State govt to create 6,900 posts in police and infrastructure for CBI courts

The West Bengal government today decided to create 6,900 posts in the state Home department, including 668 in Naxal-hit Jhargram police district and infrastructure for three CBI courts. Commerce and Industries minister Partha Chatterjee briefing reporters after a cabinet meeting said that of the 6,900 posts in the Home (police) department, 1,740 would be recruited in the first phase.

The cabinet also decided to provide infrastructure for setting up three special CBI courts. Two CBI courts would be set up this month and another in December, the minister said.

Chatterjee said that the state government felt that there was scope for expansion in the working of the CBI in the state.

He said that 700 new posts would be created in the Finance department which would help increase revenue collection and strengthen infrastructure.

He said that a committee headed by Chief Secretary Samar Ghosh would monitor the implementation of the NREGA scheme in the state. The committee, he said, would find out lapses and explore the scope of expansion and enforce financial control.