"My main aim to visit Punjab is to physically examine the areas of border belt and the ongoing developmental projects are already going on at a satisfactory level," he told the media here.
He said the Centre has made a plan under Pradhan Mantri Sadak Yojana (PMSY) to give good road infrastructures to villages along the border, no matter what the population of the villages is.
He said that under PMSY 18,000 kilometers long road network in Punjab would be taken up on priority basis very soon and green signal to this project has already been given.
Expressing concern over contaminated groundwater due to arsenic particles in Punjab, particularly in Malwa belt that includes Bathinda district, Ramesh said the government was seriously taking up the matter since it was spreading cancer in the region.
He said his ministry was committed providing hygienic potable water at the earliest possible time to everybody in the affected belt of Punjab.
Talking about the plight of village women in Punjab, he said that under the Nirmal Gram Panchayat scheme, it is the right of every woman to have the facility of toilet.
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Earlier, Ramesh paid obeisance in the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple, the holiest Sikh shrine.
At the Golden temple, he was honoured in the Information Centre with set of woolen shawls, replica of the Golden Temple, a set of Sikh religious books by SGPC Secretary Dalmegh Singh.
He also visited the international headquarters of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at Qadian town in Gurdsapur district.