Kolkata, Nov 18: The West Bengal Government, through its Food and Supplies Department, has decided to buy seven crore jute
bags from the state’s jute manufacturers, through the Jute Corporation
of India.
These bags would be supplied to the state’s rice mills, for
them to supply rice to the government. Jute is a
traditional industrial sector of Bengal, which has been neglected
for long by the Central Government despite
repeated requests by the Bengal
Government to help the jute farmers and manufacturers. This latest
move by the State Government is the result of Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee forming a Group of Ministers to
look into ways of ameliorating
the condition of those involved with the jute industry, be they
jute farmers, jute mill workers or others. Of the seven
lakh jute bags to be bought, the government would buy 1.2 lakh for transporting the rice from the kharif growing
season, at a cost of Rs 300 to 325 crore. UNI
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