Mamata reviews ministers’ performance
August 24th, 2011 - 11:53 pm ICT by IANSKolkata, Aug 24 (IANS) With her government nearing its first 100 days, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday reviewed the performances of all the ministers and asked them to shoulder responsibility for the projects being implemented by their respective departments.
“This was a historic meeting. She did a A-Z review of the performance of all the departments. We discussed the problems and the bottlenecks,” Finance Minister Amit Mitra told media persons after emerging from the deliberations.
“Chief minister has said that the money allocated in the budget for respective departments should reach the people and the projects should be completed. She has said that the money received by the ministry for the projects is the money of the masses and it should reach the masses,” he said.
In case of projects lagging behind, the reasons were identified.
“From now on, every few month such meetings will be held,” Mitra said.
Asked whether people were singled out for non-performance, he denied it.
“No, no such thing happened today. The meeting was not called to pull up anybody”.
The chief minister also asked all her colleagues to take the onus for every project being implemented by their respective departments, he added.
Mitra said for projects were only 50 percent of the allocated funds have been released, the departments would have to spend that amount first, take a completion certificate and then submit the proposal for the remaining 50 percent of the project cost.
He said for projects being jointly carried out by the central and state governments, if the central funds were yet to be received, and then the departments would have to complete their part of the work.
“Banerjee has said that in case of centre-state partnership projects where the partnership ratio is 9:1, then the state department should take its 10 percent from the finance ministry and implement the work so that central funds can be availed,” Mitra said.
The Mamata Banerjee government, which was sworn in May 20, completes 100 days Saturday.
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