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Punjab Govt holds district wise NRI meets
Over 1000 migrant Indians from four districts participated in the meetings.
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann at NRIs meeting in Pathankot district. / DIPR Punjab
In an effort to resolve grievances of the state’s NRI community the Punjab government will organize a special meeting with the diaspora Punjabis (Non Resident Indians – NRIs) at various districts.
Chief Minister (CM) Punjab Bhagwant Mann participated in the first such event held at Chamrod Pattan (mini Goa) of Dharkal Tehsil of Pathankot district on February 3.
In a post on X , the CM wrote, “We are going to start an ‘NRI meeting’ for diaspora Punjabis in Punjab…in which grievances on the issue of NRI citizens will be addressed…the first NRI meeting we have held in Chamrod Pattan (mini Goa) village of Pathankot, for the reason to show different colors of the colorful Punjab to the Punjabis living outside.”
Public gathering at Punjab Government’s NRIs meeting in Pathankot district / DIPR PunjabIn another post, CM Mann also assured the NRI Punjabis that, “We will return the plots along with the kothis (houses) to those NRI Punjabis, whose properties are illegally possessed and kothis are built on them…”
During the NRI meeting, the CM met NRIs from various cities and districts including Pathankot, Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur, Amritsar. About 1000 NRIs from four districts participated in this program. The main objective of the program was to resolve the problems and grievances faced by Punjabis living abroad.
District level problems of NRIs were noted. NRIs raised the issue of the absence of a direct flight from Amritsar to Canada among other issues like land, property, money transactions, development works.
During the NRI meet organized by the Punjab government, the diaspora Indians appreciated the organized efforts being made to bring investment in the state. They that this is an exclusive initiative of the Punjab government and hoped that the government will resolve their issues in a timely manner.
Punjab NRI Affairs Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, Cabinet Ministers Lal Chand Kataruchak and Brahm Shankar Jimpa were also present on this occasion.
In December last year, the Punjab government at Ludhiana had also launched a website named nri.punjab.gov.in to solve the problems of migrant Punjabis.
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