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International marketing chains for state farmers, setting up of world-class industrial and tourism hubs, fast-track courts for trying 1984 riots cases and a state institute-cum-hospital for advanced cancer diagnostic are among the key features in SAD election manifesto released here today.
Besides, setting up of world-class industrial regions as global hubs of manufacturing, textiles and IT sectors and developing Punjab as a global medical tourism hub, with advanced institutes like AIIMS in the state are among the priorities of the Akali manifesto.
With special emphasis on industrial and IT growth, the manifesto assures the creation of three lakh avenues for employment for the Punjabi youth in new ventures, SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal said while releasing the party manifesto.
There is special emphasis on controlling prices especially of essential commodities. For this, stringent measures will be taken to check black marketers and hoarders who enjoyed political patronage from the Congress rulers and created artificial scarcities and price hikes in the country.
The party also promised effective measures to be taken to check corruption and the spectre of black money in the country.
"Earnest efforts will be made to bring back black money lying in foreign banks," the manifesto said.
The manifesto puts special emphasis on development of Border, Kandi and water-logged areas in the state, and on the modernisation and all round development of villages and towns in the state.
Sukhbir declared that the SAD will work in the new NDA government at the centre to ensure that farmers received MSP as per the Swaminathan Formula, which includes assured markets at MSP 50 per cent above cost of production for farmers produce.
To fight the wheat-paddy rotation which is disastrous for soil fertility and for the falling water table, remunerative MSP assured markets to alternative crops will be the SAD goals.
In a path-breaking initiative, the SAD promised that the new government at the Centre will be asked to treat agricultural allied fields like dairying, bee-keeping to as "agriculture" for the purpose of income tax exemptions, easy bank loans.
Besides, setting up of world-class industrial regions as global hubs of manufacturing, textiles and IT sectors and developing Punjab as a global medical tourism hub, with advanced institutes like AIIMS in the state are among the priorities of the Akali manifesto.
With special emphasis on industrial and IT growth, the manifesto assures the creation of three lakh avenues for employment for the Punjabi youth in new ventures, SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal said while releasing the party manifesto.
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The 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab are going to polls on April 30.
There is special emphasis on controlling prices especially of essential commodities. For this, stringent measures will be taken to check black marketers and hoarders who enjoyed political patronage from the Congress rulers and created artificial scarcities and price hikes in the country.
The party also promised effective measures to be taken to check corruption and the spectre of black money in the country.
"Earnest efforts will be made to bring back black money lying in foreign banks," the manifesto said.
The manifesto puts special emphasis on development of Border, Kandi and water-logged areas in the state, and on the modernisation and all round development of villages and towns in the state.
Sukhbir declared that the SAD will work in the new NDA government at the centre to ensure that farmers received MSP as per the Swaminathan Formula, which includes assured markets at MSP 50 per cent above cost of production for farmers produce.
To fight the wheat-paddy rotation which is disastrous for soil fertility and for the falling water table, remunerative MSP assured markets to alternative crops will be the SAD goals.
In a path-breaking initiative, the SAD promised that the new government at the Centre will be asked to treat agricultural allied fields like dairying, bee-keeping to as "agriculture" for the purpose of income tax exemptions, easy bank loans.