PTI | 10:06 PM,Jun 17,2011
Kolkata, June 17 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said her government wanted the Centre to convene an early tripartite meeting on Darjeeling.Winding up the debate on the Governor's speech in the West Bengal Assembly, she said after an agreement with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha was reached at official-level talks here on June 6, the state government had immediately conveyed it to the Centre with the request that it convene a tripartite meeting to work out the final agreement.The Centre had yesterday sought a clarification from the state government on the matter and the reply had been given, she said.According to Banerjee, her government was prepared to apprise the Opposition about the agreement with the GJM at the June 6 meeting.Noting that a lot of development work like roads, bridges and industries needed to be taken up in the hills, she said she was waiting for the Centre to give a date for the tripartite meeting.On her government's development initiatives in 'junglemahal', Banerjee said she would visit there soon with a development package.She said while tribal families in junglemahal with an annual income of Rs 24,000 were earlier eligible to get rice at Rs two per kg, it would now cover those with an annual income of Rs 42,000. Non-tribal poor families with an annual income of Rs 36,000 would also be eligible to get the benefit.Maintaining that a section of the poor people had been deprived of BPL cards because of political victimisation, Banerjee said that district magistrates had been given special powers to issue BPL cards to them.
Source: http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/mamata-wants-early-tripartite-meeting-on-darjeeling/729779.html
Kolkata, June 17 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said her government wanted the Centre to convene an early tripartite meeting on Darjeeling.Winding up the debate on the Governor's speech in the West Bengal Assembly, she said after an agreement with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha was reached at official-level talks here on June 6, the state government had immediately conveyed it to the Centre with the request that it convene a tripartite meeting to work out the final agreement.The Centre had yesterday sought a clarification from the state government on the matter and the reply had been given, she said.According to Banerjee, her government was prepared to apprise the Opposition about the agreement with the GJM at the June 6 meeting.Noting that a lot of development work like roads, bridges and industries needed to be taken up in the hills, she said she was waiting for the Centre to give a date for the tripartite meeting.On her government's development initiatives in 'junglemahal', Banerjee said she would visit there soon with a development package.She said while tribal families in junglemahal with an annual income of Rs 24,000 were earlier eligible to get rice at Rs two per kg, it would now cover those with an annual income of Rs 42,000. Non-tribal poor families with an annual income of Rs 36,000 would also be eligible to get the benefit.Maintaining that a section of the poor people had been deprived of BPL cards because of political victimisation, Banerjee said that district magistrates had been given special powers to issue BPL cards to them.
Source: http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/mamata-wants-early-tripartite-meeting-on-darjeeling/729779.html