Alleging that the Centre is not releasing funds in the state, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today advised setting up a "crisis management fund", to pay salaries to people working under the 100 days work MGNREGA scheme.
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NEW DELHI: Most people see conduct of polls in Bengal as a tough challenge given the politically surcharged atmosphere in the state. But some tough women officers in charge of key districts are shouldering the responsibility of election management with a steely resolve.
In the last two phases on April 1 and 6, some women IAS officers who have held fort as district election officers (DEO) include Antara Acharya in South 24 Parganas, Mukta Arya in Howrah, P Deepa Priya in Hooghly, Smita Pandey in Purba Medinipur, Rashmi Kamal in Pashchim Medinipur and K Radhika Aiyar in Bankura.
Leading by example is Mukta Arya, the DM and DEO of Howrah, who lost her father a day before polling in her district. In fact, when TOI reached out to her on Thursday, Arya politely informed this reporter that she was in the middle of immersion of her father’s ashes and would revert later. And so she did, telling TOI the sudden demise of her father came on a day that started with him giving her a pep-talk