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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann connected Tuesday launched a first-of-its-kind inaugural to alteration Punjab into the country’s archetypal authorities with pole-free villages by laying the instauration chromatic of an ambitious underground energy wiring task successful his autochthonal colony Satoj. In a large alleviation for farmers and agrarian residents, the Bhagwant Mann Government has begun shifting energy wires underground to forestall harvest fires, fatal accidents and predominant powerfulness disruptions caused by overhead lines, portion besides freeing villages from the maze of unsafe poles and tangled wires.
Under the aviator project, 384 energy poles volition beryllium removed from Satou and underground cables volition beryllium laid without digging roads, marking what CM Bhagwant Singh Mann declared arsenic the opening of a “Roshan Punjab” built connected modern infrastructure, uninterrupted energy proviso and safer villages. Calling the “Satoj Model” a roadmap for the full country, the Chief Minister said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government has fulfilled its committedness of creating wire-free villages for Punjab’s farmers and asserted that underground powerfulness proviso would besides extremity the authorities surrounding installation of energy poles successful villages.
Addressing a gathering, CM Bhagwant Singh Mann stated, “Today is simply a historical time for the villages of Punjab arsenic a large task to escaped villages from the web of energy wires and unnecessary poles is being launched from here. Under this aviator project, each overhead energy lines successful Satoj volition beryllium shifted underground astatine a outgo of astir ₹8 crore. This is the first-ever task successful the country, and with this inaugural Punjab volition look arsenic a exemplary task for the full nation.”
Explaining the method details of the project, CM Bhagwant Singh Mann stated, “Under this project, 7 kilometers of High Tension lines, 9.5 kilometers of Low Tension lines, and 41 kilometers of work cables connecting 800 consumers’ homes volition beryllium laid underground. All High Tension lines connected from the 66 KV Grid Satoj to the colony done 3 11 KV feeders and linked to 28 transformers volition spell underground. Thereafter, successful a historical initiative, each Low Tension lines from the 28 transformers to the metre boxes volition besides beryllium laid underground.”
The Chief Minister further said, “The cables connecting metre boxes to each households volition likewise beryllium undergrounded, owed to which 384 unnecessary energy poles volition beryllium removed. A peculiar diagnostic of the task is that roads volition not request to beryllium dug up for laying underground cables due to the fact that trenchless drilling machines volition beryllium utilized to instal underground pipes. These pipes volition beryllium laid 3 feet beneath the ground, which volition beryllium to beryllium a large boon for communal people.”
Highlighting the risks posed by overhead energy wires, CM Bhagwant Singh Mann said, “Electricity poles and overhead wires airs the hazard of electrocution to animals and people, particularly children. Accidents often hap erstwhile tractors, harvester harvesters, and different vehicles travel into interaction with overhead wires. Similarly, incidents of harvest fires pb to important losses for farmers. Rain, storms and beardown winds harm poles and wires, disrupting energy proviso and causing fiscal losses to the powerfulness corporation.”
Calling the task a win-win inaugural for the public, the Chief Minister added, “The web of poles and wires besides affects the aesthetic quality of villages. With High Tension and Low Tension lines shifted underground, energy leakage volition beryllium eliminated, reducing transmission and organisation losses. Villages volition person uninterrupted powerfulness supply, underground wiring volition importantly trim accidents, incidents of harvest fires caused by powerfulness lines volition beryllium prevented, and rainfall and beardown winds volition nary longer disrupt energy supply. Removal of unnecessary poles and tangled wires volition further heighten the quality and quality of villages.”
CM Bhagwant Singh Mann said the task would beryllium remembered arsenic a landmark inaugural successful Punjab’s history. “This task is being launched from my birthplace and volition beryllium written successful aureate letters successful the past of Punjab. From this village, the Punjab Government has launched a task that nary different authorities successful the state has adjacent thought astir yet. This task became imaginable due to the fact that my imagination is becoming a world today. This task was conceived years ago.”
The Chief Minister further said, “Today’s inaugural is straight connected to the lives of mean people. These energy poles volition go past successful the coming days.”
Recalling tragic incidents from the village, CM Bhagwant Singh Mann became affectional and said, “Three young men from this colony had mislaid their lives owed to electrical shocks involving harvester harvesters. They were the lone breadwinners for their families. This task is simply a tribute to those young men due to the fact that specified tragic incidents should ne'er hap successful future.”
Describing the inaugural arsenic a transformative exemplary for the country, the Chief Minister said, “The ‘Satoj Model’ volition beryllium known crossed the state for giving large reprieve to radical successful villages and cities. The satellite is talking astir settlements connected Mars, whereas our radical were inactive entangled successful issues of streets and drains. The Punjab Government has embarked connected a integer gyration successful Punjab. RTO services person been digitized and the Easy Registry strategy has been implemented with simplified language.”
CM Bhagwant Singh Mann further said, “Earlier, registry documents utilized to beryllium prepared successful hard connection that mean radical could not understand, forcing them to tally from bureau to office. However, present radical tin get their registry done from immoderate Tehsil wrong the district.”
Referring to the Punjab Government’s anti-sacrilege legislation, CM Bhagwant Singh Mann said, “The Punjab Government has enacted a strict instrumentality against sacrilege, with provisions for punishment up to beingness imprisonment, to guarantee that nary 1 dares to disrespect Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji successful future. The Almighty has bestowed maine with the work to service humanity done the Jaagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Amendment Act 2026, which stipulates harsher punishment for sacrilege.”
The Chief Minister added, “Previous rulers neither had the intent nor the volition to enact a instrumentality to cheque sacrilege, due to the fact that of which desecration of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji became a regular diagnostic during their regimes. However, the Act passed by the Punjab Government volition enactment an extremity to this due to the fact that nary 1 volition ever situation to indulge successful this unpardonable offence.”
CM Bhagwant Singh Mann further asserted, “The contiguous Punjab Government is afloat committed to the sanctity and respect of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and to ensuring strict enactment against anyone progressive successful sacrilegious acts. The authorities remains profoundly committed to Sikh values and nationalist sentiments. This onshore has witnessed times that bruised the psyche of the full Sikh Sangat. The Punjab Government has present enacted this instrumentality to guarantee that specified incidents bash not hap successful future. Only immoderate selected people, who deliberation they themselves are the panth, are opposing it due to the fact that their hands are drenched successful sacrilege incidents.”
Highlighting the Punjab Government’s healthcare initiatives, CM Bhagwant Singh Mann said, “Mukh Mantri Sehat Yojna has been launched nether which wellness cards are being issued to each 65 lakh families successful Punjab. Every household is entitled to escaped attraction up to ₹10 lakh. More than 30 lakh beneficiaries person already received wellness cards, portion 1.65 lakh radical person received escaped attraction nether this scheme. I impulse radical to instrumentality maximum payment of these cards.”
The Chief Minister further said, “The Punjab Government has started the Mawan Dheeyan Satkar Yojna nether which each pistillate volition beryllium entitled to ₹1,000 per period and women belonging to Scheduled Castes volition person ₹1,500 per month. Funds volition beryllium straight transferred into slope accounts and women already receiving societal information pensions volition besides beryllium eligible. Nearly 97% of women successful Punjab are expected to payment from the scheme, for which the Punjab Government has allocated ₹9,300 crore successful the budget.”
Cabinet Ministers Harpal Singh Cheema and Tarunpreet Singh Sond, on with others, were besides contiguous connected the occasion.
Sharing a fewer snippets connected X, CM Bhagwant Singh Mann stated: “Taking different historical measurement towards gathering the “‘Roshan Punjab’ of our dreams, contiguous an ultra-modern task to displacement energy wires underground has been launched successful colony Satoj. This inaugural volition not lone heighten the quality of villages and cities, but volition besides supply implicit extortion to municipality and agrarian areas from powerfulness cuts and accidents caused during storms and beardown winds.”
“With this project, homes, commercialized establishments and cultivation fields volition person uninterrupted, harmless and much businesslike energy supply, thereby improving the prime of beingness of each citizen. This inaugural is simply a cardinal portion of our larger imaginativeness to reconstruct Punjab arsenic a genuinely ‘Rangla Punjab’, wherever transparency and high-quality enactment are being ensured astatine each level. The AAP authorities is moving time and nighttime with implicit dedication for your work and the advancement of Punjab,” the station concluded.
