AMRITSAR: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Friday launched a sweeping development push in Amritsar’s Attari constituency, announcing ₹57.80 crore for the overhaul of 121 roads spanning 137 km, while asserting that areas long neglected despite their strategic location along the Pakistan border will now see focused investment, improved connectivity, and renewed economic activity.
Positioning the initiative alongside broader governance and border reforms, CM Bhagwant Singh Mann said the Punjab Government is simultaneously working to unlock lakhs of acres through border fencing realignment, eliminate the drug menace from its roots, and steer Punjab toward a decisive development
CM Bhagwant Singh Mann added, “These governments never bothered about the state and people and had ruined the system due to which youth wanted to move abroad. The AAP Government made strenuous efforts to ensure that the menace of drugs was removed from the state. The scourge of drugs was a blot on the face of the state and it took more than two years for the AAP Government to chalk out a strategy for wiping out this curse.”
He said, “The AAP Government launched the ‘Yudh Nasheyan Virudh’ campaign as a part of which the supply line of drugs has been snapped and drug smugglers involved in this heinous crime have been put behind the bars. The curse of drugs is being wiped out at micro level with the active support and cooperation of the general public and this campaign has been transformed into a mass movement with the help of the common masses. The AAP Government has broken the backbone of drug trade by putting the big fishes involved in this heinous crime behind the bars and tightening the noose around the drug smugglers.”