PACE OF DEVELOPMENT TO GET DOUBLE IN LUDHIANA: MP RAVNEET SINGH BITTU

LUDHIANA, MAY 11, 2018: With the Congress-led new civic body has taken reins of the city into its hands, the pace of development will get double here, claimed Member of Parliament (MP) Ravneet Singh Bittu on Friday who inaugurated the development works worth Rs 6.99 crore in Atam Nagar constituency.

The works include repair of roads in D-block at the cost of Rs 77 lakh, roads near Gurdwara Santokhsar Sahib worth Rs 86 lakh, works of Rs 84.34 lakh in Nirmal Nagar and Rs 84.92 lakh in Dugri Main Market, Rs 1.56 crore for Jawaddi and Pakhowal road, Rs 55.83 lakh for Guru Nanak Colony's roads, works of Rs 54.10 lakh in Chet Nagar and repair of roads around Gill Chowk and Dhuri railway lines at the cost of Rs 31 lakh and other development projects were initiated by MP Ravneet Singh Bittu.

Bittu said that Ludhiana will have the best infrastructure in the state for which state government led by Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh would leave no stone unturned.

MP stated the all these works will be completed in a time-bound manner.

He told in last decade, Atam Nagar and Ludhiana South constituency have suffered a lot and it will be given equal importance to other areas of the city and claimed that the people here want change.

On the allegations against Punjab government over tampering with records of Sikh history, he said that Akali leaders had always preferred to include chapters of 'Badal and Majithia' families into the history’s books and ignored Sikh history for which they don’t deserve right to speak on the issue.

On the occasion, Mayor Balkar Singh Sandhu, senior Congress leader Kamaljeet Singh Karwal and others were present.