The toll plaza was illegal from day one, as it had been set up on an already constructed road, the former MLA from Dhuri seat said. Goldy said that he has been fighting against the setting up of the toll plaza since the beginning.
Punjab Chief Minister-elect Bhagwant Mann drew cheers from the crowd on Thursday as he announced that his oath-taking ceremony will be held at Khatkarkalan in Nawanshahr district, the ancestral village of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.
How Punjab s Rural Women, Neck-Deep in Debt, Are Trapped in Microloan Cycles
RBI regulations to check over-borrowing or ghost borrowers have failed to deliver, catching women in a cruel cycle of taking loans to repay loans.
A group of women in Mansa s Joga village in Punjab say most of them are in extreme mental distress due to loan overburden and inability to repay. Photo: Vivek Gupta
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Mansa/Sangrur/Barnala: âI feel like ending my life but who will look after my kids,â says Sukhdeep Kaur, from Joga village in Mansa district. She took her first micro group loan of Rs 30,000 in 2016 to open a cosmetic shop.