The West Bengal government on Wednesday said it is cooperating with the central teams that arrived in the state "uninvited" to assess the COVID-19 situation, and it believes that team members will not be biased in their assessment.
The state government provided the inter-ministerial central teams (IMCT) visiting Kolkata and Jalpaiguri all the information they sought, Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha told reporters.
"Neither we have invited them nor we have any specific agenda. They are doing whatever they have been told to do by the central government. They are free to contact anybody," he said.
Denying that the state government was non-cooperative with the teams, Sinha said, "Whether they are collecting negative stories or positive stories... we cannot help it."
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