Punjab failed to use central grant: Malik

Amritsar, May 11 Rajya Sabha member Shwait Malik claimed the Centre had given the grant to Punjab well in advance for setting up three oxygen-generation plants from the PM Cares Fund, but due to ill-conceived policies, these could not be...

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Updated At : 12:36 PM May 12, 2021 IST

Amritsar, May 11

Rajya Sabha member Shwait Malik claimed the Centre had given the grant to Punjab well in advance for setting up three oxygen-generation plants from the PM Cares Fund, but due to ill-conceived policies, these could not be utilised properly.

He alleged patients were losing lives due to Covid but the state government had not woken up from slumber. “Barring Faridkot Medical College, the government failed to get O2 plants started at Government Medical College, Amritsar and Patiala,” he said. — TNS