By IANS,
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday announced that her government would organise Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary celebrations jointly with the Bangladesh government.
“We will hold celebrations centering Baishe Sravan (Tagore’s death anniversary as per Bengali calendar, which falls Aug 8 this year). We will talk to the Bangladesh government,” Banerjee said.
Ahead of that day, various programmes will be organised at the block, district and state levels.
“Towards the end of the year, we will hold the international Banga Sanskriti Utsab,” the chief minister said.
Banerjee said a committee for celebrating Swami Vivekananda’s 150th birth anniversary will also be formed.
She also said she would expand and strengthen the chief minister’s secretariat.
“A mini CM secretariat will be set up in north Bengal. The people of north Bengal should not feel they are being neglected,” said Banejee, who assumed office earlier Friday.
The chief minister has also asked Chief Secretary Samar Ghosh to form an expert committee on preventing floods and carrying out water harvesting in a big way.
The committee has been asked to give its report in a month.
The government has accorded priority to boosting the health infrastructure.
“We also want to improve quality in education and make it impartial,” she said.