Jalandhar: Punjab government today decided to set up an advisory board on NRI grievances and said it will take up with the centre the issue of innocent Sikhs living abroad figuring in the "black list" prepared during the period of militancy.
It will also open a single-window system here for clearing projects with NRI investment and a special office near Amritsar to listen to their grievances.
"The proposed advisory board will have 11 members with representation from NRIs and senior officials of government," Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal told reporters at the conclusion of the two-day Punjabi NRI Sammelan.
He said their main grievances related to encroachment of properties in the state and he had directed the DGP to prepare a complete list of such cases in a month. The issue of the black list of Sikhs would also be taken up with the centre so that names of "innocent youths can be cleared at the earliest," he said.
