Baba Bakala (Amritsar), (Global News) Announcing a bonanza for women on the occasion of 'Rakhar Punia', Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann said that 6000 posts of Anganwadi workers will be filled.
Addressing a gathering here to mark festival of Rakhar Punia, the Chief Minister said that the wheels have already been set in motion for completing this recruitment process within 45 days. He said that entire recruitment will be based on merit and will be done in a transparent and fair manner for which a mechanism is being evolved. Bhagwant Mann said that in addition, 4300 posts have been recently filled in Punjab Police and the appointment letters to selected candidates will be handed over in the coming days.
The Chief Minister asserted that the state government is committed to check the brain drain from the state to foreign countries. He said that for this more vistas of employment are being opened for the youth both in public and private sector. Bhagwant Mann said that the state government is working hard towards this end.
Training his guns on the Shiromani Akali Dal and Congress, the Chief Minister said that the people of state have abandoned both these parties because of their anti-Punjab stance. He said that these parties had mercilessly plundered the wealth of the state resulting in extreme hardship to the people. Bhagwant Mann said that these rejected leaders have not held conferences on this occasion because they are fearful of facing the people.
Taking in former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal to the Chief Minister said that these leaders remained confined to the high walls of their palaces and never bothered about the common man. He said that these power drunk leaders built ‘castles in air’ and looted the public wealth mercilessly. Bhagwant Mann said that the result is that these leaders have been rejected by the people.