Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced a string of measures “in order to create jobs and revolutionise the State’s socio-economic profile.”
Launching a mega rural drinking water project, she said “our Government is undertaking a drinking water project worth Rs 58,000 crore for the rural areas that will benefit 2 crore people.” Apart from the existing “Jal Dharo, Jal Bharo” scheme that entails digging and maintenance of water bodies hundreds of miles of drinking water pipeline will be fixed in the rural areas under the new project she said iterating “apart from reaching fresh drinking water to the rural people it will also provide jobs to thousands of youth.”She said “the new project is revolutionary in the sense that it will save the rural women the time and labour involved in bringing drinking water from far off areas apart from preserving ground water.” The new project is likely to change the lives of lakhs of people living in the arid western districts of the States including Purulia, Bankura, Asansol region.
“The scheme will take five year to complete and revolutionise the socio-economic condition of the State,” she said adding the new scheme will be christened Jal Swapna.
Apart from the water pipeline scheme the Chief Minister also announced the launching of a fully government created “self scanner” mobile App for the netizens.
Reminding what Gopal Krishna Gokhale said about what “Bengal thinkstoday rest of India thinks tomorrow” Banerjee said “this is the perhaps the first self scanner mobile App or SS App which will help the mobile users to scan their documents, and edit them for free and without any fear of one’s information being stolen as the doc will not be linked to any server.”
In an apparent reference to the BJP’s “Swadeshi slogan,” the Chief Minister said the App had been created by the State’s Information Technology Department. “This App is the real example of Swadeshi and does not rely or is connected to any outside thing.”