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The Trinamool Congress has promised to bring aesculapian attraction to the doorsteps of voters successful West Bengal, arsenic portion of 10 commitments highlighted successful its canvass manifesto released by enactment chairperson and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Friday (March 20, 2026), conscionable a period earlier the Assembly election.
This committedness of duare chikitsa (doorstep aesculapian care) is simply a follow-up to erstwhile schemes by the Trinamool Congress authorities to supply duare sarkar and duare ration (doorstep governance and foodgrains), successful a bid to decentralise authorities benefits.
Ms. Banerjee besides vowed to make 7 caller districts successful West Bengal to easiness medication successful the State.
Women, youth, elders
The 10 commitments see the overmuch publicised Lakshmir Bhandar scheme, whose entitlements to 2.4 crore mediocre women were hiked by ₹500 per period successful past month’s State budget, and the newer Banglar Yuva Sathi strategy for unemployed younker aged betwixt 21 and 40 years, which has already recieved 80 lakh applicants.
“We supply ₹1,500 per period to women nether Lakshmir Bhandar. This comes to ₹18,000 a year. Similarly ₹1,500 per period nether Yuva Sathi volition proceed with different scholarships,” Ms. Banerjee said, releasing the manifesto astatine her residence successful southbound Kolkata’s Kalighat.
Uninterrupted aged property pension enactment to each existing beneficiaries is besides a caller inaugural successful the manifesto.
Vows enactment for landless farmers
The Trinamool Congress chairperson promised a pucca location to each family, with a slogan of “nischit abasan (assured housing)” and cleanable piped drinking h2o nether the committedness of “ghore ghore nal (a pat for each household)”.
She besides promised that if her enactment returns to powerfulness successful the State for a 4th term, it volition suggest a ₹30,000 crore agriculture fund to enactment landless farmers and boost the agrarian economy.
Other promises by the Trinamool supremo included upgrading concern infrastructure truthful that the State emerges arsenic a gateway of commercialized successful eastbound India, and holistic infrastructure upgradation of each authorities schools. On the manufacture front, she claimed that the State has emerged arsenic a cement and leather hub, and added 1.5 crore radical moving successful the MSME sector.
‘Colourful dreams’
The Chief Minister said that the manifesto has been printed successful six antithetic languages, utilizing the slogan ‘Sobar janye dorkar Trinamool sarkar (Trinamool authorities for everyone)’. She besides ridiculed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s slogan ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’ connected improvement for all, claiming that successful reality, it has turned retired to beryllium ‘Sabka Vinash (disaster for all).
Bharatiya Janta Party State president Samik Bhattacharya termed the promises successful the Trinamool manifesto arsenic “colourful dreams”. Criticising the duare chikitsa scheme, helium highlighted issues successful authorities hospitals and the mishap astatine RG Kar Medical College wherever a antheral died wrong the assistance connected Friday (March 20, 2026).
