Five days after Rakhi, women of Mann village get Harsimrat’s gift

Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal hands over insurance policies to women of Mann village in Muktsar district on Friday. Tribune photo

Tribune News Service
Mann (Lambi), September 4

Five days after the Raksha Bandhan, Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal today handed over her promised gift — personal insurance policies under the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) -– to women residents of Mann village in Lambi Assembly segment.

Harsimrat has adopted this village under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) to develop it as a model village.

During her last visit to the village on August 8, Harsimrat had announced that she would personally hand over free insurance policies for 10 years to the women of the village between 18 and 70 years of age on August 27, two days before Raksha Bandhan.

But she failed to turn up on that day, much to the surprise of the residents.

Later, the district administration issued a statement that as the survey in this regard was on, it had led to delay in the minister’s programme.

Harsimrat has bought insurance for the women by paying Rs 120 for each one of them for 10 years from her salary.

Interacting with the mediapersons, she took potshots at Congress and AAP leaders, saying that they were fighting for personal gains.

“In such a scenario, Punjab or the people of Punjab are not their priority. By using wrong modes of publicity, the AAP formed its government in Delhi which is now proving to be a big failure,” said Harsimrat.

She said, “In the last about eight years, the SAD-BJP government has taken the state to unprecedented heights of development and the NDA too, after coming to power in the Centre, has given many big projects to the state. While the earlier Congress government in the state did nothing for its residents and the UPA government in the Centre had ignored Punjab in all respects.”

About the whitefly attack on the cotton crop, the Union Minister said that the state government had already ordered a survey of the fields that would be completed by September 25.

Courtesy: The Tribune