Mamata felicitates state board toppers
Kolkata, June 11: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee felicitated the rank holders of the secondary and higher secondary education boards here on Monday.
"It is not easy to be a part of the merit list. It's your awareness, knowledge, intellect and power that has led you towards a new path of success.
"Some of you will be doctors, engineers, professors, scientist and some will opt for other fields. Nowadays there is a lot scope," Banerjee told the toppers of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) and the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHS).
Talking about opportunities in the state, the Chief Minister mentioned that 22 new universities and around 47 colleges have come up in her tenure. There are six more universities in the pipeline.
Also, seven medical colleges have been built and 13 more are under construction.
"The seats in the medical colleges have been increased. I think there should be more seats. But it is not easy to become a doctor, it requires a lot of hard work," she said.
One needs to work hard in every field -- be it science or arts, she said pointing to WBCHS topper Granthan Sengupta who secured 99.2 per cent in the Arts Department.
Banerjee congratulated Sanjibani Debnath, the topper of WBBSE Class 10 exam and all other rank holders. She eventually read out the names of the toppers including Sirshendu Saha and Mayurakshi Sarkar and other top ten rank holders.
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BJP using women's quota bill as front to pass Delimitation Bill that will break India: Mamata
Cooch Behar (WB) (PTI): Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday alleged the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre was using the proposed amendment to the women's quota law in Parliament as a front for the Delimitation Bill that would "break the country into pieces".
The TMC will fight this Central government's move at every step, she asserted at her party's poll rally here.
The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to tweak the women's quota law, along with the Delimitation Bill and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, to implement the proposed amended women's quota law, in the Union territories of Delhi, Puducherry and Jammu and Kashmir, were introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
According to the Constitution amendment bill, Lok Sabha seats will be increased to a maximum of 850 from the current 543 to "operationalise" the women's reservation law before the 2029 parliamentary polls, following a delimitation exercise based on the 2011 Census.
Seats will also be increased in state and Union territory assemblies to accommodate 33 per cent reservation for women.
Opposing the Centre's move, Banerjee alleged that "the BJP brought the Delimitation Bill while keeping the women's reservation bill at the front".
"The BJP is trying to increase the number of seats in the Lok Sabha to nearly 850 through the Delimitation Bill. It will break the country into pieces," the TMC supremo said.
She also alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not speaking the truth about the development of north Bengal at a BJP rally last week.
"The prime minister said nothing was done for the development of north Bengal. But we spent Rs 1.72 lakh crore on the development of the region," Banerjee said and asked Modi to cross-check data before making such remarks.
