Announcing his cabinet's first decision, Mann also vowed to give 10,000 jobs in the Punjab Police and the rest in other departments, boards and corporations.
Punjab CM Channi said a survey conducted by his govt found that people wanted quality and cheap power. The reduction in power charges will apply to domestic consumers.
Navjot Singh Sidhu, among 14 Punjab ministers reshuffled, was divested of the local government portfolio and tourism, cultural affairs and museums portfolio.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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