Hours after the agitating junior doctors of Bengal accused the State of submitting false information in the Supreme Court regarding the progress of infrastructural facilities in the Government hospitals and medical colleges, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee directed the State officials to hasten up the infrastructural projects.

"The Chief Minister has held a meeting with the senior officials including the Chief Secretary and enquired about the progress in installing the security infrastructure in the government hospitals and medical colleges," officials said adding Banerjee also told officials to ensure that the works were completed in time.

The State Government earlier told the Supreme Court that barring RG Kar Medical College where an on-duty lady-doctor was brutally raped and murdered in the morning of August 9 --- triggering country-wide protests --- in most of the medical colleges and government hospitals about 95-98 percent of infrastructural work had been completed.

The Government had been asked to take adequate security measures including construction of on duty restrooms, washrooms for doctors, installation of CCTV camera apart from posting of security personnel etc in the State hospitals, following the RG Kar incident.

The junior doctors --- some of whom were sitting on an indefinite fast in support of their demand --- earlier accused the State of submitting false information to the Supreme Court saying unlike what was submitted before the Apex Court about completion of 95-98 percent infrastructural work in many hospitals nothing had been done.

"In many colleges restrooms or washrooms are non-functional … only a lip service has been done in the name of installing CCTV cameras … in colleges like SSKM and other hospitals the cameras have been installed on a temporary basis as the contractors have been told fix their cameras for 45 days only," doctors said adding, "neither the CCTV cameras have adequate data storage capacity nor there is a monitoring system in place … there has been a dozen cases of hospital staff including doctors getting attacked and beaten up by the public not only in the districts but also in Kolkata which is an adequate instance of how foolproof the security system is working."