West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today urged a group of chief ministers, set up by the Centre, to consider the need to waive institutional loans of farmers and the formation of adequate budgetary provision for it by the union government.
The central government on June 19 constituted a chief ministers' sub-group to coordinate policy approaches for
Citing example of the Bengal's government's Jal Dharo Jal Bharo scheme, she stated that schemes for recharging ground water should be taken up as priority through convergence with the schemes for water harvesting and "MGNREGS funds should be used along with other departmental funds for this purpose."
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