Chandigarh, Oct 8
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday launched the Roshan Punjab (or illuminated Punjab) campaign with an outlay of Rs 5,000 crore to make the state the first power cuts-free in the country.
Addressing the gathering after launching the campaign, Kejriwal said Punjab has witnessed unprecedented floods due to which a lot of devastation took place, but the brave and wise people have combated it strongly.
Kejriwal said the industry is getting fourth fourth-lowest tariff in the country, the agriculture sector has uninterrupted power, and now this initiative is being taken, adding that the work on this has not been done in the past 75 years.
Kejriwal said for the first time, an investment of Rs 5,000 crore is being made to bring reforms in the power sector.
The Chief Minister said that, realising well that power is the lifeline of the economy, the state government has taken several key initiatives to augment this sector.