Darjeeling MP Raju Bista accuses state of neglect
After chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s criticism of Darjeeling MP Raju Bista, the latter hit back with a strong counterattack, responding to her remarks.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today expressed her desire to help out journalists facing retrenchment by framing laws to ensure job security.
“We will try to bring in legislation in the state Assembly for the journalists facing retrenchment to protect their jobs. For this, I will request the Kolkata Press Club to prepare a resolution to that effect by forming a technical committee and then we will try to bring a legislation in the Assembly,” said the chief minister at a function organised by the Kolkata Press Club on the occasion of its Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
Miss Banerjee also announced a slew of measures to extend help to journalists.
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The chief minister also announced that acceding to the Press Club’s demands for a permanent structure for the Club, a plot of land had been earmarked for it
“Acceding to the demands made by the Club, we have identified 3. 50 cottah of land at EM Bypass for setting up of a permanent structure of the Press Club. Not only that 10 cottah of land had been kept aside at Rajarhat for building a housing complex for the needy journalists,” announced Miss Banerjee.
The chief minister while turning her focus on the “needy” journalists said that the sprawling 10 cottah of land at Rajarhat that had been kept aside for a housing complex should be a “spacious one” to accommodate a big family for which she advocated “three-roomed flats.”
Meanwhile, the Press Club has announced that 69 journalists more have come under the ambit of state govt pension schemes.
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