12-Point Agenda

Develop a transparent household-debt relief programme, affordable cooperative refinancing and protection from exploitative private lending. Publish clear eligibility rules, costs and implementation stages before launch.

Proposed action

Prepare a transparent household-debt relief and cooperative refinancing framework, with published eligibility rules, costs and stages before launch.

Expected public benefit

Families gain a lawful route out of high-cost private borrowing and less fear of coercive recovery.

Create fair economic opportunities through quality public services, dignified wages, social protection, access to credit and support for local enterprise.

Proposed action

Strengthen public services, social protection and access to fair credit, and support local enterprise that creates work near home.

Expected public benefit

A narrower gap between rich and poor, and a fairer chance for families with the least support.

Develop an affordable housing programme for eligible homeless and inadequately housed families, with transparent beneficiary selection, land planning and construction-quality standards.

Proposed action

Develop an affordable housing programme with transparent beneficiary selection, planned land use and enforced construction standards.

Expected public benefit

Eligible homeless and poorly housed families move toward safe, dignified shelter.

Promote dignity, safety and equal respect for daughters and daughters-in-law. Support the lawful and voluntary choice of consenting adults to marry across caste or community boundaries and oppose caste-based discrimination, harassment and violence.

Proposed action

Promote dignity, safety and equal respect for daughters and daughters-in-law, and oppose caste-based discrimination, harassment and violence.

Expected public benefit

Safer families and communities where women are treated with equal respect.

Work toward free, high-quality public education from early childhood through higher education, vocational training and adult learning, supported by qualified teachers, modern facilities and transparent standards.

Proposed action

Strengthen public education from early childhood to higher, vocational and adult learning with qualified teachers and modern facilities.

Expected public benefit

Children learn without their family’s income deciding the quality of their schooling.

Build a strong public-health system providing essential consultations, diagnostics, medicines, emergency care, maternal care, mental-health support and rehabilitation services free at the point of delivery.

Proposed action

Build public-health capacity for consultations, diagnostics, medicines, emergency, maternal, mental-health and rehabilitation services.

Expected public benefit

Illness stops pushing families into debt or forcing them to sell assets.

Propose a minimum daily wage of ₹1,600 for eight hours of work, with overtime paid separately. Develop a skill-based employment framework targeting monthly salaries from ₹75,000 to ₹2,50,000 according to qualifications, experience, productivity and industry.

Proposed action

Propose fair wage standards and a skill-based employment framework, developed with employers, workers and expert review.

Expected public benefit

Work pays enough to live with dignity, and skills are rewarded fairly.

Review and reduce avoidable state-level taxes, fees and compliance burdens within Punjab’s constitutional authority while protecting essential public services and financial stability. Central taxes cannot be abolished by the Punjab Government.

Proposed action

Review avoidable state-level taxes, fees and compliance burdens within Punjab’s constitutional authority, protecting essential services.

Expected public benefit

Lower avoidable costs for households and small businesses, without weakening public services.

Give elected farmer representatives and farmer-producer organisations a formal role in determining remunerative crop prices based on production costs, family labour, risk and a fair profit margin, supported by legally enforceable procurement mechanisms.

Proposed action

Give elected farmer representatives a formal role in crop-price decisions, backed by dependable procurement arrangements.

Expected public benefit

Prices reflect real production costs, so farming remains a viable livelihood.

Establish 2,100 professionally managed cooperative or public-interest grocery stores across Punjab to provide essential goods at fair prices, create local employment and offer transparent opportunities to local producers and suppliers.

Proposed action

Establish professionally managed cooperative or public-interest grocery stores with published price lists and open supplier opportunities.

Expected public benefit

Essential goods at fair prices, plus local jobs and fair access for local producers.