West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has called upon the Centre to give fertilizer subsidy to farmers and flayed the Left parties for caving in to the UPA government’s decision in 2009 to decontrol the fertilizer prices.
The decontrol of prices paved the way for increase in the prices of the vital agricultural inputs, she added.
Banerjee was in Nadia district holding development review meeting with district officials. She also attended a programme to launch some local trains.
She expressed displeasure over the way the three-tier panchayat system in the state was functioning and held the communists responsible for making the zilla parishads non-functional.
