BALURGHAT: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will visit South Dinajpur next week to hold administrative review meetings with district administrative officials, an official source of administration said here on Friday. It will be her first visit to this district after Lok Sabha elections.
Banerjee is scheduled to attend review meetings on November 19 at Gangarampur stadium with the top-level officers to get acquainted with the progress of the ongoing projects which were recently undertaken by the state government.
She earlier had visited Balurghat on April 19 to campaign for LS poll.
District magistrate Nikhil Nirmal asked senior administrative officials to complete progress reports involving various development projects that have been taken up by the administration over the past one year.
Officials of several departments are now being involved in conducting meetings and forwarding matters to the district administration's core committee which has been set up exclusively for the chief minister's visit.
"We are really facing tough time to prepare all the papers and documents to be produced before the CM. Leaves have been cancelled and work is going on even on holidays," said a senior officer.
According to him, maximum focus has been given on to the projects related to health, road construction and bridges. The stress is also being imposed on the overall progress of 100 days' work.
The current progress of the projects for the school children like Kanyasree and Shikshasree are said to have given topmost priority.
Senior Trinamool leader and Gangarampur municipality chairman Amalendu Sarkar said her visit would trigger the party workers to take on the opposition onslaught.
"With the crucial assembly election approaching the visit would politically significant for the party," he said.