Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today asked the state's Financial Commissioner (Development) Suresh Kumar to explore the possibility of setting up a 'Social Security Commission' for farmers and landless labourers.
This Commission would be set up with the objective of enabling them to meet their financial exigencies during old age.
A decision to this effect was taken by Badal in a meeting with the high level delegation of Bharti Kisan Union led by its President Balbir Singh Rajewal here, an official spokesman said.
Taking part in the deliberations, the Chief Minister asked the FCD to examine the Karnataka model in this regard so as to grant financial assistance to the farmers and landless labourers.
He said that it was our bounden duty to help the hapless farmers and landless labourers by extending this facility so that they could spend their lives, especially the phase of old age with self respect and dignity.
Conceding another demand of the delegation, the Chief Minister asked the Principal Secretary Power Anirudh Tiwari to immediately clear the case regarding the expenditure to be finalised for the Voluntary Disclosure Scheme (VDS) to enable the farmers to enhance their load capacity of connections.
The Chief Minister asked the Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL) to chalk out some policy for giving adequate compensation to the farmers, whose land was being wasted for the installation of high tension tower lines.
He directed the Principal Secretary Forests D S Bains to cover all the sanctuaries with the barbed fence so as to protect them from the loss of life and damage caused to their crops by the wild animals.
