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Mamata announces number of projects for Jalpaiguri

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Press Trust of India Jalpaiguri (WB)

In Doors, a Rs 50 crore project has been sanctioned to develop it as a tourist area while to develop roads in Jaldapara for tourism, Rs 18 crore will be spent, Banerjee told reporters here.

In Jalpaiguri district, she said they have taken up a Rs 15 crore project for developing drinking water facilities.

Three multi-speciality hospitals will be built in the Shilapata forest area besides building modern villages at an expenses of Rs 4 crore.

In Jalpaiguri town, a sports complex would come up at a cost of Rs 19 crore while an indoor stadium would be built in Alipurduar, she said.

 

Two film cities would also be made, one each in Jalpaiguri and Siliguri.

Besides 100 upper primary schools, two ITI colleges and a new polytechnic college would also be built, the CM announced.

In Banarhat, a Hindi college would come up while in Raiganj and Dhupguri areas, two colleges would be built, Banerjee said.

In the healthcare segment, ten new child care units would be built up in north Bengal.

She also said she will lay the foundation stone of a circuit bench in the district in August.

To encourage women self-help groups, she said they have now increased the subsidy to 30 per cent.

  

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First Published: Jul 10 2012 | 9:36 PM IST

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