Bengal govt will give land pattas to all refugees, Mamta Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has asserted that she would not allow "forcible displacement" of any refugee from land owned by central government organisations, After the Cabinet meeing in Kolkata on Thursday, she saud that we have got information that at some places in Bankura and Howrah, central government organisations have put up eviction notices. But our government would not allow any such thing. We will give them (refugees) dalil (official document) in accordance with their merit. The chief minister said that her dispensation has regularised 213 refugee colonies over the last two years, and issued a total of 2,79,000 pattas.

She stated that the cabinet has also given its nod to grant freehold rights to the unauthorised inhabitants of Kolkata Municipal Corporation's ward number 109. "Not a single colony will be left out. We are doing it for everyone, be it those living on state government land, on private property or on land belonging to central government organisations, like the railways," the TMC supremo underlined. All refugee colonies in the state  will get such rights, she said.The cabinet also sanctioned old age and widow pension for at least 15 lakh people, who had applied for it, she said, adding that the disbursement process will start from Friday.