chandigarh after various reports of illicit collection of money from businesses and industry punjab chief minister amarinder singh on thursday directed the director general of police dgp to crackdown on the socalled goonda taxamarinder asked the dgp to identify the culprits irrespective of political or other affiliations and take stern action against them the decision came after the matter was flagged by some of the ministers in the cabinet meeting on thursday finance minister manpreet badal said his name was being vilified in the whole process that was adversely affecting business sentiment which the state government was striving hard to promotethe chief minister said such activities hinder the governments efforts to bring industrial and economic development back on track and to provide a clean and transparent environment to boost industry and investment in the stateamarinder also asked the chief secretary to monitor the work of the committee set up to check illegal mining across the state