A delegation of Punjab Congress leaders led by Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa Wednesday met Governor Gulab Chand Kataria and submitted a request to withhold assent to the Punjab Town Improvement (Amendment) Bill, 2025 and to reserve it for the consideration of the President of India.

Partap Bajwa, Aruna Chaudhary, Rana KP Singh, OP Soni, Vikram Chaudhry submitted the joint request to the governor.

The representation stated that the original Punjab Town Improvement Act, 1922 created Improvement Trusts as area-specific, quasi-autonomous bodies to conceive, finance and execute improvement schemes—street layouts, slum clearance, housing, trunk infrastructure—within the municipal area concerned. Their finances were designed to be ring-fenced: receipts from scheme land disposal, bette

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