Mann, Kejriwal signal pact to copy Delhi mannequin on schooling, well being in Punjab

By Express News Service

NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH : There was a glint of a freshly injected hope in Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s eyes as he stood together with his celebration boss Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday. The event: the signing of a information sharing settlement between the 2 CMs. Punjab will now replicate Delhi’s schooling and well being mannequin – a promise AAP made to the Punjab voters in February Assembly polls. 
“Delhi colleges seem like these in Canada.

Even the final wards of presidency hospitals are higher geared up than ICUs in most hospitals. During the height of Covid, I had organized ventilators via MPLAD funds however needed to donate them to a non-public hospital as a result of the district-level hospitals didn’t have medical doctors to function them and help ventilator sufferers,” mentioned Mann. 

On a two-day journey to Delhi,  Mann is apprising himself of the standard of schooling and the state of well being institutes within the nationwide capital. The settlement will facilitate the 2 governments to be taught and share their information, expertise and expertise for public welfare.

“Cooperation and collaboration is the only way ahead for Delhi and Punjab. We’ll fulfil Babasaheb Ambedkar and Sardar Bhagat Singh’s dreams,” mentioned Kejriwal. Mann was in sync. “This agreement is a watershed moment. We’ll make our state a ‘Hasta-Khelta-Rangla’ Punjab again,” he mentioned.

Before inking the settlement, a group of Delhi ministers and officers gave an in-depth presentation on the state’s schooling and well being fashions to their Punjab counterparts. They mentioned about 25% of the entire finances goes to schooling. The Delhi well being mannequin follows an aam aadmi strategy to increase high quality healthcare companies from mohallas to hospitals.

Mann mentioned 117 authorities colleges and an equal variety of ‘Mohalla Clinics’ can be arrange in every meeting constituency throughout Punjab. He brushed apart the opposition criticism towards the settlement, saying it was not one-sided. 

However, Punjab’s opposition events have been essential of the settlement. SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal accused Mann of promoting off the state’s pursuits to Delhi. “AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal has become the de-facto CM of Punjab,” he mentioned. “It is a black day for the state. Never before in the history of the state have outsiders been given control of the state. Punjab has become subservient to Delhi, which is hardly a state,” Sukhbir mentioned. 

Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa mentioned the settlement was akin to the Lahore Durbar transfer, which invited the British in 1846 to safeguard the security of the Maharaja.