The Chandannagar corporation in the beginning of 2023 had taken up the proposal to set up a biogas plant since they found that the amount of biodegradable waste collected from 33 municipal wards were enough to run a biogas plant.
Bengal’s leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari and union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw have accused the Bengal government of rechristening Centre’s schemes and using them under the Trinamool Congress’s banner in the state and not implementing many in the state.
The Mamata firewall against central welfare schemes
The Mamata firewall against central welfare schemes | India Today Insight
Why the West Bengal chief minister is keeping her state away from the Modi government’s welfare benefits
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UPDATED: December 29, 2020 00:31 IST
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a public meeting, in Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal, Dec. 16 (ANI)
On December 25, Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticised the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government, saying it was preventing central benefits, under the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, from reaching the state’s 7 million famers. Modi said the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) as well as the Left parties and the Congress were playing petty politics over the central grant, which entitles farmers to a dole of Rs 6,000 every year.