The Centre has launched Rs 5.36 lakh crore to West Bengal within the final 5 years, the Narendra Modi authorities has disclosed to counter allegations of pending dues made by the Mamata Banerjee-led state authorities. Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress had amped up the assault on the BJP and the central authorities within the run-up to Lok Sabha elections and had pegged the problem as ‘Banglar Bonchona’ (depriving Bengal) in Sunday’s mega rally in Kolkata.
Throughout an earlier dharna to demand the wages of 21 lakh MGNREGA employees within the state, Mamata Banerjee had alleged that the Centre “thinks it would starve Bengal to loss of life”.
The Centre has maintained that there are discrepancies and suspected corruption in Mahatma Gandhi Nationwide Rural Employment Assure Act (MGNREGA) work in Bengal which is why it had paused the funds.
With the TMC portray the BJP as ‘anti-Bengal’ forward of Lok Sabha elections, the Modi authorities has come out with numbers to assert that, within the final 5 years, it launched Rs 5.36 lakh crore to West Bengal, which is over and above the meals subsidy value Rs 80,000 crore and fertilizer subsidy value Rs 30,000 crore given to beneficiaries in Bengal.
SPENT 170% MORE ON BENGAL’S POOR THAN UPA: MODI GOVT
The central authorities mentioned it has launched Rs 93,171 crore to West Bengal for rural improvement. Curiously, Bengal has been the best recipient of rural improvement grants in six of the final 10 monetary years.
Whereas Rs 2,151 crore was launched for the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen), Rs 13,649 crore was launched for the state’s city improvement. Giving specifics, the Modi authorities mentioned it sanctioned 4,89,959 homes beneath the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana in city areas alone. The Centre was additionally fast to level out that free meals grain was given to six crore individuals in Bengal.
Dismissing allegations of depriving Bengal, the Centre pointed to how there was a 170% rise in expenditure on rural improvement within the state from the UPA period to the Modi period.
CENTRE’S SPEND ON BENGAL TRIBALS & WOMEN
Detailing the way it has spent a large sum on totally different sections of Bengal’s society, the Centre highlighted it launched Rs 834 crore for tribal welfare and Rs 5,744 crore for girls’s improvement within the final six years.
In scholarships alone, Bengal’s tribals obtained Rs 231 crore, the Centre mentioned. In the meantime, out of the Rs 5,744 crore for girls’s improvement, Rs 5,239 crore was launched for the Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0. Moreover, Rs 171 crore was launched for Mission Vatsalya and Rs 334 crore was launched for Mission Shakti, all meant to assist the ladies of the state.
As many as 14 lakh financial institution accounts have been opened for lady youngsters of West Bengal beneath the Sukanya Samrdhi Yojna, in keeping with particulars given by the central authorities.
RS 15,000 CRORE RELEASED FOR BENGAL ROADS
The Narendra Modi authorities mentioned it launched Rs 15,675 crore for Bengal street tasks, Rs 19,483 crore for growing railway infra and Rs 16,300 crore for tasks beneath ports, waterways and Sagarmala.
It additionally cited tasks value Rs 24,000 crore by defence PSUs. It recalled the multimodal terminal in Haldia which was accomplished beneath the Modi authorities. The Centre additionally cited the 173% rise in railway price range allocation from the Manmohan Singh period to the Narendra Modi period.
HELPING BENGAL’S FARMERS
Making certain farmer welfare, the Modi authorities gave Rs 30,000 crore in fertilizer subsidies within the final 5 years to Bengal and cited the discharge of Rs 8,492 crore beneath the PM-KISAN scheme.
Round 20 lakh kisan bank cards with a mixed restrict of greater than Rs 10,000 crore have been sanctioned, whereas Rs 230 crore grants in assist have been authorised beneath Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana for Bengal. The latter will immediately profit 1.62 lakh farmers, the federal government mentioned.
It cited the discharge of Rs 283 crore for the animal husbandry sector within the final six years and Rs 78 crore beneath the Blue Revolution to assist the fisheries sector.
SCHEMES FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT THE MOST
Beneath the PM Jan Dhan Yojna, 5.07 crore financial institution accounts had been opened for monetary inclusion. Beneath the PM Suraksha Bima Yojna, 2.75 crore enrolments for accident insurance coverage passed off. Beneath PM Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana, 1 crore enrollments for all times insurance coverage passed off, whereas over 48 lakh individuals subscribed to the Atal Pension Yojana.
Over Rs 195 crore has been disbursed to 1.79 lakh beneficiaries beneath the PM SVANidhi scheme. Round Rs 2.37 lakh crore has been given beneath PM Mudra Yojana ever since its launch, the central authorities mentioned.
VIKSIT BENGAL = VIKSIT BHARAT
This appears to be the tenet of the Centre’s expenditure sample, say these related to many state challenge implementations. As many as 29 main tasks have been accomplished within the final 10 years.
Beneath the Jal Marg Vikas Challenge for capability augmentation of nationwide waterways, Bengal’s Haldia-Varanasi route obtained a brand new lease of life, whereas the cargo dealing with capability of Shyama Prasad Mookerjee Port in Kolkata surged manifold from 70.85 MTPA to 92.77 MTPA.
Within the medical discipline, the Centre arrange three ESIC hospitals in Darjeeling, North 24 Parganas and Paschim Medinipur within the final 5 years whereas establishing 359 Jan Aushadhi shops within the state that present medicines at inexpensive charges.
The Ramakrishna Mission in Kolkata has obtained greater than Rs 34 crore monetary help, greater than Rs 5 crore has been launched to Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Basis, and greater than Rs 16 lakh has been given to improve the Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya in Barrackpore, the Centre mentioned.
The Centre additionally offered Rs 30 crore for the event of Belur Math and ensured that Rabindranath Tagore’s Santiniketan grew to become a World Heritage Web site, the federal government mentioned.
