Bengal Election: Mamata Manifesto Promises Annual Income For Female Heads Of Family

Bengal Election TMC manifesto highlights: Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday released the election manifesto for the Trinamool Congress (TMC) party, with a focused ten-point breakdown of "ongikars" (promises) that form her vision for West Bengal if her party comes to power in the 2021 state assembly elections.

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I humbly present my 10 ‘Ongikars’ to build a stronger & more prosperous Bengal so that the wheels of development keep moving forward in the third term of our government. The aim is just one, to sustain Bengal as one of the leading states in the country. (1/4) pic.twitter.com/K0xNtrt7GB

— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) March 17, 2021 manifesto is divided into ten sub-heads: economy, social justice and security, youth, food for all, farming and agriculture, industries, health, education, housing, and electricity, roads, water.

Under strategies of social justice, the party pledges ensuring steady financial streams for women in Bengal, with monthly income support to female heads of family across 1.6 crore households, at a rate of Rs 500 to general category families and Rs 1000 to SC/ST families.

"For the first time, female heads of 1.6 Cr households will benefit from a monthly Basic Income Support scheme, students will be able to take loans upto ₹10 Lakh using Student Credit Card at 4% interest rate only," Banerjee says.

The manifesto concentrates schemes for the youth on promises of over 5 lakh job creations annually, and for marginalised sections, provision of basic amenities and household incomes led by economic prosperity aimed at making Bengal the fifth-richest state in India.

I humbly present my 10 ‘Ongikars’ to build a stronger & more prosperous Bengal so that the wheels of development keep moving forward in the third term of our government. The aim is just one, to sustain Bengal as one of the leading states in the country. (1/4) pic.twitter.com/K0xNtrt7GB

— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) March 17, 2021

Bengal Election TMC Manifesto Highlights

• 75 crore subsidised meals through 2500 'Maa Canteens' across state
• 5 lakh new jobs per year to halve unemployment rates
• Education spending to be increased from 2.7 percent to 4 percent of GDP
• 'Khadya Sathi' service to provide doorstep delivery of ration to 1.5 crore households
• 5 lakh urban habitations to be built to bring down slum population from 7 per cent to 3.65 percent
• Pipe drinking clean water facility to be upped from 26 percent to 100 percent coverage