Punjab: Parvasi Punjabi Sammelan in January 2008

Patiala, July 8: Punjab government has decided to organise 'Parvasi Punjabi Sammelan' in the first week of January 2008 in Chandigarh on the pattern of 'Pravasi Bharatiya Sammelan'.

While announcing this at a press conference here yesterday, MP and acting president of SAD Sukhbir Singh Badal said, ''In the three-day conference, Punjab government will call upon all Punjabis who have settled abroad to come and see where Punjab stands now and what they can do for their home state.'' He said, ''The state is now an emerging destination for the foreign investment and this conference will assist the Non Resident Punjabis to render their support for it's development.'' Mr Sukhbir Badal announced that the Punjab Government had decided to set up ten police stations, to be called NRI police stations, exclusively for the Parvasi Punjabis where their cases and complaints would be disposed off speedily.

UNI