Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria has suggested the inclusion of the state’s border blocks under Aspirational Districts and Aspirational Blocks Programmes. He said, these blocks require a robust framework to ensure that they are not left behind in the nation’s developmental journey.

He was presiding over the ‘Sampooranta Abhiyaan Samman Samaroh’ organised to recognize the outstanding achievements of districts and blocks under NITI Aayog’s Aspirational Districts and Aspirational Blocks Programmes (ABP) in Chandigarh, yesterday. The Governor said that the government can leverage targeted transformation and convergence-based action to fill the void left by previous funding structures by integrating these border area blocks into the Aspirational framework. He said that true development is not measured by fast progress but by the upliftment of the weaker section of the society.