Chandigarh, Aug. 21 -- Chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Wednesday said the state has set a new milestone by giving more than 55,000 jobs to the youth during the first three years of its regime.

Addressing a gathering while distributing appointment letters, Mann said, "The previous governments gave miniscule number of jobs to the youth at the fag-end of their tenure but ever since his first day in office, he has made sure that the deserving youth get jobs due to which 55,000 of them have got government jobs."

The CM said that today 271 youth have joined the family of the Punjab government and now they will become an active partner in social and economic progress of the state.

He said that it is a matter of satisfaction that these y...