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Implement schemes for the benefit of poor: Punjab minister

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Press Trust of India Chandigarh
Last Updated : Mar 30 2017 | 8:49 PM IST
Punjab Forest and SC/ST Welfare minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot today asked the officials to implement all the welfare schemes in true spirit so that its benefits reach the needy and the downtrodden.
Chairing a meeting with the department officers, he said that to provide much needed respite to the needy and the downtrodden population of the state, the priority of the department should be to implement all the welfare schemes in the true spirit.
He said that the instructions have been issued to the officers, to ensure the implementation of welfare schemes as enlisted in the five year plan, an official spokesperson said.
The minister said that the department officials has also been directed to update within 15 days the data of the schemes and the record of beneficiaries in the 11th and 12th five year plan.

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First Published: Mar 30 2017 | 8:49 PM IST

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