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Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee hailed West Bengal arsenic the “destination for industry” and said that her authorities volition guarantee 24 hours powerfulness proviso for the “next 100 years” if voted backmost to powerfulness for the 4th consecutive time.
The Trinamool Congress supremo released the party’s manifesto for the Assembly predetermination connected Friday (March 20, 2026) successful Kolkata.
Ms. Banerjee, who is aiming for a 4th consecutive term, is wooing voters with what she called ‘Doshta Angikaar’ oregon 10 commitments that scope from concern infrastructure, upgraded schools, amended healthcare and 24/7 powerfulness proviso among others.
The enactment manifesto said that West Bengal volition go eastbound India’s concern gateway with state-of-the-art logistics and concern infrastructure and a planetary commercialized centre. The authorities volition walk ₹30,000 crore for the payment of farmers and basal by the families of farmers and the landless.
“We person go a cement and leather hub. We are fig 1 successful them, and fig 1 successful MSMEs,” she said, adding that 1.5 crore radical enactment successful MSMEs successful the State and 7 lakh successful the leather industry.
Ms. Banerjee said if the Trinamool wins the elections, to beryllium held successful 2 phases connected April 23 and April 29, the caller authorities volition widen the State’s marquee Lakshmir Bhandar strategy (monthly allowance for women) for life. At present, women aged betwixt 25 advertisement 60 get ₹1,500 (from wide category) and ₹1,700 (from Scheduled Tribes and Schedule Caste categories). The Chief Minister had accrued the allowance by ₹500 per period successful February.
She said that the ₹1,500 allowance nether Yubasathi for younker aged betwixt 21 and 40 is “pocket money” and volition enactment them till they get a job. “This allowance volition proceed with different scholarships,” she said. The strategy provides the allowance to those who person passed the Madhyamik introspection (Class 10) and volition beryllium fixed for 5 years oregon till the beneficiary finds a job, whichever is earlier.
Promising 24-hour powerfulness supply, the Chief Minister said, “Once Deocha Pachami ember mining task starts, it volition supply powerfulness to Bengal for the adjacent 100 years. We volition springiness this acquisition to the adjacent generations.”
Work connected the task successful Birbhum territory began successful February with basalt mining. It is the archetypal measurement to marque the ember excavation operational arsenic the ember reserve is located nether a furniture of basalt whose thickness is betwixt 100 metres and 350 metres.
The Trinamool supremo said that her authorities volition upgrade and modernise schools successful the State and absorption connected e-learning initiatives. “I privation to enlistee teachers, but the Opposition ever goes to the tribunal and files cases. This stalls recruitment,” she said.
The Chief Minister said that the authorities volition supply lodging for each and widen piped h2o proviso to each households successful the State. Besides these, she volition rotation retired initiatives to instrumentality attraction of the aged whose children unrecorded elsewhere for work. “We volition basal by our elder citizens,” she said.
Ms. Banerjee promised to make “seven to 10” caller districts, and respective blocks and municipalities for easiness of administration.
She besides promised to instrumentality healthcare to the people’s homes and announced the “Duare Chikitsa” (healthcare astatine the doorsteps) initiave. The West Bengal authorities already runs a “Duare Sarkar” programme that helps radical get entree to authorities services and payment schemes astir astatine their doorsteps.
