Chunni Lal Bhagat, Minister for Medical Education and Research, Punjab.
Chandigarh, May 29, 2013: The Punjab Government in order to realise its resolve to make the state drug free has launched the campaign against drug addiction. The first step in this direction is to fill up 214 posts in the three state level drug de addiction centers situated at Amritsar, Jalandhar and Patiala within three months.
This was disclosed by Chunni Lal Bhagat, Minister for Medical Education and Research, Punjab.
Bhagat said that the process for the recruitment has already been the started after the Punjab Cabinet has given its nod for the recruitment by sanctioning 214 posts for drug de addiction centers. He said that five dedicated drug de addiction centers would be operational in the state at Patiala, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Bathinda and Faridkot. He said that the government has sanctioned a fund of Rs. 25 crore for these drug de addiction centers.
The minister further said that the whole recruitment process to fill the 214 posts would be supervised by a departmental recruitment committee under the chairmanship of Dr. Talwar. He said that except the drug de addiction centers at the state level, 31 more drug de addiction centers are being set up at district and sub division level.