Harsimrat seeks special deal for Pb, Chandigarh

Chandigarh: Shiromani Akali Dal’s Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Thursday sought Chandigarh along with a special package of tax benefits and industrial investment for Punjab, for the “state’s sacrifices to feed the nation”.During the debate on the Union Budget in the Lok Sabha, she said every state except Punjab had own capital city. Pointing out how being country’s food bowl for decades had depleted Punjab’s groundwater, she said: “Now 117 of out 133 blocks have become dark zones (water scarce). The central groundwater board’s 2019 report suggests that we have water for only 17 years and then we will be desert.”She claimed that the state deserved a special economic package to offset its losses on account of the depletion of groundwater. She said Punjab had freedom to apply for rural development tax, but the Centre had withheld its accumulated rural development fund (RDF) of Rs 3,000 crore to blackmail the state into reducing its taxes.
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