Midnapore, Sept. 30 -- West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday announced a major heritage and tourism push for Birsingha, the birthplace of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, promising to turn the village into a destination for visitors, researchers and students while unveiling a slew of infrastructure projects worth several crores.
Speaking at a programme marking Vidyasagar's birth anniversary according to the Bengali calendar, Adhikari said the government would widen roads, create accommodation facilities, expand the library and museum and develop the area's natural surroundings so that the birthplace of the 19th-century social reformer emerges as an attraction for people from across India.
"I want to make Vidyasagar's birthpla...