Clear Bengal’s Dues To Help Fight COVID-19: Mamata Banerjee To PM
“There’s a want for a separate fund to struggle the pandemic,” Mamata Banerjee mentioned
Kolkata:
West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday requested the Centre to transparent all monetary dues of the state to assist it struggle the COVID-19 pandemic successfully.
Ms Banerjee, all through a web based programme the place High Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated new checking out amenities in West Bengal, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, additionally sought the introduction of a separate fund for the preventing the illness.
She additionally mentioned that the cash from the state’s crisis reduction fund used to be getting used for rehabilitation paintings after cyclone Amphan.
“I’d request the central govt to transparent the monetary dues of the state right away. We’re but to get our dues of Rs 53,000 crore. If we utilise all cash from the state crisis reduction fund for post-cyclone recovery works, how are we meant to struggle the pandemic,” the Leader Minister mentioned all through the web programme.
Cyclone Amphan had struck West Bengal on Would possibly 20, leaving at the back of a path of destruction
“There’s a want for a separate fund to struggle the pandemic. I’d request you (the high minister) to appear into it,” she added.
