Mamata Banerjee Criticises BJP For Abolishing Making plans Fee

Kolkata:

Hitting out on the BJP-led executive on the Centre for abolishing the Making plans Fee conceptualised via Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday mentioned that her executive would get a hold of a an identical frame to take ahead the nationalistic chief’s concepts and imaginative and prescient.

She prompt Nobel laureate economists Amartya Sen and Abhijit Banerjee, and Subhas Chandra Bose’s grandnephew Sugata Bose, a historian and previous Trinamool Congress MP, to advise the state executive in this.

“The Making plans Fee has been dissolved via the central executive. They’ve named the brand new frame (which changed the Making plans Fee) Niti Aayog or Niti Niyog, I have no idea. It does no longer have any ideology, nor any approach (to paintings). Previous, I used to head for conferences of the Making plans Fee which sought ideas from every state. Now we can not proportion our perspectives,” Ms Banerjee mentioned.

The Narendra Modi executive disbanded the Making plans Fee in 2014 and had shaped the Niti Aayog.

“We will be able to get started a Bengal Making plans Fee to take Netaji’s imaginative and prescient to the sector stage,” Ms Banerjee informed newshounds after a gathering of a committee arrange via the TMC executive to plot year-long celebrations to mark the 125th delivery anniversary of the liberty fighter.

She additionally demanded that Netaji”s birthday on January 23 be declared a countrywide vacation.

Ms Banerjee additionally stressed out on her call for that the Centre declassify all of the recordsdata on Netaji.

“Now we have already achieved it (declassified some recordsdata). We’re tough that the Centre declassify all recordsdata associated with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose,” she mentioned.

Abhijit Banerjee and different individuals of the committee attended the digital assembly.

Netaji’s birthday on January 23 might be celebrated as ”Desh Nayak Divas” in West Bengal, Ms Banerjee mentioned including {that a} ”Azad Hind Fauj” monument might be quickly erected in Rajarhat space of Kolkata.

The executive minister additionally proposed forming a ”Jai Hind Bahini” alongside the traces of the Nationwide Cadet Corps in state-run colleges and faculties in reminiscence of Netaji.

Elaborating on it, she mentioned the Jai Hind Bahini might be like the federal government’s flagship ”Kanyashree” venture. Those that sign up for it’s going to get precedence in getting scholarships and might be educated via the federal government.

“We will be able to be making an investment the cash for the long run era. The schools and college and the training division will take the initiative to offer fellowships to these within the Bahini,” she mentioned.

She advocated a brief movie or a documentary on Netaji for schoolchildren.

But even so, a CD of songs associated with Netaji may also be introduced out, she mentioned including the state executive will arrange a ”nationwide college” named after Netaji.

“We will be able to arrange a countrywide college with out taking assist from any one. This college may have hyperlinks to global magnificence universities like Havard, Cambridge and Oxford,” she introduced.

The executive minister mentioned that on Netaji’s birthday a rally might be organised from Shyambazar in north Kolkata to

Pink Highway within the central a part of the town. A tableaux at the lifetime of Netaji might be taken out throughout the Republic Day parade right here on January 26, whilst throughout this 12 months’s Independence Day rally might be themed at the nationalistic chief.