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Development of roads top most on Mamata agenda
In what is being seen as a lesson learnt from her Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to take the ‘highway route’ to success. The Chief Minister would now focus on rebuilding the State highways to facilitate development and create employment.
The State Cabinet on Friday decided to set up a West Bengal Highways Development Corporation to work as a nodal body to develop the road network of the State. “The Chief Minister has named the new scheme as ‘golden road project’ much along the line of ‘golden quadrilateral’ project started by the NDA Government”, State Industries Minister Partho Chattopadhyay said.
“This has been a dream of the Chief Minister to improve the State’s road network in order not only to create employment but also facilitate development,” Chatterjee said after the Cabinet meeting.
The scheme would work under PPP model and a corpus fund of Rs 50 crore had been set aside to start with, the Minister said.
In an apparent move to woo the State’s minority population the Chief Minister has also decided to give Urdu the second-language status in areas where more than 10 per cent people are Urdu-speaking.
“The Cabinet also decided to earmark the areas where 10 per cent or more people are Urdu speaking where this language would be given a second-language status,” Chatterjee said, adding, “areas like Islampur in north Bengal, Goaltore in West Midnapore, Kolkata and other places would come under this scheme.”
In what is being seen as a lesson learnt from her Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to take the ‘highway route’ to success. The Chief Minister would now focus on rebuilding the State highways to facilitate development and create employment.
The State Cabinet on Friday decided to set up a West Bengal Highways Development Corporation to work as a nodal body to develop the road network of the State. “The Chief Minister has named the new scheme as ‘golden road project’ much along the line of ‘golden quadrilateral’ project started by the NDA Government”, State Industries Minister Partho Chattopadhyay said.
“This has been a dream of the Chief Minister to improve the State’s road network in order not only to create employment but also facilitate development,” Chatterjee said after the Cabinet meeting.
The scheme would work under PPP model and a corpus fund of Rs 50 crore had been set aside to start with, the Minister said.
In an apparent move to woo the State’s minority population the Chief Minister has also decided to give Urdu the second-language status in areas where more than 10 per cent people are Urdu-speaking.
“The Cabinet also decided to earmark the areas where 10 per cent or more people are Urdu speaking where this language would be given a second-language status,” Chatterjee said, adding, “areas like Islampur in north Bengal, Goaltore in West Midnapore, Kolkata and other places would come under this scheme.”
