Govt plans job drive in Darjeeling, Maoist-affected districts

The Mamata Banerjee government has decided to provide jobs to the underprivileged in Junglemahal and Darjeeling in a bid to usher in development in these troubled areas.
In a cabinet meeting scheduled early next month, two proposals for recruitment to the constabulary of Kolkata Police are going to be placed.
Three hundred youths from Darjeeling, and 700 youths belonging to Scheduled Castes and Schedules Tribes from the Left Wing Extremism (LWE)-affected areas of West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia districts will be inducted in Kolkata Police for the post of constable.
The police recruitment board will be asked to put up advertisements for applications from interested candidates in these areas
This is the first recruitment drive by the Trinamool Congress-Congress government, aimed at solving the problems in these areas by bringing development.
In the meeting to be held in Patna tomorrow to prepare the approach paper for the 12th Five Year Plan, the West Bengal government will again place the demand for inclusion of Bankura and Purulia districts in the list of 35 districts across the country that have been declared by the Planning Commission as LWE-affected areas. So far, the commission has included only West Midnapore in the list.  
The state government has repeatedly requested the commission to expand the list. “We are again placing the demand because if it is granted, we will get a good package from the Planning Commission for development of these two areas,” an official of the state department of planning and development told The Indian Express. 
The meeting in Patna will be attended by the chief ministers of five states. However, since Mamata’s schedule is packed, Manish Gupta, who is in charge of the planning and development department, will attend the meet. 

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