Chandigarh: Urging the Punjab youth to learn lessons from recent deportation of illegal migrants from the USA, chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday appealed to them to shun the idea of going abroad by wrong means and work hard at their native state to make it a frontrunner in the country.
Addressing a gathering in a village of Ludhiana during a sports tournament, the chief minister said that while it was a blessing to have taken birth in Punjab, a sacred land which has the most fertile land in the world, but it was due to the failure of the successive governments in the state, the youth were forced to migrate to other countries in search of green pastures.
Mann said that ``the mass deportation from the US is an eye opener for all and now one should not move abroad illegally rather work hard in socio-economic growth of the state.’’
The chief minister said that the state government has already given more than 50,000 government jobs to the youth in Punjab purely on the basis of merit and that this is for the first time in the history of the state that such a large number of government jobs have been given to the youth in three years. Mann said that this trend will continue in the coming days too as a large number of jobs are in pipeline for the youth of the state.
