GG News Bureau
Kolkata, 1st August. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Monday that there will be a Cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday (August 3).
“We will do a reshuffle on Wednesday. There will be 4-5 new faces,” said Banerjee.
This comes shortly after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested former minister Partha Chatterjee in connection with the SSC recruitment fraud.
Chatterjee was in charge of the ministries of industry, commerce, and enterprises, information technology and electronics, parliamentary affairs and public enterprises, and industrial reconstruction.
Following his arrest on Thursday, the CM assumed command of the departments. Banerjee now oversees 11 departments, including Partha Chatterjee’s four.
“Many of them are writing a lot. We don’t have a plan to dissolve the whole ministry and form a new one. Yes, there will be a reshuffle. We lost ministers Subrata Mukherjee, Sadhan Pande. Partha da is in jail so all their work has to be done. Not possible for me to handle alone,” added Banerjee.
The West Bengal government of Mamata Banerjee today decided to carve out seven new districts from the existing 23 districts through boundary delimitation for better administration and development of the areas.
The seven new districts are Sunderban, Ichhamati, Ranaghat, Bishnupur, Jangipur, Behrampur, and Basirhat, according to the government.
“Earlier there were 23 districts in Bengal; now it has been increased to 30. The 7 new districts include – Sunderban, Ichhemati, Ranaghat, Bishnupur, Jangipur, Behrampur and one more district will be named in Basirhat,” said CM Mamata Banerjee.
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