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Bhagwant Singh Mann's Claims on Punjab Development and Job Creation

Wednesday, June 24, 2026
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Bhagwant Singh Mann's Claims on Punjab Development and Job Creation

Bhagwant Singh Mann was handing out appointment letters on Tuesday in Bathinda. Sixty-six hundred and sixty-five new spots at PSPCL. He made a claim too that Punjab had given out 68 thousand jobs over four and a half years.

He said the recruitment drive is finally over. It ended that old system of cash payments and political picks that used to decide hiring under previous governments. And something else he threw in: not even one appointment has been challenged in court. He blamed it all on merit selection , apparently.

Addressing everyone there, Mann pushed for Punjabis living abroad to come back. You know, call your friends and relatives overseas. Don’t look for Green pastures somewhere else. Come back here. Get jobs right here. He pointed to one person at the ceremony who got three job offers already. Just an example of what’s available now.

Then there was education stuff. Punjab is up. NITI Aayog figures, they said. Top spot nationally for primary and middle school learning. And it’s not just numbers. They are scoring higher than Kerala in language and math too. Plus the infrastructure ninety-nine point nine percent electricity access in schools. Computer access at ninety-nine percent.

Women getting jobs also got a mention. After probation, they'll be posted within forty kilometers of where they live. A tangible thing.

Welfare schemes followed. The Mukh Mantri Sehat Yojna covers all sixty-five lakh families across the state. Free treatment up to ten lakh rupees for everyone. Over thirty lakh health cards already issued. It’s a lot of paperwork, I guess.

He rolled out another program too. The Maavan Dheeyan Satkar Yojna starts July first. For women over eighteen, they get one thousand rupees every month. And those from Scheduled Caste groups? They get fifteen hundred. A small recognition scheme.

Agriculture was the next big chunk of talk. Water usage for irrigation went from twenty-two percent when he took over to over eighty percent today. That’s a huge jump. They’ve laid fourteen thousand kilometers of pipes and watercourses across the state now. And they created recharge points in canals and rivers. The water table itself, that thing has risen by two to four meters because of it.

And for farmers? He mentioned something specific about power during paddy season. More than eight hours of uninterrupted daytime power is now being supplied to agricultural tube wells. He called this a first for the state. A real relief there.

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