Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Sunday announced waiver of Goods and Services Tax (GST) on langar at the Sri Devi Talab temple here.
Channi met Rahul Gandhi on Thursday
The state has also allowed faceless assessment of GST and VAT, doing away with the need for traders and industrialists to be physically present with tax officers
Chief Minister tells investor summit state has created 6,000-acre land bank for industries.
This comes a day after the Congress' Punjab unit chief made public his letter to Sonia Gandhi flagging several issues
Addressing the media after the Cabinet meeting here, the Punjab Chief Minister announced the previous outstanding water bills worth Rs 700 crores to be waived in the state.
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Channi on Sunday launched 'Mera Ghar Mere Naam' scheme to confer proprietary rights on the people living in the houses within the 'Lal Lakir' of villages and the cities
Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi directed the chief secretary on Thursday to constitute a committee to simplify land ownership rights
A huge crowd had gathered at the airport to welcome the leaders
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Sunday said there will not be any laxity in action against those involved in desecration cases
'I asked the PM to resolve the matter of farmers' protest and resume dialogue with the protesting farmers,' said Channi
This is Channi's first meeting with Modi after becoming chief minister.
Channi will meet PM Modi on Friday and is expected to urge him that the Centre withdraws its letter on postponing the paddy procurement in the state from October 1
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi has sought the intervention of the Prime Minister to withdraw the Central government's order to start the paddy procurement from October 11.
The suspense over the resolution of issues raised by Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu continued Thursday evening after a two-hour meeting between him and Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi.
A day after meeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah, former Punjab Chief Minister on Thursday called on National Security Advisor Ajit Doval amid talks of switching to BJP.
Amid crisis in Punjab, several Congress MLAs from Chhattisgarh have reached Delhi to meet party in-charge P.L. Punia and seek appointment with Rahul Gandhi.
The Congress said that the senior BJP leader's home has become the "centre of anti-Dalit politics".
'Whoever is party president is head of the family. I had called him (Sidhu) and told him that the party is supreme,' Channi told media
Amid the ongoing crisis in the party's Punjab unit, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal on Wednesday said the party has nothing to worry about as everything will be all right.