Focus on youth for next five years: Mamata

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said her government would target the youth for the next five years in the state.

After assuming office for the second time, Banerjee distributed portfolios to her 41 ministers and discussed key points of action in the first meeting with the cabinet of ministers.

“We have to target young generation. Agriculture, industry and employment generation has to be oriented,” she told the media after the meeting.

In addition she said the state chief secretary has been asked to start the formal process of formation of five new districts that were announced before the assembly polls.

“We will speed up the process of creation of five new districts,” she said.

–IANS