22.3.11

Mamata's manifesto


Turn Kolkata into an international financial hub
Plan for new airports at Malda, Cooch Behar, Balurghat, Asansol-Durgapur, Midnapore, Birbhum and Sagar
Create 10 more medical colleges, a Matua University, more madarsas and Muslim universities and more Hindi schools
Special development plan for Darjeeling and Jangalmahal
Create jobs through a “revolution in manufacturing”
Restart Kolkata stock exchange
Develop chain of industrial towns
Rationalise state’s taxation structure
Restart closed PSUs. Where it’s not possible, land will be used for new industry
Create policy for attracting pvt sector in healthcare
One multi-speciality hospital in each sub-division
Empower informal sector by granting property rights through common facilities and create social security mechanism,
Restructure state transport undertakings
Make it easy for micro, small and medium businesses by cutting red-tape, making it IT-enabled and setting up single-window payment system
Create 300 new ITIs
Ramp up ayurvedic and herbal medical industry
Promote tourism in a big way, including metropolitan tourism in Kolkata.
Convert Darjeeling into Switzerland of the East and Digha into another Goa
Extend the cluster development drive and value addition for micro, small and medium enterprises
Setting up industrial hub in each district
Rejuvenating tea and jute industry
Spreading IT industry to Haldia, Kharagpur, Durgapur, Kalyani and Siliguri, targeting 25 percent of India’s revenue by 2015
Centre of excellence for research on vaccine and medical breakthroughs.
Modernise and improve facilities at Kolkata Airport
Develop West Bengal as a logistic hub and transport corridor
Allahabad-Haldia river highway project
Food cold chains for horticulture and marine food products
Initiating the blueprint for power sector developments
Turning CU and JU as centre for excellence
BESU will be provided IIT status
Mapping and planning water usage pattern throughout the state.

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