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Punjab to formulate health policy soon

Chief Minister Badal wants institute on the pattern of All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Chandigarh: To upgrade the health-delivery system in Punjab, the State Government would soon formulate a policy on the lines of the national policy on health.

A decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal held here late n Monday evening, an official spokesman said on Tuesday.

The Chief Minister directed to prepare a blue print to upgrade the existing infrastructure in the state medical institutions and hospitals to provide best possible services to patients, especially the poor, he said.

He said the State would persuade the Centre to establish one of the six medical institutes to be set up in different parts of the country on the pattern of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi (AIIMS) in Punjab.

Model jails

Earlier, the Chief Minister also held a meeting with the officers of the Jail Department for the construction of two model jails at Kapurthala and Faridkot and constituted a committee to finalise modalities for its execution

Market terminals

The Government plans to set up three `market terminals' with high-tech infrastructure in Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana and Muktsar districts, at an estimated cost of over Rs 500 crore to boost agri-trade.

This was decided at a meeting held here between Mr. Badal and Union Agriculture Ministry officials, an official spokesperson said.

These terminals, set up on public-private partnership model, would be equipped with cold chain, grading centre and online marketing facility to provide good marketing support to the growers, the official added.

For better orchard management, latest equipment such as sprayers, pruners, graders and harvesting machines would be imported under `National Horticultural Mission,' funded by the Union Ministry, he said.

Plans to set up four wholesale markets of fruits and vegetable were also chalked out the meeting.

PTI

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