Thanks To Mamata Banerjee, LPG To Cost Rs16 Less In Bengal

To provide some cushion for people affected by the Center for the cooking gas price hike of Rs50 per cylinder, Prime Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee decided to leave the country process of Rs16 per LPG cylinder with immediate effect.

Singur Bill to be tabled in WB assembly tomorrow

The West Bengal government will table a Bill in the Assembly tomorrow seeking to revoke the Singur lease agreement with the Tatas and take back the land leased to them.

The Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Bill, 2011, will be introduced, considered and passed by the House, Minister of state for Parliamentary Affairs Manoj Chakraborty said after an all-party meeting prior to the Assembly session.

The state cabinet met on the Assembly premises to give final shape to the Bill, he said.

The state government had earlier decided to bring the Bill after dropping an ordinance with the House session preponed from June 24 to today.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said that her government is committed to return the 400 acre to unwilling farmers, and the remaining 600 for the industry.

Stating that the Budget session would be brief, Çhakraborty said that after the Governor's customary address, the House would deliberate on the discussion on the motion of thanks to his address on June 15, 16 and 17 before adoption.

Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal friendly railway budget for 2011-12

New Delhi, Feb 25 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS) With an eye on the crucial assembly elections in West Bengal, Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee presented a populist no-hike, Bengal-friendly Railway Budget for 2011-12 amid noisy scenes and protests from Bihar lawmakers.

There was no hike in passenger fare or freight as the Minister presented a populist budget as anticipated.

On expected lines Mamata Banerjee declared more projects for West Bengal, amid protests by Bihar leaders like Lalu Prasad and Sharad Yadav

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called it a common man’s budget, while the Opposition criticized it with the communists, her political rivals in West Bengal, slamming the minister for failing to implement the earlier projects she announced.

She said the metro railway network of Kolkata will expand while a metro coach factory will be set up near Singur and a rail industrial park in Nandigram in West Bengal.

She admitted that the Railway is passing through a difficult phase and announced to raise Rs 10,000 crore via bonds.

She also announced shelters for thousands of homeless, giving a human face to the budget.

Across India, however, passengers reacted to lack of safety measures for passengers.

“It is an election budget. I am happy with the projects and trains announced but passenger safety has been ignored as before,” said a commuter at Howrah Station in Kolkata.

A total of 56 new express trains were proposed in the Railway Budget.

Three Shatabdi Trains will be introduced in the coming fiscal year. These proposed new Shatabdis are: Pune-Secunderabad, Jaipur-Agra and Ludhiana-Delhi.

The Minister also announced that two double decker AC services on Jaipur-Delhi and Ahmedabad-Mumbai routes.

Mamata Banerjee has announced the introduction to nine new Duronto Trains across different regions of the country. The proposed Duronto Trains are:Allahabad-Mumbai AC Duronto (bi-weekly); Pune-Ahmedabad AC Duronto (tri-weekly); Sealdah-Puri non AC Duronto (tri-weekly); Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam AC Duronto (tri-weekly); Madurai-Chennai AC Duronto (bi-weekly); Chennai-Thiruvananthapuram AC Duronto (bi-weekly);

Mumbai Central-New Delhi AC Duronto (bi-weekly); Nizamuddin-Ajmer non-AC Duronto (bi-weekly) and Shalimar-Patna Duronto (tri-weekly).

Mamata Banerjee announced that 1000 km of three sections will be electrified during the ensuing financial year. The sections on which electrification work will be taken up are

Vizianagaram-Rayagada-

Titlagarh-Raipur, Rosa-Sitapur-Burhwal and Alwar-Rewari.

Feasibility studies will be taken up for other sections, she said.

Mamata said a Central Organization for Project Implementation (COPI) will be set up with offices in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Bangalore to ensure timely project execution and proper utilization of funds allotted for works.

Highlights of Railway Budget 2011-12

No hike in passenger fare and freight rates.

Highest ever Plan outlay of Rs. 57, 630 crore proposed for Railways.

Rs. 9,583 crore provided for new lines.

Left Front licks its wounds, turnaround tough | IBN

Left Front is busy defeat their wounds after the thrashing in West Bengal municipal elections in the hands of Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress.

TMC leads in Kolkata, close race in Bengal

Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress to take a big lead in Kolkata municipal managers in 71 departments out of one hundred and forty-Left Front is far behind the leader in only 41 divisions, while the Congress is leading in three seats, while the other smaller parties ahead in two.

BJP slams Mamata, CPM for spat, seeks PM intervention | Indian Express

Taking a strong exemption to the political war of words between the Trinamool Congress and CPM over Jnaneswari Express tragedy came the opposition BJP Sunday down heavily on the Railways Minister and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee and sought the Prime Minister's interference in the substance.

Nitish Comes To Mamata’s Rescue

Patna (BiharTimes): When it comes Mamata Banerjee BJP and the Janata Dal (United) to the Antipodes. While the BJP spokesman, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, on Sunday slammed Trinamool Congress leader and asked him for absenteeism Railway Minister Nitish, as if the accident soon became a strong supporter.

New tension Between Congress

Trinamool Congress has called for the assembly polls early Bengal. Mamata Banerjee has even been a month - October of this year and in May of next year. But it seems a little fuzzy. At a rally Friday in Kolkata Trinamool leader said the president Rules of Procedure and opinion polls are inevitable, but Mamata dropped a bomb. He did not request the imposition of Article 356 of the State.

The Trinamool, Mamata Banerjee has the last word and follow his call in recent days on the vote of the General Assembly in Bengal in October, the MP revealed the plan.

"If the political situation in the state of the state government has been disrupted, as it is today, and the central government and reject the use of Article 356 and to keep polls in the 55 days, while the decision should not be sent Sabha in October, "said Sudip Bandopadhyay, Trinamool MP.