Ravi Dhaliwal
VOTERS are happy that after a long time, their voices are being heard in the corridors of power. During the 2017 Assembly elections, they had vowed to vote for a candidate who would wean their children away from drugs.
They claim Cabinet Minister and local legislator Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa has kept his word. For the Congress leader, the most effective antidote to drugs is sports. This explains why he had promised to build stadiums in all 180 villages of the segment. To date, stadiums have been constructed in 126 villages, while the construction is underway in the remaining villages.
Locals say that earlier, drugs were rampant in villages, but now the things have changed. “Instead of staying idle, the youth has something constructive to do,” says Pritam Singh, a local photographer.
The school infrastructure has also improved, if not fully, at least partially. “Unlike earlier, now a majority of schools have boundary walls and rooms,” says Pritam.
Voters say the MLA has done a good job, but a lot more needs to be done. “The segment needs a new drug de-addiction centre. Besides, roads in and around the town must be re-carpeted. Take the example of the Fatehgarh Churian-Amritsar road, which is in deplorable shape. We had hoped that the road would be widened when the Kartarpur corridor was being constructed, but that was not to be,” said Makhan Singh, a villager.
Fatehgarh Churian: Bumpy road to development
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