West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee requested private schools to start summer vacation from this week. She requested private schools to shut schools after celebrating birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore on May 9.
CM convened meeting
Banerjee convened a meeting with top officials of state administration and West Bengal police and take account of the state security and intelligence after “operation sindur” which attacked terrorist hideouts in Pakistan and PoK. Before that she was present in a meeting with Union Home minister Amit Shah with all Chief Ministers of bordering states of the country. She was present in the meeting along with Chief secretary Manoj Pant and DG of West Bengal police Rajeev Kumar.
Mamata Bannerjee attends meeting with Amit Shah
Mamata Banerjee virtually attended a meeting with the Chief Ministers of the bordering states on Wednesday afternoon. Apart from West Bengal, Jammu -Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Sikkim were present at the meeting. According to sources, the Pakistani army started firing on the border area shortly after the ‘Operation Sindur’. In the meeting, Shah ordered the civilians to be removed from the border area of Kashmir as soon as possible. At the meeting, he said that the safety of the residents of the border area is priority to India.
What CM said
She said, “We have talked in details with all department what is to be done in this situation. We will fight this situation against terrorism with Central government for the country. We should alert that there should be proper coordination between us. We will work unitedly. Our respective department will constant monitor on the situation. We will have to more alert as two-three country’s border is with us.”
However, Chief Minister also said, “I would request people that not to be panicked. There will many news come which are false and spreading rumour. We should alert on that. We should not rely on all news. Central government already issued necessary guidelines on this. Those who will not maintain that, security agency can take action against them. In this situation, we should fight unitedly to save our country.”
“We already announced summer vacation for government schools. I would request all english medium schools and private schools to shut for the summer vacation. I am not giving any written guideline but if summer vacation will be announced, that will be good for the children. They can start their summer vacation after celebrating Rabindranath Tagore bithday which is on May 9,” said Chief Minister.
CM will have meeting with dealers to stop black marketing
Chief Minister on Wednesday said, she will have a meeting with the dealers on Thursday at Nabanna on the black marketing. She said, “Black marketing may start to take advantage of this situation. Some people will try to take advantage of this situation. We will have meeting on Thursday with dealers and sort out a mechanism to stop black marketing.”
