Bathinda, February 3
Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal today promised that all 12,500 villages of the state would have concrete streets if the SAD-BSP alliance formed government in the state, besides providing clean drinking water and sewerage facilities to villagers.
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“The SAD-BSP tie-up is committed to improving the village infrastructure on the pattern of cities. We will launch a comprehensive plan for this purpose once elected to power,” he said at a public gathering in Bathinda Rural.
He also promised that farmers, who did not have a tubewell connection, would get one within a month of the formation of the SAD-BSP government. He announced that all homeless families would be given five-marla plots each. —
SAD vows revamp of village infra
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