Midnapore, May 17 -- Alleging that Bengal's education system had been "reduced to ruins" and several national highways were deliberately downgraded to facilitate liquor businesses, West Bengal Minister Dilip Ghosh on Sunday accused the previous Trinamool Congress regime of corruption and misuse of public infrastructure for "vested interests".
Addressing a gathering in the railway town of Kharagpur under West Midnapore district, Ghosh claimed that the state's academic backbone had been "systematically destroyed", with acute shortages of teachers and non-teaching staff crippling schools across Bengal.
"There is virtually no education system left in Bengal. The entire structure has to be rebuilt under the National Education Policy," he said,...