Kolkata, May 26 (IANS): Annual The West Bengal government has decided to enhance the annual allocation of the North Bengal Development Board to Rs.200 crore from the present Rs.60 crore, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said here Wednesday.
"Allocation of Rs.60 crore for the six districts in North Bengal was too meagre. So we have increased it by over three times," Banerjee told mediapersons here after a cabinet meeting.
She said her government has also decided to set up a chief minister's secretariat in north Bengal.
Banerjee appealed to Indian Adminsitrative Service and Indian Police Service officers who have left the state in recent years to return to West Bengal.
"Whoever is willing, we will bring them back," she said.
She said a delegation of the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha, which is fighting for the creation of a Gorkhaland state in north Bengal, will meet her at the state secretariat Thursday.