SIR Deleted Won't Get Welfare Money, Says BJP Govt, But Cloud Over Those 'at Tribunals' |
Kolkata: While the new Bharatiya Janata Party government in Bengal has stressed that it will continue to provide benefits to recipients of Trinamool Congress-era welfare schemes, minister Agnimitra Paul noted to reporters a day ago that those who have been struck off the voter rolls in the special intensive revision will not be receiving benefits.
Paul, who has taken charge as minister of women and children’s development, told reporters on May 11 that the government has decided to do an assessment of names which have been deleted from the rolls.
“We will do an analysis before June 1. Those whose names have been struck off, if they are receiving [money under the schemes] then they are not supposed to. Someone who is dead is not supposed to get it. Someone who is not a citizen of this country, they are not supposed to get it. So we will do this........