Patiala, March 8 -- Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann handed over job letters to over 2,400 youths in a state-level function here in Sangrur on Thursday.

Mann said during the past two years, government jobs have been given to around 43,000 youngsters. Of the total 2,487, 1,750 youngsters have been recruited in the Home department, 205 in social security women and child development, 39 in revenue, 60 in the excise department, 421 in the local government department, four in cooperation, and eight in the technical education department.

He said his government assumed the charge of office on March 16, 2022, and since then, they had been giving government jobs to youngsters. He targeted previous governments in the state, saying jobs were gi...