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This is an archive article published on February 3, 2000

Oppn attack makes Basu Govt review performance

CALCUTTA, FEBRUARY 2: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has decided to begin a stocktaking of the state government's performance at a...

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CALCUTTA, FEBRUARY 2: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has decided to begin a stocktaking of the state government’s performance at a high-level meeting attended by Chief Minister Jyoti Basu and his senior party colleagues in the ministry.

The meeting assumes significance as it has drawn out a detailed time-bound action plan to implement the state government programmes in the social and economic sectors for the betterment of the socio-economic conditions of the people.

Apparently embarrassed over the Opposition tirade on non-performance’ on the socio-economic sector, as also the huge unemployment, the CPM instructed party leaders in the government to review the performance and expedite the process of plugging the loopholes in the socio-economic sector.

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During the meeting, while Basu stressed the need to complete the developmental programmes with “speed and accountability”, his deputy in the Left Front, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya told his party colleagues in the government to work out an “annualaction plan” for the programmes which should be prepared and listed on the basis of priority.

Basu, calling for review of government’s performances on these developmental programmes, also asked his party colleagues in the government to “embrace a sense of purpose and professionalism.”

Conscious of the state government’s criticism by the Opposition for its failure to arrest unemployment and the decline of the industry in the state, the party leaders in the Government also stressed the need to explain to the people about the “fruits of success during its rule over two decades.”

Hinting at which the party often termed as “bourgeois class-inspired disinformation campaign against the Left Front Government”, Basu and other leaders urged the party members to tell the people about the limitations under which the administration performed all these years.

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The action plan, which plans “to reintroduce reward and censure” the huge state government work-force in terms of performance and non-performance,identified that the area of focus should be “the continuity of land reform, repair of roads, measures to arrest the damages wrought by the floods, village electrification programmes”.

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