WB govt provides food security to 90% of people: Mamata
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said her government was providing food security to 90% people in the state in a scheme under which food grains at Rs. 2 per kg or half the market price are given to the beneficiaries. "We also provide rice and wheat through PDS to tea garden workers and to the Toto tribe in north Bengal," she said. Here's more.
WB witnessed a mass movement in 1958 by the CPI
Mamata also said that special assistance was also being given to the people of once Maoist-hit Jangalmahal, hill areas, cyclone 'Aila' affected the region and Singur. West Bengal had witnessed a mass movement in late 1958 by the then undivided CPI and other left groups protesting against the food crisis. The movement for food (Khadya Andolon) reached its peak in August 1959.
