Mamata Banerjee Launches “Govt At Doorstep” Scheme. Ballot Stunt, Says BJP
Kolkata:
From December 1, West Bengal will release an initiative to take govt services and products to the doorsteps of other folks. ‘Duare Duare Sarkar’ or govt on the doorstep. That is the title of the initiative that Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee introduced at Khatra in Bankura district these days. To run until Gandhi Jayanti on January 30, the initiative will attempt to ship pending services and products to other folks.
“From 11 am to three pm on a daily basis from December 1, govt camps can be held in each and every block within the state the place other folks can come and insist any carrier they have got now not gained but. We will be able to attempt to supply it straight away. If that’s not imaginable, names of all candidates can be indexed and the services and products delivered in all probability to 10 other folks at a time,” Ms Banerjee stated.
The brand new scheme met with complaint from state BJP leader Dilip Ghosh. “Simply sooner than elections, you keep in mind adivasis (tribals) and jangalmahal (that incorporates tribal ruled districts of Bankura, Purulia, West Midnapore and Jhargram). Other folks have understood such bulletins are being made only for the polls. She is speaking about training for adivasi ladies now. What was once she doing for 10 years?”
Ms Banerjee introduced 100 according to cent scholarship for adivasi scholars and promised housing to people who have not were given one but, amongst different services and products. The management was once additionally requested to hurry up distribution of bicycles underneath the Sabuj Sathi scheme.
Ms Banerjee stated in lots of central initiatives, younger other folks were given jobs however as soon as the scheme had run its route, then the whole lot close down they usually was jobless. “I met a number of younger individuals who informed me this. However in Bengal, there has now not been a unmarried such case with regards to state-run schemes,” she stated.
“They take our cash and ship a share again. For 100 days paintings, cash is available in three months. Why? Other folks will have to get it inside 7 days. I’ve by no means minimize jobs. I’ve greater age restrict for task utility eligibility. Within the nation, unemployment has greater by way of 49 according to cent. We’ve diminished it by way of 40 according to cent in Bengal,” Ms Banerjee stated.
The brand new scheme and Ms Banerjee’s focal point on building paintings in Bankura and the neighbouring district is being seen as a response to House Minister Amit Shah’s talk over with on November five to Bankura, the place he ate on the house of a Dalit circle of relatives and garlanded a tribal hunter’s statue. The latter has since became debatable because the statue was once idea to had been that of Birsa Muna, the tribal freedom fighter who was once hanged to dying at age 25 within the yr 1900.