The development of West Bengal: Contextualizing different strategies adopted by Mamata Banerjee’s government

Abstract

The study explores different schemes and strategies adopted by Trinamool Congress (TMC) government that enhanced the process of socio-economic and educational development in West Bengal. In this regard it has found that TMC supremo Mamta Banerjee played a significant role for the development of West Bengal through providing free rations and free healthcare facilities to the poor people. The government had focused on the development of women through supplying economic support to impoverished families. Mamta Banerjee led TMC government also launched many scholarship’s schemes for the development women education in Bengal. Mamta Banerjee’s different social-welfare agendas enabled people from economically deprived classes to reap all the benefits and enhance their standard of living with better subsidised education and health accessibility, grants for women for their empowerment, and economic development. The study attempts to examine how the strategies and schemes adopted by TMC government for the welfare of Bengal counter the existing discourses regarding development of West Bengal under the leadership of Mamta Banerjee.