Punjab will get its twenty third district

Fulfilling a pre-poll promise of the Congress get together, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Friday declared Malerkotla because the twenty third district of the state on the event of Eid-ul-Fitr.
Amarinder was addressing the folks of the state nearly on the event of Eid. Having Malerkotla declared as an unbiased district was an extended pending demand of the Muslim neighborhood and residents of the city. The city has a predominant Muslim inhabitants.
The authorities had, in 2017, promised to declare Malerkotla a district. Then cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu and finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal and Razia Sultana had addressed an Eid operate in 2017 in Malerkotla and said that it will quickly be a district.
Earlier, Malerkotla was part of Sangrur district and residents needed to come to Sangrur to get government-related work completed.
Amarinder additionally introduced {that a} medical school, at the price of Rs 500 crore, named after Sher Mohammad Khan, could be arrange within the district.
He additionally introduced that the federal government would arrange a ladies school by spending Rs 500 crore. A brand new bus stand would even be constructed, together with an all lady police station within the district.