- NEW INVESTMENT POLICY TO ALSO FOCUS ON NRIs
- 10% PREFERENTIAL ALLOTMENT TO NRIs IN PUDA COLONIES AND INDUSTRIAL ESTATES MADE A REALITY
- OVER 190 OFFICERS INSTEAD OF 22, DESIGNATED TO REGISTER NRI MARRIAGES
- ALL DEPUTY COMMISSIONERS AUTHORISED TO EMBOSS POWER OF ATTORNEYS BESIDES 4 DIVISIONAL COMMISSIONERS
- PUNJAB NOTIFIES NEW LAW TO CHECK FRADULENT MARRIAGES
- PUNJAB TIGHTEN NOOSE ON ILLEGAL TRAVEL AGENTS BY NOTIFYING HUMAN SMUGGLING ACT
- NRIs ALL SET TO BE ALLOWED TO EVICT TENANTS FROM MULTIPLE PROPERTIES, MULTIPLE TIMES
- GMADA FINALISES BLUEPRINT FOR NRI HEADQUARTER AT MOHALI
- GOVERNMENT APPROVED ESCO RAISES SEPARATE BATTALION TO SAFEGUARD PROPERTIES OF NRIs
- SSPs DIRECTED TO LAUNCH CAMPAIGN AGAINST ILLEGAL TRAVEL AGENTS
The Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal today announced the fructification of promises made to NRIs during NRI Sammellan and today gave final touches to an integrated plan to make NRIs lasting partners in the progress and prosperity of the state. Accompanied by NRI Affairs Minister Mr. Bikram Singh Majithia, Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal today reviewed the implementations of the decisions besides giving final touches to holistic plan. Mr. Badal said that the purpose of lasting relations with the Punjabi Diaspora was not to seek investment but to strengthen their emotional bond with their motherland. He said that under the New Housing policy and investment policy; Punjab has set aside 10% quota for Punjabi Diaspora in all PUDA approved schemes and industrial estates besides setting up a separate link for fast track approval in the industrial investment portal. He said that with the concerted efforts of all departments this major promise has been made a reality. Impressing upon the need for taking care of the families of NRIs to give them emotional support, Mr. Badal said tha he has issued directions to increase the marriage registration officer from registered 22 to 190 so as to expedite the registration of their marriages, understanding the limited time available to them during their stay in the country. He said that earlier only DROs were empowered to register the marriages but now the powers have been delegated to all Tehsildars and Naib Tehsildars. He said that he has issued directions to all field officers to be accessible to NRIs and perform their job on priority. Describing compulsory registration of marriages and Human Smuggling Acts as path breaking acts, Mr. Badal said that with the compulsory marriage registration act, we will be able to tackle fraudulent marriages by NRIs and with the Human Smuggling Act, we would be able to tackle the menace illegal travel agents, playing with the lives and hard earned money of Punjabi youth, who were being lured to foreign lands on illegal permits. Mr. Majithia informed the Deputy Chief Minister that Punjab Government was in process of taking a path breaking decision, in which an NRI can get tenant evicted from multiple properties, multiple times. He said that earlier he was allowed only once for a single property. He informed that similar amendment was also being effected for Rural Properties also. Meeting the long pending demands of NRIs to guard their properties in Punjab, Mr. Majithia informed the Deputy Chief Minister said that a Punjab Government Undertaking PESCO would supply professionally trained ex-servicemen guards for this purpose on a nominal payment. He said that NRIs on visit to Punjab can also seek deployment of PESCO guards for personal security. He said that PESCO has been asked to raise a separate battalion for NRIs. It was informed in the meeting that one more NRI Police Stations have been opened in NRI dominant districts including Amritsar. He said that instructions have already been issue to seek approval of DSP before registering any FIR against NRI to check bogus complaints. The Home Department informed that Punjab and Haryana High Court has been requested to setup three Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate Courts at Moga, Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur and an Appellate Court at Jalandhar for civil and criminal cases of NRIs and requisite funds have been provided for the same. Asking the GMADA to finalise the blueprint of NRI Bhawan at Mohali, Mr. Badal said that he would be laying the foundation stone of bhawan in the month of July. Raising the problem of NRIs, Mr. Majithia said that NRIs on visit to India were facing the problem of sim cards and Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal has already taken up this issue for its early solution.
