31 pc budget outlay for power: Badal
Our Correspondent

Fazilka, June 28
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has said that 31 per cent of the state budget outlay had been earmarked to increase power generation.

Addressing the media in Jalalabad here at his third consecutive Sangat Darshan, Badal said that he has instructed senior officers of the administration to sort out the problems of the farmers across the barbed wire fencing on the Indo-Pak border in the Ferozepur district on a priority basis.

The CM further said that instructions for releasing tubewell connections on a priority basis to these farmers have also been issued.

Badal revealed that he has taken up the issue of crop compensation to these farmers with the deputy chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia during their meeting two days back.

He said that he was hopeful of getting compensation sanctioned for the farmers.

The CM also distributed cheques worth Rs 2.20 crores to 31 panchayats of the border villages.