Chandigarh, June 18Punjab Cabinet, at a meeting this morning, today approved the Budget proposals for the year 2012-13 to be presented by Finance Minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa in the assembly on June 20.
A spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s office said the Cabinet gave approval to carrying out a massive plantation drive under the name of “Greening Punjab Project” on vacant land in rural and urban areas for which a corpus named “Greening Punjab Fund” had been created. The effort was to make the state clean, green and pollution-free in a phased manner.
Trees and plants of different species would be planted across the state and the programme funded through the corpus created with funds contributed by boards and corporations. The private and corporate sectors would also contribute to the scheme under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) clause of the Companies Act.
The Cabinet passed a resolution expressing grief and anguish over the recent incident of “cow slaughter” in Joga village of Mansa. The Cabinet expressed satisfaction over the action initiated by the administration against the culprits. It assured the people of the ‘severest of the severe’ punishment to those involved directly or indirectly in the heinous crime.
The Cabinet gave consent to setting up Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority to oversee implementation of traffic rules and mobility projects undertaken by various agencies in the Municipal Corporations besides ensuring an effective public transport system in the urban sector.
The Cabinet approved the conversion of the Punjab Municipal (Amendment) Ordinance, 2012, Punjab Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Ordinance , 2012 and Punjab Municipal Fund (Amendment) Ordinance, 2012, into Bills for enactment in the coming Budget session of the assembly to legislate the abolition of octroi on petrol and diesel within the municipal limits.
Likewise, it approved the draft of the Punjab Common Infrastructure (Regulation and Maintenance) Bill, 2012, for enactment in the Budget session. The Bill aims at creating of special purpose vehicles for maintenance of infrastructure at Focal Points.
The Cabinet gave approval to renaming the Directorate, Sainik Welfare, Punjab, as Directorate, Defence Services Welfare, Punjab. It gave the nod to draft Bills for setting up of two private universities “Adesh University” at Bathinda by the Adesh Foundation, Muktsar, and “Chandigarh University” at Gharuan in SAS Nagar (Mohali) by the Chandigarh Educational Trust.
Approval was given to remitting stamp duty on urban agriculture land on its transfer to the Class-I heirs during the lifetime of the owner as was done for residential and commercial property.
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