The ruling Akali-BJP government today flagged off 50 hi-tech vans with LED display to highlight its "achievements" during its over nine-year rule in Punjab.
Information and Public Relations Minister Bikram Singh Majithia flagged off the vans from sports stadium here.
He said 50 vans equipped with a modern LED unit each, shall hold programmes across the state in the next few days and disseminate information about government schemes as well as "achievements".
"We will highlight both the achievements of the government: making the state power surplus, creation of record road infrastructure," he said.
"As well as (the vans) will spread awareness on various social welfare schemes so that the maximum number of deserving people can be taken under their ambit," Majithia said.
He said a complete capsule has been created around the film 'Chaar Sahibzada' - a Punjabi movie about sacrifices of Guru Gobind Singh's sons - which was in itself a singular voice against oppression and tyranny.
He said the film and the accompanying messages would be shown in villages in the evening.
Stating that this move was in keeping with the times and that changing times had created the necessity to update methodology of interaction with the people.
The Minister said inbuilt GPS system with latest vehicle tracking equipment and surveillance cameras have been installed on these vehicles to help the IPR department to monitor their movement and public response.
He said the project shall also be a "befitting answer to opposition parties who were speaking lies" about development done in Punjab during the last nine years.
"We will showcase the development as well as the genuine socio-economic change we have ushered in through a large number of welfare schemes and changes in governance models. People can themselves compare the present SAD-BJP government with the previous Congress led government," he said.
Majithia said making the state power surplus, ensuring
eight-hour regular supply and widening of the irrigation network remained the most important achievement of the SAD-BJP government.
"We increased power generation from 6201 mw to 11,688 mw with an investment of Rs 23,520 crore," he claimed.
The state has created the second highest road network in the country, he claimed.
He said the government had also succeeded in building one international airport at Amritsar besides one international airport terminal at Mohali and two domestic terminals at Bathinda and Adampur.
He said the government, besides bringing in record development, is serving people through unique social welfare schemes including the shagun scheme, health insurance scheme for farmers and 'Mukh Mantri Tirath Yatra Scheme'.
Comparing the "achievements" of the SAD-BJP government with that of previous Congress dispensation, Majithia claimed against "no thermal plant" being constructed during their rule, three thermal plants had come up during the tenure of the his government.
Similarly against "nil investment" in the power sector during the Amarinder government, the SAD-BJP government had "facilitated investment of Rs 72,320 crore" in this sector, he claimed.
