kolkata Confidential

The days of Ram Das Meena,Lands Reforms Commissioner,in the land and land reforms department,seem numbered.

Gag order

The days of Ram Das Meena,Lands Reforms Commissioner,in the land and land reforms department,seem numbered. Last week,Minister for Commerce and Industries Partha Chatterjee gave him a sound dressing down for speaking to the press on the issue of Jindals. You are sending a wrong message to the general public that we are anti-industry,which we are not, Chatterjee reportedly told Meena,who is being criticised in Trinamool circles for speaking to the press too often.

Missing mentors

There is a curious case of two mentors on Information Technology in West Bengal. While the state government proudly announced that Narayan Murthy,former mentor of Infosys,and Sam Pitroda will be mentors of two committees on IT in West Bengal,it has not been able to fix an appointment with them in last two months. The only presence that has been registered was at a programme focussing on IT in West Bengal at a city hotel,where a video-recorded message of Sam Pitroda was played for two consecutive days. However,in the 10-minute message,Pitroda did not mention a word about West Bengal but stressed on taking IT to the panchayats. Now the state government will send a draft on its IT policy to these two doyens of IT industry at least have their stamp on it.

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