Sukhbir Singh Badal warns officers- resolve complaints within a week

Chandigarh, August 27, 2014: Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today directed senior police officers to ensure speedy and timely settlement of grievances highlighted during his Sangat Darshan programmes and said the pendency should not be more than a week.
Stating this here on Wednesday while listening to the grievances of the people during the  Sangat Darshan program held at Punjab Bhawan, Deputy Chief Minister said the SAD-BJP government had taken rigorous corrective measures to ensure crime free environment in Punjab and had directed the state police administration to make sure that there should not be any pendency in the cases once brought to his notice. Badal has asked Principal Secretary Mr. P.S. Aujla to personally look into pendency of such complaints and submit the status report to him in the next week’s sangat darshan.
To resolve the grievances of the Punjabis living in and around New Delhi, Badal announced that similar sangat darshan would be held in Punjab Bhawan Delhi on every Saturday. Terming the Sangat darshan program as a fruitful exercise, Badal said that people were highly benefited from this move as they were able to get their pending issues resolved immediately.
Regarding the alleged harassment case of Krispy Khaira where two senior police officers were allegedly accused of wrongdoing by Khaira, the Deputy CM directed the DGP Vigilance to enquire into the matter and submit the enquiry report by Friday. It was alleged by the applicants during sangat darshan that the IPS officers made heavy transactions in connivance with her husband Devinder Gill, a property dealer.
Badal assured the sports persons to give them government jobs and reiterated that the state government would provide jobs to medal winner sports persons who have exhibited extra ordinary talent in various national and international sports events.
While meeting a deputation from Haryana state who brought a case urging the Deputy Chief Minister to trace their ward belonging to Hisar, a driver by profession who was reportedly missing since June 18 from Lalru, Badal has sought a detailed report from the DGP Crime and asked him to resolve the case at the earliest.
On the issue of the transfers in various departments, Badal said that there would be no transfers in the state as the last date fixed for transfers has lapsed and no transfer would be made during this session. He said that the government was in the process of completing conscription process in all the departments and very soon unemployed youth would be recruited in various departments.
The deputy chief minister has also asked the state PWD department to accelerate the pace to complete the ongoing construction projects in the state. He said that the construction work of Rai Sikh Bhawan at Frerozepur would be completed immediately at a cost of Rs. 65 lakhs. The officers of the PWD department present on the occasion informed that tenders in this regard have been floated and the construction work would be completed within a fixed time frame. He also announced the up-gradation of high school at Jalalabad.
During this Sangat Darshan more than 840 people across the state today met the Deputy CM to redress their grievances and issues. Badal listened to their grievances very patiently and instructed the concerned officials to resolve their problems immediately. Most people registered their grievances against police, revenue, transfers and civil cases.
On the occasion Dr Daljit Singh Cheema Education Minister, P.S. Aujla Principal Secretary to Deputy CM, B.K. Garg IG Law & Order, Ajay Mahajan, Manvesh Singh Sidhu and Rahul Tiwari, Ashwani Kumar Sharma (all special principal secretaries to Deputy CM) were also present to help the people in getting done their problems solved.