Chandigarh: AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann launched a state government scheme to deliver citizen-centric services at people's doorstep, with the senior leader calling it a hammer blow on corruption.
Under the "Bhagwant Mann Sarkar Tuhade Dwar" scheme, people will get 43 services, including certificates of birth, marriage, death, income, residence, caste, rural area, border area, backward area, pension, payment of electricity bills and land demarcation.
Addressing a gathering after the launch of the scheme, Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal called it "revolutionary". Lauding the Mann government, Kejriwal said it was taking steps one after another against corruption and is conducting raids against and arresting big leaders who "looted" Punjab in the last 75 years.
He said freedom fighters did not sacrifice their lives for people to face harassment at government offices even after freedom. They sacrificed their lives so that people get good education, quality health, medicines, roads and electricity, said the Delhi CM.
But in the last 75 years, with the kind of system in the country, people face a lot of harassment at government offices for getting even a small work done, he said. "The work that is going to commence in Punjab is no less than a revolution. It is a revolutionary step," said Kejriwal.
He spoke about the plight of people visiting government offices for getting their work done.