"If water is not used judiciously and saved optimally, then water emergency is written on the wall in the times to come," Power and Irrigation minister Rana Gurjeet Singh said while talking to reporters at the residence of Harjit Singh Parmar here last night. Maintaining that the real panacea of ills afflicting Punjab peasantry lay in crop diversification, the minister advocated quick shift from present wheat-paddy cycle to horticulture, fruits, vegetables and other crops that required less water. On drugs, Rana Gurjeet said the Amarinder Singh-led government was committed to snapping nexus between the police, politicians and drug mafia. Earlier, addressing workers, Rana Gurjeet counted various achievements of the state government in the last 105 days. Congress stalwarts Harjit Singh Parmar and Joginder Singh Mann honoured Gurjeet Singh with a sword and shawl on his first visit here after becoming a minister.

Source: India Today July 02, 2017 09:00 UTC