Basu museum plans for Indira Bhavan

“We want that the building in which our former chief minister lived so many years be converted to a museum. I am going to bring up the issue in the next Cabinet meeting. If 1,Safdarjung Road, where former PM Indira Gandhi lived and where she was assassinated could be turned into a museum,why can’t Indira Bhavan be accorded that status?” Nashkar said.

The irrigation department is the custodian of Indira Bhavan built in the ‘70s as a temporary residence for the then prime minister late Indira Gandhi,who stayed in Kolkata for a few days to attend an AICC session here. Nashkar has already written to the chief minister about his proposal.

In today’s Cabinet meeting,the state government also decided to set up a medical college at Kalyani in Nadia district and earmarked 72 acres of land for it.

Mega recruitment drive
The state government has also launched a major recruitment drive for giving jobs to about one lakh people of which 45,000 will be primary teachers and 8,000 will be Madhyamik teachers. The state government is also going to regularise 10,000 temporary posts in various departments of the government,according to state Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta who briefed the media after the Cabinet meeting.