Panels to probe graft, crime against women
Kolkata, May 19 -- The chief minister Suvendu Adhikari-led West Bengal government on Monday set up two commissions, headed by two retired judges of the Calcutta high court, to probe into allegations of institutional corruption and crime against women during the 15-year-old regime of the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
The government has also discontinued financial assistance based on religious categorisation.
"In the run up to the assembly elections we had made two commitments - to set up two commissions to probe into allegations of institutional corruption and atrocities against women. Today we have set up the two commissions," the chief minister said.
The chief minister said while the commission probing into alleged institutional corruption will be chaired by retired justice Biswajit Basu with senior IPS officer K Jayaraman as its member secretary. The commission probing into crime against women would be chaired by retired justice Samapti Chatterjee with IPS officer Damayanti Sen as its member secretary. CM Adhikari said both the panels would start working from June 1 and it would start sending their recommendations within a month. The commission on women's safety would look into pending FIRs (related to crime against women) and the recommendations made by various commissions, Adhikari said. "Why isn't the BJP forming such commissions in BJP-ruled states such as Uttar Pradesh where the rate of such crimes is much higher than Bengal?" TMC spokesperson Jay Prakash Majumdar said.
The state government also announced the formation of the Seventh Pay Commission to restructure the salaries of its employees, assistance to women and scrapped emoluments to religious groups after the second Cabinet meeting on Monday....
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