She inaugurated the pension directorate branch at Uttarkanya during a public meeting at Siliguri.The branch pension directorate will start functioning at Uttarkanya from Tuesday and it will clear pension papers for retired primary and secondary teachers in North Bengal.
The CM also laid the foundation stone for a series of development projects for the region, comprising Siliguri, Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and adjoining districts, from the venue. After attending the programme, Banerjee left for Kalimpong where she will stay until 3 September. She is scheduled to leave for Kolkata on 4 September.
The chief minister also introduced more than 40 buses that will ply across north Bengal, including six rocket services under the North Bengal State Transport Corporation. Permits for 1000 non-refusal taxis were also issued. Banerjee also declared eight proposed internal road projects under the Siliguri Municipal Corporation area. She also inaugurated the renovated Dinabandhu Mancha in Siliguri. A total of Rs 3.77 crore was spent for its face-lift.
The CM laid the foundation stone for the Siliguri Gate to be built near Uttarayan, one of the three such gates proposed for Siliguri town. To develop health infrastructure, she introduced the CT scan service in the Siliguri district hospital and inaugurated two fair price medicine shops at Naxalbari and Malbazar.
Land deeds (patta) were also distributed to poor people in urban and rural areas along with bicycles for poor students, house building assistance under Geetanjali scheme and other forms of assistance. Banerjee inaugurated the vertically extended building of the Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy Government College at Matigara in Siliguri and other projects.
‘You all know an airport-town is coming up at Andal. We have decided to start flight services between Coochbehar, Durgapur and Kolkata. We want to develop North Bengal as an industrial belt’, said Banerjee.
‘We are trying our best to overhaul the transport sector in North Bengal. Boosting transport will boost trade in the region’, she said. Permits were issued for 1000 non-refusal taxis on Monday. A project worth Rs 600 crore to develop a express highway in this region was taken up. A passport office in Siliguri is also in the pipeline, she announced.
The CM also laid the foundation stone for a series of development projects for the region, comprising Siliguri, Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and adjoining districts, from the venue. After attending the programme, Banerjee left for Kalimpong where she will stay until 3 September. She is scheduled to leave for Kolkata on 4 September.
The chief minister also introduced more than 40 buses that will ply across north Bengal, including six rocket services under the North Bengal State Transport Corporation. Permits for 1000 non-refusal taxis were also issued. Banerjee also declared eight proposed internal road projects under the Siliguri Municipal Corporation area. She also inaugurated the renovated Dinabandhu Mancha in Siliguri. A total of Rs 3.77 crore was spent for its face-lift.
The CM laid the foundation stone for the Siliguri Gate to be built near Uttarayan, one of the three such gates proposed for Siliguri town. To develop health infrastructure, she introduced the CT scan service in the Siliguri district hospital and inaugurated two fair price medicine shops at Naxalbari and Malbazar.
Land deeds (patta) were also distributed to poor people in urban and rural areas along with bicycles for poor students, house building assistance under Geetanjali scheme and other forms of assistance. Banerjee inaugurated the vertically extended building of the Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy Government College at Matigara in Siliguri and other projects.
‘You all know an airport-town is coming up at Andal. We have decided to start flight services between Coochbehar, Durgapur and Kolkata. We want to develop North Bengal as an industrial belt’, said Banerjee.
‘We are trying our best to overhaul the transport sector in North Bengal. Boosting transport will boost trade in the region’, she said. Permits were issued for 1000 non-refusal taxis on Monday. A project worth Rs 600 crore to develop a express highway in this region was taken up. A passport office in Siliguri is also in the pipeline, she announced.