Reduced to beggar for grants: Navjot
Saturday, 06/09/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140906/punjab.htm#5
Amritsar :Chief Parliamentary Secretary Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu has once again come out against the state government and targeted it for having “misplaced its priorities”. She vented out her ire on a social networking site over the plight of Amritsar after the rains.
Talking to The Tribune, Dr Sidhu said she had time and again approached the government authorities to facilitate basic amenities in her Amritsar-East constituency, “but to no avail”.
“The government is spending Rs 500 crore on the BRTS project in which elevated bus corridors will be built. But it is least concerned about the fact that an hour of rainfall inundates the city roads,” she said. She said the city’s sewerage system was in a bad shape and water was entering into houses. She said the civic authorities lacked funds to extend basic amenities to the residents.
Dr Sidhu claimed she had been running from pillar to post for the last two and a half years to get her projects cleared, “but none of them had got the approval”. “They neither listen to us nor give us power. What I will do with my vision and intelligence when the government doesn’t provide funds for my projects?” she asked.
She said she could only manage to provide Rs 25 lakh for water harvesting in her constituency from the funds allocated to her.
“Good ideas can only be implemented with funds. I feel like a beggar going every other day to all concerned,” she said.
Dr Sidhu also targeted Local Bodies Minister Anil Joshi: “He must remember that he is not only the minister of his Amritsar-North constituency, but of the entire state.”
