Badal's Tirath Yatra scrapped
Chandigarh, June 21, 2017: Amarinder government has stopped the Chief Minister's Tirath Yatra scheme started by previous Badal government in 2016.
The announcement to discontinue this scheme was made by Finance Minister Manpreet Badal in Punjab Vidhan Sabha today.
In a reply to the question by Parminder Pinky of Congress, the FM told the House that more than Rs 139 crore were spent on this scheme and most the of the payments are due for which provision has been made in the budget .
There was no proposal to continue this scheme, he said.