CHANDIGARH: In a bid to provide 100 per cent potable water across Punjab,the state government has envisaged an ambitious programme at a cost of Rs 962 crore in next two years. The decision was taken on Wednesday during the first meeting of a high powered committee headed by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal at the Chief Minister's office. He sanctioned another instalment of Rs 350 crore in addition to the Rs 306 crore already provided. Navjot Sidhu appeals to CM Amritsar: BJP Member of Parliament from Amritsar Navjot Singh Sidhu and his doctor-turned-politician wife and Chief Parliamentary Secretary Navjot Kaur Sidhu today urged Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to extend the services of Amritsar Civil Surgeon Dr M S Randhawa by two years. Dr Randhawa is due to retire on April 30. The surgeon has made efforts to check rehris selling tobaccos and other habit-forming drugs to school and college children, the letter read. Dal Khalsa sends memo to UN JALANDHAR: Dal Khalsa has sent another memorandum to Baan ki-Moon,Secretary General of the United Nation,urging him to influence India to bring the culprits of November 1984 genocide to book and abolish capital punishment in India. The UN chief is on a four-day official visit to India. Organisation chief Harchranjit Singh Dhami said,India is a member of the UN. As India has failed to protect the rights of Sikhs,it is time for the parent body UN to intervene
