PTI
Chandigarh, March 6
Punjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan on Monday expressed his displeasure over the absence of two ministers during the Question Hour within the House and requested the Parliamentary Affairs Minister to make sure that both the minister involved remained current or one other minister was licensed for a reply.
During the query hour on the second day of the funds session, Higher Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains and Defence Services Welfare Minister Chetan Singh Jouramajra weren’t within the House when questions associated to their departments had been taken up.
The speaker later requested Parliamentary Affairs Minister Inderbir Singh Nijjar that ministers ought to stay current within the House particularly during the query hour.
“If any minister just isn’t within the House for any motive, then another minister be licensed (for a reply) in order that the sanctity of the query hour is maintained,” the speaker stated.
Nijjar stated the ministers might be given directions on this regard.
Transport Minister Laljit Singh Bhullar additionally got here late during the query hour and replied to the query which was earlier not answered.
Meanwhile, Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh slammed earlier governments for not guaranteeing the submit graduate medical college students serve in authorities hospitals and never forfeiting the Rs 15 lakh bond quantity.
Singh was reacting after Congress MLA Amrinder Singh Raja Warring raised the difficulty of scarcity of docs in a Gidderbaha hospital.
Every 12 months 400 submit graduate medical college students full their levels from three authorities hospitals and undertake that they might serve for two years in authorities hospitals beneath the bond coverage, stated the well being minister.
He stated the AAP authorities has recovered Rs 6 crore from some medical college students for not adhering to the bond coverage. The authorities can also be guaranteeing that the scholars will work in authorities hospitals as per the bond coverage, he stated.
Later, during the zero hour, Congress’ Warring slammed the AAP authorities over the difficulty of alleged deteriorating legislation and order state of affairs, claiming that individuals had been “anxious” about the identical.
“Murders are happening in broad daylight. People of Punjab are involved about the identical. The state of affairs has turned worse,” he stated whereas elevating the difficulty of legislation and order during the zero hour.
Warring was sporting a t-shirt with information cuttings associated to legislation and order printed on it.
He stated the state authorities has been claiming that peace and concord could be maintained within the state however the state of affairs has worsened within the final one 12 months.
Referring to the Ajnala incident, Warring claimed that it had occurred for the primary time in 40 years {that a} police station was “captured.” He stated at the same time as many days have handed for the reason that incident, no motion is taken but by the state authorities.
Last month, radical preacher Amritpal Singh and his supporters, some of them brandishing swords and weapons, barged into Ajnala police station on the outskirts of Amritsar, extracting an assurance from the police that kidnapping case accused Lovepreet Singh might be launched.
During an incident final week, six policemen, together with former Indian hockey participant and now Superintendent of Police Jugraj Singh, suffered accidents.
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