Mamata asks all depts to get cracking

In the past five years, Banerjee has banished fear from the minds of the people of Junglemahal by improving infrastructure that include a bridge at Lalgargh, ITI, super-specialty hospital and a degree college in the area.

On Friday, Banerjee presided over the first state-level administrative review meeting at Town Hall after coming to power for the second term. Ministers of all departments along with senior officials, DGP Surajit Kar Purkayastha, District Magistrates and superintendents of police of all the districts attended the meeting where the present status of various on-going projects were reviewed and directions were given to expedite the development work as only nine months are left to complete the targeted task of this fiscal for which the Finance Department has already disbursed Rs 11,573 crore. 

The ongoing projects have been reviewed and concerned departments including Power, Panchayat and Rural Development, transport, Forest, IT and Fisheries have been urged to take necessary steps to complete the projects within the stipulated time. At the meeting, all the departments were asked to send daily reports to Nabanna at around 1 pm every day. It will help the Chief Minister track the progress of work on a daily basis.

Banerjee said after the meeting that the state’s planned expenditure for 2015-16 fiscal stood at Rs 49,507 crore but for the first time in the country’s history West Bengal government’s expenditure was Rs 4000 crore more than the planned expenditure. The expenditure in the fiscal was Rs 53,010 crore. Again the budgeted figure was around 25 per cent more than the previous year. It has gone up to 

Rs 49,507 crore from Rs 39,444 crore.

The chief minister said: “Our mission is to make the state number one in the world. This time our slogan is Bangla Hobe Biswa Sera (Bengal will be the best place in the world).”

Banerjee said that Friday’s meeting was the 122nd one. She held 105 administrative meeting in the districts in her first term and she would continue holding administrative review meetings in districts and it will begin in Jhargram in West Midnapore on June 14.

She said that there were around 65 per cent institutional deliveries in the state. “We have achieved 10 per cent more than our target. Institutional delivery in Malda and North Dinajpur have not been up to the mark. Directions have been given to improve the status in these two districts as well,” she said adding that the target in this respect was 90 per cent.

There will be power in every home in the state by July. She said that some departments of the state government are already regarded as the best in the country. All the departments in the state have to be better than their counterparts in the rest of the country, she said.