of projects the state government had envisaged for the state.
Later, in a press conference in the evening, the CM rubbished charges of violence during the elections, citing the peaceful byelection in Amritsar. “As per our claims, the byelection passed off peacefully in Amritsar,” said Badal. To a question on toxicity of water, particularly due to industrial waste in canals, Badal said a committee had been constituted to look into the matter. Answering a question, Sukhbir said MLA Kiranbir Singh Kang had never submitted his resignation.
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