The BJP-led central government had stopped 90 per cent of its funds for the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) and other development programmes for farmers, poor and middle-class people, she alleged at a public meeting here in Nadia district.
"But we have not stopped a single project and have kept all of them alive by contributing adequate funds from our own resources, despite financial constraints," the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo added.
"Gradually, the Centre will stop funding all the projects, but we will run them in the interest of the people at our own cost. (The Centre should) take lessons from Bengal as regards what we have done for the farmers," Banerjee said.
She urged the people to vote for the TMC in the upcoming panchayat polls, so that the development projects in the state continued.
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Banerjee alleged that 90 per cent of the funds for ICDS were stopped, besides a drastic reduction in the allocation in the 100-days' work under the MGNREGA and other central schemes.
Stating that her government had done various development works for the benefit of the people, Banerjee announced the construction of 12,000 kms of rural roads across West Bengal, which would connect the villages with the state or national highways.
The panchayats and rural development department would undertake the work, she said, adding that once completed, rural connectivity in the state would reach a new height.
The chief minister also said that Nabadwip town, considered to have been founded in 1063 AD, would soon emerge as a heritage site and Mayapur, famous for its ISKCON temple, as a world heritage site.
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