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“Improving infrastructure is absolutely essential for the
state's economic growth. We have initiated systematic studies to focus on road connectivity
and building a logistic hub. For the latter, we have started working in tandem with
Singapore companies.
In education, we are in a state of expansion from the primary to secondary level.
New schools and colleges are coming up. We are focusing primarily on improving the
quality of education.
We have to stress on everything -- agriculture, industry, trade, education, science
and culture.
If we aim to make our state a hot economic destination, the sky should be the limit.”
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"The focal point of success is the regime of redistributive
land reforms because of which the rural poor is in possession of land parcels of
varying sizes. The success has been achieved through a series of hard struggles
and not merely through administrative regulations. The work of the administration
also comprised the physical transfer of land rights in the shape of patta deeds
to the rural poor and the landless.
Around 84 per cent of the total mass of agricultural land (amounting to 1.35 crore
acres) is in the hands of the rural poor. There has also been the setting up and
the running of panchayati raj institutions. The panchayats could be organised and
run by the rural people because the land belongs to them now. This has in turn influenced
the great success we have had in agricultural production. We lead the country in
terms of producing rice, jute, potato, vegetables, fruits, flowers etc. " |
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“The task of land reforms and transfer of land to the kisans
and the rural poor was certainly done based on the widest possible consensus. The
consensus was available because the programme was of anti-zamindar character and
was also an exercise in democracy. However, on the issue of private capital that
is connected with the process of industrialisation (we do not have any viable alternative
to this) a confusion has been created amongst the ranks of the opposition parties,
the LF constituents, and even amongst a section of the mass of the people.
At the same time, there is consensus in that everybody would say that they, too,
would like to welcome industrialisation, and that they do not stand opposed to it.
The debate is principally built up around the mode and method adopted. We have to
reach a consensus here through discussion. We are fully seized of the indecision
that the LF constituents are affected by on the question of private capital, big
capital, and capital of the MNCs.”
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“The decision of Infosys to invest in West Bengal is a
major boost for the IT industry in the state.”
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