Mamata Banerjee announces housing programme for tea workers
(WorldNews India)

Kolkata:�West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced a slew of measures for the people ahead of the 2021 state assembly polls and said that her government will build brick houses for at least 3,694 workers in seven sick tea gardens in Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar districts under the ‘Chai Sundari’ scheme. Banerjee, in another announcement said that her government will regularise all refugee colonies in West Bengal, including those on land belonging to the state and the central governments. From now on self attestation would be accepted in all government offices even for issuance of caste certificates, she said at an administrative review meeting with officials of...